This is Bad... AI Is Literally Destroying Music Production

Summary

The speaker argues that prompt-based AI tools are rapidly lowering the barriers to making music and plugins. Users can now request a beat or full song, imitate a voice, make edits, and generate results that sound mixed or mastered—all without learning music production or programming.

His main concerns include:

• Less emphasis on learning and craft: He contrasts prompting with the satisfaction of gradually learning a DAW, instruments, chords, tuning, and mixing techniques.
• Generic results: He says AI-generated songs can sound alike, citing AI gospel music as an example, and may lack a distinct artistic vision or personal experience.
• Quick-profit products: He criticizes people who use AI to create and sell plugin clones or program imitations without meaningful musical or development expertise. He also questions whether hastily made tools are stable or genuinely original.
• The value of process and authenticity: He argues that listeners and creators value the human effort behind music, even when it does not lead to money or success. He compares the AI boom to NFTs, suggesting that interest in such trends can fade.
• Differences from earlier tools: He says beat machines and synthesizers still required hands-on skill. He also distinguishes AI from Auto-Tune and Melodyne, which, in his view, still depend on performance, usable recordings, and operator skill.
• A possible return to hardware: He predicts that some producers may respond to AI by valuing physical equipment and human-made work more. He says he has personally been buying more hardware and fewer plugins.

The speaker acknowledges that people may use AI for fun, but objects to using it to mislead others or make quick money. He predicts that AI may become part of the “new normal,” while suggesting that the current rush could be a fad. He concludes that musical understanding and human experience will remain important, and that the music-production community is not dead.

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Main Speaker/Source

Bolo, the channel host of Bolo’s Hot Takes. No other speakers are clearly identified.