(Full disclosure I used AI to correct spelling and Grammar so the EU might claim this was AI generated 💩it’s not if you want the mistakes you can see how I originally posted it on my profile 😅)
This would make it easier to find and appreciate those works. If you use Melodyne, you’ve used an AI tool—now do you have to declare it? Of course not. But this is the problem: the lack of nuance in a world where AI tools are becoming integrated into everything.
I’m not opposed to using AI tools for music. Having recorded traditionally and worked in Pro Tools my whole life, I’ve been asking myself how to best reward traditional recording artists. We have handmade labels for other things.
Why are people not labeling everything AI or AI-assisted when using those tools? Honestly, I think it’s because of the lack of nuance. Crediting AI for any works where AI was used as a tool is ridiculous—especially if you are working with your own audio and wrote the songs. It makes people assume a robot did everything and puts you on par with music where AI literally did everything.
I’ve only published on streaming platforms outside of Suno my handmade recordings, though I am just as proud of the work I’ve done using AI tools. In many cases it took just as much time to get the results as working in a DAW with no AI tools.
The truth is, AI is going to be more and more integrated into plugins that run in traditional DAWs. The line will be blurred, and the current system of trying to label AI or not AI will fail.
The goal for trying to label these things should be to reward the labor and resources that go into an artist producing 100% human handmade works.
People might still try to lie and cheat the system, but I think right now the issue is credit where credit is due. It’s not really anyone’s business what tools you use, and it’s probably a lot easier to detect 100% AI-generated content than someone using it as a production tool. I think those recordings where it is used as a tool will rise above 100% AI-generated content. Sadly, if not by quality alone, then by the sheer volume and rate at which it can be produced, AI content will outcompete human tradition and labor.
If people want to hate AI, that’s fine—they can support the 100% human-made label music, and it would actually make those artists easier to find and support. Unless we drop labels that lack nuance and reward humans who have honed their skills at a traditional craft, I honestly see us losing those artists more rapidly.
I say this as someone who enjoys the traditional but also what new tools offer. Though now, after using new tools, working strictly in a DAW with none of the new tools kinda just feels like masturbating. A label would at least offer some bragging rights, haha.
In the end, more people are likely to hear music you produce with AI tools simply because you can produce a finished work more rapidly. The handmade label would help the work that takes more time be found more easily by people who want to support the traditional craft.
I think if people think deeply about this, it’s something both anti-AI people and people fine with AI tools could both get behind, because it’s a better solution than what we have now that is unsustainable as technology advances and lines blur. It solves the issues people have right now around labeling on all sides in a better way. There would be more shame and motive not to claim something was 100% human-made when it wasn’t. Right now it feels just as dishonest to credit AI for human labor and creativity, and that feeling of “does a robot deserve the credit for my work?” is why people are more likely not to add an AI label.
We already have the paradigm that works: handcrafted and handmade labels that allow us to support human craftsmanship post-Industrial Revolution, where most things are made by machines.
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