You know that feeling when you look at an image and it seems almost too perfect to be real? No blemishes, no flaws, nothing out of place. So, like any reasonable person with at least two functioning brain cells, you immediately conclude that it has to be AI-generated.
Well, I recently experienced that same sense of déjà vu, but this time it wasn't with images. It was with music.
A friend played me two songs by a supposed artist called Agulugufe: Lilongwe and Ndili Single. The tracks sounded so polished, so professionally produced, that I found it hard to believe they were sung by an actual Malawian musician. No shade to malawian artists , but these two songs just felt extraordinarily perfect to me.
Then came the big reveal. My friend casually informed me that the songs were AI-generated. What a bummer😒.
The experience left me wondering just how much AI is about to change the music industry. Ai generated artists are already producing songs that are surprisingly catchy, and in some cases they seem capable of competing with or even outperforming human musicians. If the technology continues improving at this pace, it's easy to imagine a future where many artists struggle to make a living from their music. Even SZA has voiced concerns about the growing role of AI in music.
Maybe I'm overreacting, but it genuinely feels like we're witnessing the beginning of a major shift. What do you think? Are AI artists a passing novelty, or are they about to reshape the music industry as we know it?