Maybe it's a bit fatalistic, but there's not really anything we can do to stop it so I'm not sure its worth worrying about. There is an ethical concern when it comes to neural netwwork-based generation for sure, but its indistinguishable from pieces not using it, or using "traditional" random-number-generator-type generative techniques (which are typically quite popular in niche music communities like this - hello eurorack people!). The argument whether a piece of music is truly "yours" if you used another song's chord progression, or generated part of it, or accidentally used a melody that was in your brain but is only slightly different from one that already exists has raged for decades and will rage more.

The key thing, I think, is that there is no value to anybody in uploading a track that was rendererd wholesale from one of these new fangled "prompt a song" AI music generators, so I trust that people won't bother to do it (and those that do are lost to us already anyway).

I think it is a very complicated topic. I wish AI would be mostly used to get rid of the tedious work that doesn't requiers "artistic" views. That we can use computers-robots to do the non creative tasks for us. I think it is all right to use computer as compagnions-tools to create as well but there are multiple ethical questions that comes with this.

I'll most likely try some of those new tools this year, probably will try to find some cool vocal generators, I already use auto-tune (with lots of me doing the work, but still, it is an AI tool I suppose). I use stretch audio to "fix" things up as well. I use LANDR "AI" Mastering too.

Never just feeded ideas to a computer and just used the output and I don't think I'll ever do that. I like to play instruments, to think of melodies and created more than "build" using already existing or generated lines.

I believe that with all the data available computer training is powerful and that it can generate very effective tracks by itself, but I like the idea of a human or group of human just sitting together and trying to build an idea-emotion, not selecting multiple elements of some of the music that did work good so far...

I've been using AI for the past year to help with lyrics, and it's been great. Obviously requires some editing to go beyond how generic the results often are, but it's lowering the barrier that I previously had in terms of finding words to sing on my songs.

In the past 6 months or so I've also been experimenting with various music generators as well. Suno is a good one that I've discovered recently - it not only generates music, but also intelligible lyrics and vocal melodies. Of course I often don't use the results directly - it's more like hearing a song on the radio and being inspired to use the chord progression or vocal melody style in a different context. However, it's also fun to get it to generate a stupid song I'd never think of writing and then re-record it using live instrumentation and vocals.. which I have done already this year and plan to continue doing.

Yeah I should say that in any case that I use AI, it’s just as a base/idea generator and I never use any of the generated audio.

it's like cheating at a board game while playing casually with mates. if you feel the need to do it, go ahead, but you'll always be the guy who cheated at board games, and if you can live with that, you probably need the excitement more than we do.