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

UML Music Major here. Hearing about the AI Music class is disgusting and I hope that Berklee learns what they're doing is extremely wrong. Good luck to all of you Berklee students.

Disgusting that Berklee would promote AI music and suck the soul out of making music

AI does not belong in music composition.

f*ck AI

Should this even be discussed?

I’m an incoming Berklee student for the Class of 2030. AI is not the education I signed up for.

Screw AI!

Is this art school or tech school? Either way the people who decided this are to be considered already bought and paid for and should be fired for helping in the destruction of the future of the very students they teach. You would essentially teach a class in crime since the entire thing is built on several forms of theft each more egregious than the last while the companies doing it openly call everyone idiots for believing their lies, while laughing and continuing to take more from everyone. This decision was made by idiots.

AI cannot replace art.

There is a difference between assisting tools and replacing creativity, and the genAI models are mostly used for latter. Also, it is trained on copywrited material which arises ethical concern.

Suno is not the future of the music industry; it is in fact antithetical to everything music is. Making music IS fun. It is the most human thing we can do. To encourage students at one of the most prestigious music schools on Earth to offload that process to an unthinking copyright-violation machine is incorrigible, and if those responsible were capable of shame, I would demand they feel it.

I see no reasonable excuse for having students use AI when they went out of their way (and in many cases into debt) to study at what is supposed to be one of the best music schools in the world.

Fck AI...and, maybe, fck Berklee too.

Absolutely disgusting and shameful what Berklee is doing. It's even more disappointing that it's a music college that is advocating for AI music. This sh*t needs to change and fast!

What Berklee is doing is soulless, a moral failing, and if they don't understand that then it may already be too late... but we need to make sure that they understand this is not economically viable either.

As an alumni of Berklee I find it concerning that Berklee thinks ai generation companies like suno are ethical, good, or frankly helpful for students to learn.

shameful

ai is dumb

Why feed the machine that is trying to eat you and everything you love and care about?

Having a course that is about plagiarism of musical creativity, effectively producing lack of creativity and mediocracy, in an established and respected institution dedicated to a creative artform is very ironic, to say the least.