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AI Fame Or Folly - AI Music Artist - It's a Digital Instrument!!!

• Original GOAT • Season 10 • Episode 1

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OG GOAT to AI Google's version called Gemini,

OG GOAT: Can I classify AI-generated singing as a digital instrument?

GEMINI:  Yes, you absolutely can classify AI-generated singing as a digital instrument or a type of virtual instrument, especially in the context of music production and performance.

The classification is based on how the technology functions and how it is used musically.

 Why AI Singing is a Digital Instrument

A digital instrument (often a Virtual Instrument or VST/AU plugin in music software) is a device or piece of software that relies on computing power and electronic signals to generate musical sounds.

AI singing synthesis fits this definition because:

 * It Generates Sound: The AI is a system that creates a musical output (the vocal track) that did not exist acoustically beforehand.

 * It's Controllable: Users provide input—typically MIDI data (notes, pitch, timing), and text (lyrics, or a text-based prompt for style/expression)—to the AI system to perform the singing. This is similar to how a producer uses a MIDI keyboard and a software synthesizer (a classic digital instrument) to generate a bassline or a piano part.

 * It Replaces an Acoustic Element: While a human voice is an acoustic instrument, the AI system acts as a digital stand-in, much like a software sampler is a digital replacement for a real drum kit or a grand piano.

 * It is a Synthesis Engine: The technology, often called Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS), uses complex algorithms (like neural networks or Generative Adversarial Networks—GANs) to synthesize or model the human voice's timbre, pitch, and dynamics from scratch, or by manipulating vocal samples. This is analogous to how a synthesizer generates sounds using oscillators, filters, and envelopes.

 Digital Instrument vs. Software Tool

While the AI engine is technically software, its function within music creation is that of an instrument.

| Feature | Digital Instrument (e.g., AI Singer, Software Synth) | General Software Tool (e.g., DAW, Equalizer) |

|---|---|---|

| Primary Function | Generates and creates the source musical sound/tone. | Records, modifies, processes, or arranges existing sounds. |

| Input | Notes (MIDI), pitch, lyrics, expression controls. | Audio files, automation data, mixing parameters. |

| Output | A musical performance (notes, words, timing). | A processed or mixed version of an existing performance. |

The AI singing generator creates the raw, musical performance (the vocal track), which is the job of an instrument. Other programs, like your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), are then used to mix and process that vocal track, which is the job of a software tool.

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SPEAKER_00:

Okay, folks, this is OG GOAT, and we're back with an issue here about an artist, the AI artist, who won a multi-million dollar record deal, I think it was, for her song. And I have uh my boy here, Big K on the line, and we're in sort of a dilemma as to whether or not this is a legitimate artist or not. And so, Kay, out of the PA, give me your analogy of what you think is going on here. How do you feel about this artist getting this multi-million dollar contract? Do you think it's a a legitimate thing, or do you think it's something that is not right? And what don't you like about it? Or what do you like about it?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I think it's I think it's a split decision for me. I think it's I think it's good creativity as far as you know with the brothers going into with this AI stuff. Also, I think it's also a a bad thing because when you're spending money to go see someone, especially if you fall in love with an artist and they are computer generated, I will not spend my money, and I don't know if I can't speak for all people, but I know for some for myself, I will not spend my money to go see a show of something that was done through AI.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. Now, let me ask you this. You already know where I'm going with this, but let me ask you. So if you fell in love with this AI artist because of the quality of the audio, and the quality of the audio was actually the singer, and you knew up front, you were not tricked into thinking that that was the person. You knew up front, everything was made well open to the ear to you, that this was an AI-generated image, but the audio is the actual singer. Just used an AI image with background. Would you do you think that takes away from the artist itself, since the audio and the singing is actually the artist?

SPEAKER_01:

No, because I mean they did put in the work, they put the words together. Right. They put the words together, they you know, they they form but they you know, they formulated something that I guess would could become special. And no, I I don't take away from that point. Well, I just I just look at the long at the at the long site, and I feel that if it does take off and and um become very uh successful for a person, um how do you go about uh doing shows? Um um sign-ins? Like you maybe you want to do a book or something, like like what how do you bring that about when you you know you be high you hiding behind this um this computer?

