MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation
(This is not meant to be an anti-ai-generated-art rant.  It&#x27;s coming whether we like it or not.  But some of the motives in this thread confuse me.)<p>Music producer here with an honest question to those saying &quot;this will provide me with a simple soundtrack&#x2F;background music for $PROJECT&quot;<p>Have any of you checked out &#x2F; made offers on music production subreddits? Or other music subreddits? various music production discords?  Elsewhere on the internet?<p>If so, could you say what your experience has been?<p>I ask because the music production scene is like...ridiculously saturated, and  it&#x27;s almost a meme in the producer community how hard it is to make even a buck producing.  I suspect that there are a significant number of producers who would be happy to take your &quot;prompt&quot; for a small fee.  Yes, I understand 1) free and 2) immediate is convenient, but isn&#x27;t 1) relatively inexpensive and 2) whatever advantage intent in construction gives good too?<p>I&#x27;m willing to admit that I&#x27;m missing something here, but I&#x27;d love it if someone could enlighten me.<p>While I&#x27;m asking follow ups, to all the folks who love digging for new music <i>so much</i> that they&#x27;re considering turning to prompting AIs, I&#x27;d be seriously surprised if you&#x27;ve really checked out all the stuff that is coming out from new producers (again, reddit, soundcloud, etc).  Another meme in the producer community is how one spends hundreds&#x2F;thousands of hours perfecting ones craft, and dozens of hours working on a track, only for that track to get like 5 plays on soundcloud and negligible engagement elsewhere.  Are music consumers <i>really</i> that desperate for new tunes? Frankly a lot of us just aren&#x27;t seeing it....