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Uehrekayesterday at 10:38 PM1 replyview on HN

> Oddly none of the anti-‘s were musicians themselves.

It is clearly plain to anyone who is a musician or hangs out with a lot of musicians that the independent music world is livid about this stuff. Everyone I’ve talked to, from acoustic songwriters to metal singers to circuit-bending pedalheads are united in their absolute hatred of this technology.

(Yes, follow-up commenter, I’ve seen the Timbaland interview)


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dds-ddsyesterday at 11:05 PM

As an independent musician, I for one welcome our AI overlords. They should not be worried about any technology that needs a human to make it remotely interesting.

They should not be worried if they aren't generic sounding independent musicians already.

Lastly, and a historical case in point, this whole conversation is a repetition of the anti-Sampler movement of the 80s and 90s. Look what that techno-leap brought us.

A new technology brings new sounds, if we all stopped treating a megalithic search engine as a personality, we'll move forwards with a lot less drama.

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