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. So let me ask you a question. What if the actual person that sang the song is there to sign a book or to sign a record album? But when it comes to the production, you see exactly what you fell in love with, which is that AI-generated image of that person. You see that, whether it be on the screen or by hologram. You see it. You see exactly what you fell in love with. Now let's say the the person that sang the song didn't use the AI image, okay? The AI image when they performed, and you saw someone else show up that doesn't look like the AI image at all, would you feel cheated? Because what you saw in the AI image is not what you're seeing right now, but the quality of the music is still the same. Would you feel cheated? I wouldn't feel cheated, but I just I would feel be honest now, because you remember now you're not seeing what it is you fell in love with.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, but I but also I would I would probably not go far with with with the with um with as far as looking, I would think I would just keep it as a something to put on my headphones and listen to it as of that and and know there's no more expectations after that. But as far as like if I want the if they was to say, oh, we have a a concert right next door to you, I I wouldn't even be I wouldn't even be thrilled to even think about going.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, so if the artist was able to create a hologram, a 3D or 4D hologram image of the AI artist that you fell in love with with a full stage performance, lights, uh uh um the smoke, the fog, stage presence, stage everything. You just couldn't touch that artist, but everything was there. Would you not want to pay for that type of concert?

SPEAKER_01:

No.

SPEAKER_00:

Not even. Not even at a at half half the rate.

SPEAKER_01:

No, I wouldn't be interested. I just feel like I'm I'm in a big video game.

SPEAKER_00:

But you know what? That's not fair. That's not fair to the creator. Because the creator, the creator was honest with you up front. The creator lets you know up front, this is my creativity. AI just doesn't generate an image. AI generates what you tell it to generate. So what you see is the artist's rendition of their own imagination of what they wanted the AI artist to look like. So what you see is a creativity of or creativeness of the actual singer. And it's not fair. Look, Picasso, his his pictures are multi-million dollar pictures and and priceless pictures, but they're only pictures. They're only a form of the artist's creativity. When people pay millions in dollars of the auction, they're not dare to see Picasso. They dare to see the picture that Picasso created. And that's the same thing here. The only difference is this artist is not using paint. They're using digital uh creativity, they're using video. So why shouldn't this artist get a multi-million dollar contract for the work that they created if Picasso can get uh sell a painting for millions and millions of dollars for something that he created? The only difference is is the is the uh the way it was presented. One was digital and one was on canvas. It's not there. It's still the artist's creativity.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but Postco paintings they've become popular off the off the rip. It gradually became it gradually caught the public's attention and and and and and fetch for them type of them numbers.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how long it took to get there. Doesn't matter. Tesla, maybe Tesla's cars came out and they became popular immediately, and they didn't have to go through the timeline that Ford went through from the 1920s to now to become such a popular vehicle. You know, so Tesla, you can say Tesla's vehicles became popular quicker than Ford did. That doesn't mean that he can't get$100,000 for a vehicle, just like maybe Ford might have a$100,000 vehicle. You know, so the timeline doesn't really matter. What matters, I think, is the fact that someone, regardless of what they look like, created this character. Look at the cartoons. Every cartoon that you see, you know, someone created it. People go to the movies to see cartoons. People go uh look at the uh uh Comic-Con. All of those is images of something that someone created. You're not seeing the actual you you understand what I'm saying? You're seeing someone's creativity.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but I don't know. For some for for me, uh a performer I I would rather see a performer and an artist in the in it in its entirety. Like you just um on stage with the mic, whether it's handheld or on the neck or the or on top of the head. You know, I would like to see I would like to see that type of real work that you know that I'm used to seeing.

