Rick Beato: belief

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…I think the room for creativity right now for humans is lyrics. It seems like the lyrics that are being generated, they lack soul somehow. And that’s- I don’t know the words correctly. I mean, they can be incredibly sophisticated, but there’s something, the edge is not there. Some kind of edge that we want in our lyrics. Some kind of surprise, but not cringe or not cliché. Or something truly novel in the lyrics. But if that’s the case, it’s kind of sad that that’s where the creativity has to come from, but not from the music. Because then if we can create very realistic music that sounds really damn good, where’s the role of the musician there? I think the role of the musician is that in actually… If they use AI to assist them in coming up with ideas, they could as a creation tool. Then the musician… Like, some of the stuff is just not high quality sonically. So, the musician goes in and redoes stuff and changes things and adds parts, and then they actually do music production, and maybe they re-sing the parts, and they change the stuff. And then it’s just basically like an idea generator, and I think that that’s a great use of AI, is for that. But see, if you do that, does it make you sad that you don’t necessarily need to learn instruments? So, basically, you can… I mean, you can think of it as a different kind of instrument, but you can write lyrics. You can hum the melody. You can just hum parts. You know? And then do an A/B kind of thing. Just kind of rhythm this kind of, and stitch them together. And never actually have your fingers on a guitar or fingers on a drumstick.…

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