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People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage (sh.itjust.works)
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There was (and still somewhat is) a big uproar about auto tune usage in music. But guess what? You haven't heard a song NOT using it since at least 1998. Unless youre friends with every sound engineer out there and can ask them specifically if an artist did or did not use it (unrealistic).

The same will happen with ai. People wont notice, and it will go on to be the norm, with a very small pocket of purists.

ITT: People are really butthurt that their favorite artist uses autotune/pitch correction, and they have no idea how mixing and production work. These will be the same people listening to ai music in 5 years with no knowledge of it. So my prediction is correct.

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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You still need to actually be a decent singer to not make autotuning sound terrible. Also, big singers will have audio editors to clean up issues too. Partial use of generative AI will require the presence of basic skills to make everything work.

I don't think the same can happen with fully AI generated music. Unless it is stated immediately that they are doing it, people are eventually gonna find out that the artist is not actually singing and find it a scam. If they don't show themself in social media, tours, and interviews to hide this element as much as possible they are most likely going to remain niche.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

No matter how good your singing is. Autotune makes your music completely trash

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works -4 points 5 days ago

Right, thats what im saying. Its already edited to death now, so the change to ai music won't even be large, because everything is already quantized and pitch matched.

Its just a depressing dystopian future that the majority of humans will be listening to and enjoying music made by billionaires with data centers.