MusicLM: Generating Music from Text
This is unbelievable. I would have never expected AI to take the jobs of creatives first, but here we are. Artists and musicians can create much better work than AI, but the AI creates consistent works usable for people who <i>aren’t</i> artists, and need assets for their projects — whether video games, prototyping, storyboarding, etc.<p>It is going to be interesting to see artists revert to being a no-revenue passion again instead of being well compensated. That “well compensated” did not last long for them and I feel for the struggle. At the same time, a part of me feels art has no place being motivated by money anyway. Perhaps this change will restore the balance.  Artists will need to get real jobs again like the rest of us and fund their art as a side project.<p>I hope an open model for music generation will be soon to follow, it will really be a big deal.