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AI: one of the biggest taboos in the creative world today.
Whether it is between friends or an ice breaker question from one of my music professors, there is always a question of how we feel about using AI for our music.
I think that my opinion is very simple. I do not believe in plagiarizing art even if who you are plagiarizing from isn’t a person. I do not believe that it is okay for me to ask AI to write me a song with lyrics and melody and everything else and slap my name on it.
That being said, I do believe that AI is a tool that can be used in the process of making music. Maybe you find yourself in a rut and have no ideas for lyrics. I don’t think it’s a bad idea to use AI to help you brainstorm.
In my experience of using AI, I tend to ask for very specific things and then use AI to figure out what I don’t want. I found this even when trying to come up with my DJ name. I had a couple ideas of my own but asked AI to help me generate some more. I asked for some based on the ideas I had, asked for new ones, gave the program some aspects of my personality to help come up with something. Ultimately, I realized that some of my ideas weren’t the best and that they kinda sounded dumb. In the end, I didn’t like anything that AI had to offer and that helped me come up with dj dragonfly.
I can’t speak for anyone else but when I use AI to help me brainstorm, I often find that the results lack the human touch. There’s something about the results that always just feels a little off. I think that this helps me find my own voice as an individual.
With that in mind, I again have no issue with maybe getting a simple chord progression when you’re burnt out or a line or two of lyrics to get you started when you have writer’s block. But I cannot in good conscience get behind someone writing and stealing from AI without even batting an eye.
— dj dragonfly
