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13. Fruity Loops (FL Studio) started out as a drum machine, and I was never a fan of drum machines.

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 01:25 PM

Apr 16

Tony Visconti is a legendary producer, one of my favorite producers, and he has an understandably low opinion of that sort of tech:

https://musictech.com/news/music/tony-visconti-on-modern-producers/

“They’re making bullshit records with loops. Everything’s sampled,” Visconti explained. “I think old-school production with a band is the only way to make great records. Sure, I can make a record on my laptop. No problem. Any 12-year-old with a laptop and GarageBand or Ableton can.”

You wrote that AI is "nothing new, really." I wish that were true, but AI is much worse. It can take just a few words in a text prompt to get multiple tracks/songs as options.

The AI user can know absolutely nothing about a type of music or types of instruments mentioned in a prompt, but if they're in the AI music generator's training data of stolen intellectual property, the AI will produce in seconds some fake music cobbled together based on text descriptions of the music (endless books, articles and reviews also had to be stolen to train the music AI) linked to all the world's recorded music the AI company could steal.

Zero effort required.

Zero real knowledge required.

And zero thought beyond a wish to pretend to be a musician without any of the skill, work and commitment.

It's complete - and completely unethical - pretense. Pure fraud.

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Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It's Offering an AI "Songwriting" Class [View all] highplainsdem Apr 15 OP

I'm furious... 2naSalit Apr 15 #1

Generative AI needs to be rejected, both publicly and privately, for all the reasons it's unethical, illegal, highplainsdem Apr 16 #16

AI will be stealing all the original music in the next few years FakeNoose Apr 15 #2

They already stole everything they could get to. And yes, they will continue to steal. highplainsdem Apr 16 #14

And each song will sound remarkably like every other song. paleotn Apr 15 #3

True. There's no real intelligence in AI. highplainsdem Apr 16 #15

college instructor here - cab67 Apr 15 #4

Good for you! highplainsdem Apr 16 #11

My Cousin is a Berklee grad pfitz59 Apr 15 #5

AI is a threat to almost all human workers, and was designed to be. The AI bros are planning to have highplainsdem Apr 16 #12

"How disgusting of Berklee. Using AI is the opposite of both learning and creativity." OldBaldy1701E Apr 15 #6

Fruity Loops (FL Studio) started out as a drum machine, and I was never a fan of drum machines. highplainsdem Apr 16 #13

"It's complete - and completely unethical - pretense. Pure fraud." OldBaldy1701E Apr 17 #19

That's an expensive school tonekat Apr 15 #7

We're seeing more and more of a backlash against AI, especially from younger people who can highplainsdem Apr 16 #10

Just a matter of time before the Grammys drop "Song of the Year" and replace it with "Prompt of the Year". LudwigPastorius Apr 16 #8

Nope. Won't happen, unless the AI bros control everything, and everyone's lost their mind. Prompts highplainsdem Apr 16 #9

If Any Institution Should Know Better... ProfessorGAC Apr 16 #17

No, you don't. Shame on Berklee for doing this. highplainsdem Apr 16 #18