In 2021, I wholeheartedly conceded to AI.
How should amateur musicians face this era? Personally, I believe everyone should just enjoy the process without taking it too seriously. As long as the work is sincere, if it's pleasing to the ear, it's popular; if it's rebellious, it's art. At this point, we can't ignore AI. AI music is a product of big data, and in the future, it can truly grasp the direction of public taste. Therefore, the ultimate realm of popular music, this vampire behemoth, is inevitably the world of AI music. Creative musicians work hard and pioneer genres in various fields. But once you show a tendency towards popularity, commercial music giants with AI omnipotence will discover you in big data, quickly dissect, learn, and replicate your success. It's not just replication; they may also combine other popular trends to create works that surpass yours.So, the future of pop music belongs to AI.
The cultivators of music genres (like rock) belong to a class of hard workers. These hard workers don't feel the hardship because their joy comes from the music itself, which has little to do with commerce. But once they start craving commercial success, once they show their heads, it's predictable that their creativity will quickly be drained by commercial AI. Therefore, the topic of art and popularity in the future becomes whether you love music itself or being successful. Regrettably, in the AI era, these two may not intersect much.
In 2021, I was shocked by AI, but my go-with-the-flow personality determined my laid-back attitude. I became a happy, desireless, and demandless amateur player. But Drake, a name known to all pop music listeners, is a commercially successful artist who has already been cloned by AI. After AI, Drake's cloned works are highly mature, so much so that Drake's company had to legally prohibit them. But prohibition is very difficult, so much so that YouTube brazenly broadcasts them.In other words, if AI is willing to spend more time studying any star, their work style, music genes, accompaniment characteristics, singing characteristics, voice, and even worldview can be cloned by AI in full detail. Yes, including singing. Unexpectedly, in just two years, the prediction has begun to come true. Now, for any pop song, how much percent is created by AI, the audience can't tell. Now, even the voice can't be distinguished whether it's a real person or not. The essence of future art or play will gradually diverge from commercial behavior. Because commerce relies more and more on AI, art and play are human nature.
After the split, artists and players must learn to lay back, learn to be desireless and demandless, learn to have the psychological quality of playing happily even without the possibility of commercial success. Otherwise, their will suffer.To become a professional artist, either join AI and become a screw in the AI machine, or have your own money, develop your own style for pure interest, and wait for it to be cloned by AI instantly after successful listing. In short, the future of music professionals is very dark.
Coincidentally, those artists studying graphic art are actually worse off than music professionals. I'm referring to commercial graphic art. Their jobs have been eliminated, their majors have been cancelled by universities. It has happened. It is happening.How long can text art last? How long can video art last? As long as it makes money... Art is art, only when it's played playfully and sincerely.
2021年，我对AI的全身心地认怂。
业余音乐玩家怎么面对这个时代,个人认为，大家玩玩，不必较真。只要作品真诚，动听了就是流行，叛逆了就是艺术。这个时候就不得不提起AI了，AI音乐是大数据的产物，未来可以真正地把握大众口味的走向。那么流行音乐这个吸血鬼巨无霸，最终无非就是AI音乐的天下。创意的音乐家，在各个领域辛苦耕耘，开拓类型。而一旦你有了流行倾向，拥有AI全能力的商业音乐巨头，就会在大数据中发现你，进而，迅速肢解学习，并复制成功。不仅是复制，可能还会结合其他流行趋势，做出超越你的作品。
所以，未来流行乐属于AI。
音乐类型的耕耘者（比如摇滚）属于苦逼一类。这些苦逼，并不觉得苦，因为他们的乐趣来自音乐本身，和商业关系不大。可是一旦他们开始渴望商业成功了。一旦露头, 可想而知, 他们的创造力会很快被商业AI榨干。因此，艺术和流行的话题到了未来，就变成了，你是喜欢音乐本身，还是喜欢成功。很遗憾，AI时代,这两者可能不会有太大的交集了。
2021年的老枫看到AI已经恐惧了，但是随遇而安的个性决定了，我的躺平态度。做一个happy的无欲无求的业余玩家。但是Drake，听流行乐的都知道的名字，他是商业成功的艺术家。已经被AI clone。AI后，drake克隆的作品，高度成熟，以至于drake的公司必须通过法律手段禁止。但是禁止是很困难的。以至于youtube堂而皇之地播放
也就是说， 如果AI愿意，多花点时间研究任何一个明星，他的作品风格，音乐基因，伴奏特点，演唱特点，嗓音，甚至人生观都可以被AI淋漓尽致滴克隆。是的, 包括唱. 没想到仅仅两年，预测就开始实现了。现在任何一首流行音乐，有多少percent是AI创作，听众是听不出来了。现在，连嗓音都听不出来了是不是真人。未来艺术或者玩乐的本质，必将逐步与商业行为背道而驰。因为商业越来越依赖AI，艺术和玩乐才是人本身。分裂之后，艺术家，玩家必须学会躺平， 学会无欲无求。学会即便没有商业成功的可能性， 也照样玩的开心的心理素质。否则精神是很痛苦的。
想成为专业，要么加入AI，成为AI机器的一颗螺丝钉， 要么自己有钱，为了兴趣自己开发自己的风格，等成功上市后，瞬间被AI克隆掉。总之，音乐专业前途很暗黑啊。
无独有偶，学习平面艺术的那些艺术家，其实比音乐专业更惨，我指的是商业平面艺术，他们的工作被干掉,他们的专业被大学取消。已经发生。正在发生.
文字艺术，又能坚持多久？视频艺术又能坚持多久？只要是赚钱的...艺术只有玩的时候，才是艺术。
