I believe that everyone has recently been brushed by ChatGPT, and its active users have exceeded 100 million in just 2 months since it was launched. (Review:
The "shock" that ChatGPT has brought to the music industry, 2023 will be the year of a large number of generative AI landings
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This "all-round" artificial intelligence that can learn and understand human language to conduct conversations, and even complete tasks such as writing emails, composing music, and code, has been evaluated by people: "Only you can't think of it, no ChatGPT can't do it." ”
Even in terms of music creation, ChatGPT is well done.
Recently, musician Liu Baixin wrote a song using ChatGPT. She typed in a command to ChatGPT to write a dance about sad strawberries, and ChatGPT quickly generated a lyric and suggested the style and harmony. After recording the complete process, a song "Sad Strawberry" was born.
Although everyone has different opinions on the final presentation of the song "Sad Strawberry", and whether it sounds good or not depends on personal aesthetics, it is undeniable that ChatGPT's intelligence still exceeds everyone's expectations.
The statement that "art is the last barrier to AI" seems to have knocked out a small crack, and some netizens have even begun to worry about the job of music creators.
At present, how much change and vibration can ChatGPT, which can write lyrics and music, bring to the music industry in a realistic sense?
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Is ChatGPT a threat to creators?
From writing poems, to writing code, to writing papers, and doing advanced mathematics, OpenAI's free robot dialogue model ChatGPT has attracted global attention for its ability to answer and deal with multi-domain problems.
Such a powerful ChatGPT has recently quickly become a "plug-in" for human cheating.
Research shows that 89% of college students in the United States use ChatGPT for homework. When a philosophy professor was reading the papers, he found a very good paper, concise and rigorous, and substantive, not at all like what his students did. It was eventually confirmed that the paper was written by ChatGPT.
Recently, ChatGPT is also becoming the strongest tool for new media people and media reporters, and it is no longer a dream to generate focused and attractive explosive copy with one click, and even add tags and various emogi intimately.
When it comes to music creation, ChatGPT is also astoundingly versatile.
From writing lyrics and arranging music to music generation or analysis and comparison with other musical works, ChatGPT provides a one-stop service. What the user has to do is to formulate a title or style, or even a few keywords.
In addition to Liu Baixin, some people abroad have already written songs using ChatGpt, which sounds quite like that.
Another music blogger who wrote harmony through it found that it also made simple transposition to build bridges.
After the blogger pointed out the chord problem with Bridge, ChatGPT would even sincerely modify it to try to make the chord more reasonable.
In this regard, many people ridicule that after ChatGPT learns to arrange and mix, and then generate various types of songs with one click in the future, there will be nothing for musicians. And some mixers, arrangers, musicians, singers, even if they are not replaced, will have a certain degree of income affected. In the future, the entry threshold of the music industry may be lowered, and the industry level will be more uneven.
Most importantly, ChatGPT can learn and evolve with each question and answer to give a more optimized answer the next time you answer the same question. In the process of continuous iteration, eventually the mediocre part of human "creativity" and "imagination" can also be replaced by AI.
This result can't help but panic many creators.
However, after ChatGPT became popular, many people used it to create Nick Cave-style lyrics, and Nick Cave directly commented that it was "rotten" after listening to it. He said, "Writing songs is not an imitation or patchwork, but a kind of suicide, let people ruin their past painstaking creation; It's those thrilling and dangerous farewells that allow creators to push the limits of self-knowledge... [Music creation] is a bloody job that requires a part of me to create fresh ideas. It needs my humanity. ”
On the positive side, this means that AI can help humans in more ways, and when the most mechanized and banal production parts are replaced, musicians' creative efficiency and abilities will also increase.
Academician Wu Hequan, president of the Internet Society of China, also believes that there is no need to worry at all. "ChatGPT can help humans do some basic work such as data collation, but it cannot replace human thinking. The so-called poetry novels it wrote are actually completed on the basis of data replication, and it is impossible to have human emotions. ”
In terms of music and other artistic creation, ChatGPT, which cannot perceive the complex emotions of human beings, may not be as skilled as we think.
When asked if musicians would lose their jobs because of AI, ChatGPT replied:
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How long until you go from a "master of fooling" to a true master of creation?
When "ChatGPT passed the Google interview", "ChatGPT rolled out a new career", "Will ChatGPT make programmers unemployed" and other news were overwhelming, causing a panic among people about "being replaced by artificial intelligence".
But in fact, a closer look at some ChatGPT answers reveals that this artificial intelligence is not intelligent enough to a certain extent - it can be called a "master of fooling".
As ChatGPT puts it itself, it's "essentially a trained language model that can only answer what it's trained to learn." "Therefore, in music, painting and other artistic creation, it does not have the ability to create independently.
Many netizens also said that on some issues, ChatGPT replies are the feeling of "as if everything was said, but nothing was said".
Many students who have tried to write papers in ChatGPT said that the language generated by ChatGPT, if read carefully, will find that it is some "gorgeous but empty nonsense", and the arguments and values it outputs are relatively ordinary, which can only play an auxiliary role in academic writing.
Under such a working mechanism, ChatGPT still has a long way to go to acquire human wisdom and replace some of the work of human imagination and judgment.
So far, almost every major manufacturer has entered or will soon enter the ChatGPT business.
On February 7, Baidu announced the launch of a ChatGPT project called "Wen Xin Yiyan", which is expected to complete the internal beta in March and open to the public. On February 8, according to a senior technical expert of Alibaba, Ali Damo Academy is developing a ChatGPT-like dialogue robot, which is currently in the internal testing stage.
On February 9, news broke that Tencent stated that it was orderly promoting special research in ChatGPT and AIGC. In addition, Huawei, JD.com, NetEase Youdao, Xiaomi and many other Internet companies have also expressed their involvement in ChatGPT.
The popularity of ChatGPT even directly spawned "ChatGPT concept stocks", driving the stock market all the way
"Crazy".
For music creators, harnessing various artificial intelligence applications represented by ChatGPT may be able to share some of their complicated things, allowing independent musicians to devote more time and energy to music creation.
Musicians can use AI to quickly generate musical compositions, but they cannot replace human creative ability and inspiration. To a certain extent, this also screens out some musicians with low creative ability and weak professional skills, and also raises the standard of good music.
Music Finance has previously published an article to explore what ChatGPT can do for independent music. Most importantly, it helps independent musicians who are a team save time and become more productive in focusing on their individual creativity. (Review:
What can ChatGPT do for indie music?
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Overall, AI has had a significant impact on the music industry, but its impact also depends on how the technology is used. If the benefits of AI can be fully utilized, the music industry will also benefit.
The current ChatGPT is like an untapped genius with a huge brain capacity, and this time the artificial intelligence revolution led by it has given the current society more room for imagination, and how long it will really open the door to a new world and become a music creator will draw a question mark.