SPEAKER_00:

I believe the problem is is that people, not saying just you, but I think people are trying to put the AI artists in the same category and compared to a live human being when I think we're looking at two different things. I think it's I think it's similar. I think the AI artist belongs in its own category for AI artists, and it's not meant to be compared to a human complete stage show and design. But that doesn't that doesn't mean an AI artist can't get credit uh, you know, credibility for its work. It's just a different, let's call it for what it is, a genre of recordings. You just did something different. That's like saying, why should I pay uh$50 for a movie ticket in 2D when I can go pay$50,$60 for a movie in 3D? You know what I mean? Because you're saying that you feel that you're you're you're being cheated because you're not getting the same quality as a by having the stage artist presence as you would uh uh uh an actual live performer. But I think that what we're dealing with here is two different sectors. And I don't think you should compare an AI artist with uh, I guess let's call it a live artist. I don't I think it's a in the class of its own, and it should be given credence for what it is. It's something that's being created. I think I don't think nothing should be taken away from that. I just don't think that they should be compared, and this is what people are doing. They're comparing it. They're feeling that this is a shortcut. This is not a shortcut. This is a different form, a different reality. This is a new phase, and we're entering uh in a whole nother level other than what was done before. That's it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, I agree with that part.

SPEAKER_00:

So that artist should get paid, and then next and anything else after that, that's AI, should be compared with AI, not with Michael Jackson or not with you know James Brown. Now, the thing is that those artists have a two-fold, whereas AI does not. So those artists can do a live performance and they can do an AI uh hologram of themselves on stage. They can do two things. So this is for for this reason sets them apart from the other one. Now, these artists that's feeling some sort of way about the AI, stop, stop, you know, being jealous. Stop looking at, you know, stop, you know, looking down on other people that found a way to make it. Understand it for what it is, okay? You have the upper hand. If you broke sweat and tears to get what you are, look at what you got. You got a live stage presence and you can do AI. This person over here only has AI. So call it what it is. That's it. Don't look down on them because they made it, they they got a multi-million dollar contract just using AI, and you've been doing live performances and and you had the ability to do AI, but you don't have a multi-million dollar contract. Maybe that says something about your work.

SPEAKER_01:

I think AI been, I mean, AI has been around for a long time. It just now they enhanced it to take it up to another level. AI been people have been using auto-tunes and all types of things to help their voice out for for for quite some time. And I think just now that AI is just able to take everything, instead of using it for little bits and pieces here and there, they able to use it in in full. So I think that's the yeah, I think that's the the difference there.

SPEAKER_00:

And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something, excuse me. I didn't mean to cut you off, but I'm gonna tell you something. Don't think, I think, that all of the commercials that you've seen on TV that caught you to go into a store to buy that$50,000 car or whatever the case might be, don't think, I think that that wasn't AI. I believe there was some artificial intelligence for the people who got Buco dollars that those commercials were created long time ago, as you said, and you know, and convinced people to go out and you know, actually buy a car. Like I've seen how how long the the self-parking car's been out before the Tesla or whatever.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh yeah, Lexus was like, I think, one of the first companies to introduce it in the Lexus LS something, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And when you actually it it looks great on a commercial, but when you actually take a look at one of those cars and watch it park itself, it leaves your car sticking out six to eight inches from the curb. And and it does that intentionally so that you don't uh rub the car. The car doesn't rub against the curb or it leaves room, extra room for other things, which we as drivers don't do. But see, they don't show you that part when they showed us, they didn't show us that when they showed the self-driving car. They just showed it from the the left side and not the curb side and say, look, the car parked itself.

SPEAKER_01:

That's right.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, but people went out and bought the car because it parked itself. But it didn't park it like you thought it was gonna park it. Yeah, but you know, Big K from the PA, I know you're a busy man, and I appreciate you stopping by and uh discussing this with me. We're gonna put this up and see what, you know, see what the public has to say.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And uh I really, I really respect your opinion and I understand exactly what you mean. And uh I hope you can understand uh my point of view as well.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah, definitely. Yes, yes. And it's something that you know we're gonna see much of in the future because this is uh definitely taking a turning point, you know, to you know, for everything that, you know, everyday life. So yeah, it's here to stay, and we're gonna see what it could do.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, sir, yes, sir. All right, big K. I'm gonna let you be on your way, and thanks again for stopping by. This is over and we're out.