No Generative AI At Berklee- Disband Bots, Beats and Bytes

Contracting with a generative AI music corporation, especially Suno, whose CEO thinks that musicians no linger “enjoy making music” pathetic, disgraceful and embarrassing, and is a stain on the reputation of Berklee.

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I am a current Berklee student and very concerned about this issue, not only for my remaining time at this school but for future generations of students and the legacy of Berklee, as well as how AI presence at Berklee may tarnish my standing as an alum.

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AI in the entertainment industry the way it is now is purely a parasite serving to benefit a handful of bootlickers. I've had my eye on Berklee to move forward with my career in music, but am utterly disappointed and will not be attending there as long as this remains an issue.

Hopefully my signature goes through bc it wasn’t the last couple of times I tried. But I’m very displeased with the use of AI at a school like Berklee. In this day and age, where the arts is already under attack enough, I would much rather see the college I attend back its students of the arts and even teach them how to protect their work from AI. I think as students, we didn’t attend this school to be taught how to write an AI prompt or take short cuts, we came here to further our artistry and music education.

I was a student there. Would hate it if this had happened in my time.

This is an insane move from my alma mater

College music professor proudly teaching music the way we should learn. Through experiential learning and not outsourcing to an LLM

AI has no place at Berklee!

Why waste AI on things like this when it’s wasting time, energy, and water from the earth? There’s so much creativity that goes into this field, and it shouldn’t be wasted on AI

LET’S HELP TOGETHER!

I know this is rather lengthy, but I want to just fill in my part in my research and conclude my stance! I think the course needs remodeling, a rerbrand (rename), and a different approach on how to deliver such technologies that have a tendency to infringe copyright. I want to start by saying this, if we are going to talk about AI, we have to apply it as part of a music technology course, but not as a separate course focusing on AI, and this can be pulled off in 1 unit (3 classes), I'd also add a disclaimer stating we are including generative AI for educational purposes to see how AI is applied in practice. We don't need to highlight artists we will exemplify with these applications, but what would be helpful is to stop looking at AI as that #1 tool to solve writer's block, and keep in mind that this is not a profitable method as prompts cost credits, which cost money, also Suno has a subscription model, so depending how much you'd gamble on AI, it's on you in the long run if you get in some legal trouble using such technologies that is used for ripping content and slap it onto your music. Lastly, I am a neutral supporter in the use of AI for quick fixes through sound engineering and regurgitate a sound that is similar to a reference track, but that would mean trouble in the sample library sector of the industry where people will resell presets and sounds that result in generative AI (that's been going on over the past 3 years, it just grew louder at this point). My stance on this is simple, use AI as a reference point, it'll only take you to your vision by a little bit and you'll need to refine it anyways, it's really not a quick fix thing. You can ask it to do the research for you to expedite to a definite answer to something you're troubleshooting or investigating, but as I said before, it'll only take you to 80% of what you're looking for, the 20% is you refining it manually, at least you saved hours finding the answers and gathering data you need to ti

I can't believe Berklee has adopted Suno into their curriculum. This makes no sense. Thank you Adam Neely!

AI is NOT a creative outlet and NEVER WILL BE creative. It is plagiarism at its core. Be ashamed of your damn selves. And you people wonder why your families don't love you or care about you, when you care about nothing in the damn world but money.

Apparently our generation is the only one with a backbone.

This should be obvious. AI should not have anything to do with music.

I'm applying for music colleges now, if this is the standard then I'm not very hopeful about the quality of education I'll be getting.

I don’t even need to explain why this is utterly irresponsible and damaging behaviour. The higher ups at Berklee making these decisions should be truly ashamed of themselves.

No AI in the Arts!!!