AI can make art, but it’s more fun when people do

A tech CEO reckons composers hate playing instruments so much that they’d give it up in favour of AI, but that doesn’t quite ring true

@njkobie Mikey Shulman needs to bake some cupcakes or sit down with some crayons and paper and doodle. He’s the CEO of Suno AI, a tool for making music using AI. On a recent podcast, he said writing and recording songs takes too much time – you need to learn an instrument, practise it until you’re good and maybe even learn production software. “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music,” he suggested. It’s hard to think anyone would do a job like writing songs if they hated it. So this is clearly a man who himself gleans no joy from the act of creation. Getting caught up in writing, building, cooking or whatever is one of the great pleasures of…

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