A snapshot, using data, comparing the worlds of traditional musicians and AI designers. The number of people using AI music tools is immense, far outnumbering traditional musicians by millions. 3 types of Music Creators:

• Traditional Musicians
• AI Music Designers
• Hybrids

There is a lot of tension between trad musicians and AI designers. But, though probably a lot of traditional musicians like myself will disagree, I've come to realize that those using AI to create music for the first time in their lives, are not the enemy. And that AI is already very entrenched in trad music making, regardless of what trad musicians say.

We should continue the fight against the very small minority of AI users who are corrupt and are gaming the system, and corporate exploitation, but for the most part, we should welcome the humans behind the AI music, and draw them into understanding the music they create, and maybe show them how to play guitar (which trends show gen-zers are doing). Sure they'll continue to make bad music, I.E slop, but a lot of people think the music of the 80s was also slop, to which I contributed with my synths and mullet haircut ;) Slop has always been around.

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The frequency of music companies + AI announcements is increasing exponentially, daily.

It's overwhelming and almost impossible to keep up.

The Big Question: How will musicians be paid?!

These are my guesses, hypotheticals, and conjectures based on what I've read. We're starting to get hints how the pennies might trickle down. The labels say don't worry kid, we'll take care of you.

The only certainty being labels are excited and beginning to "envision how they’ll get their beaks wet" "But as for the dry, chapped beaks of powerless copyright stakeholders—small-time artists, writers, and creators—concerned that their work will simply be made redundant or irrelevant in this weird new content universe, it’s still not at all clear how those beaks benefit from any of this." Mike Pearl

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Here are 10 misconceptions I've read in comments across social media.

These are my observations and opinions.

You can jump to the part you'd be interested in.

00:00 Intro

00:30 There are established laws, passed by Congress, that regulates ai.

01:29 The government of the US cares about artists and musicians and is working on laws regulating AI and copyrights.

03:34 What is stated in the copyright office reports is permanent and binding.

04:19 The law states that only human created parts of a song can be copyrighted…any parts generated by AI isn’t protected.

05:07 Copyright law states you can’t copyright a song if you use AI for any of the parts.

05:36 Music created by only using prompts can’t be copyrighted

07:13 There are specific guidelines about AI and fair use. 07:40 Composers will be paid if AI is trained on their music.

09:31 Music companies are only looking out for their artists when it comes to AI music.

10:23 The courts conclusion about the generative AI case of Thaler v. Perlmutter, is fixed law.

11:15 Congress needs to get off its ass!

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