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

Berklee's my alma mater. I've never been more embarassed to say that.

Keep art HUMAN

Going there next year, don't want to see this when I arrive.

F*ck AI Music and F*UCK THE BILLIONAIRES

This is incredibly unprincipled

Billionaires are some of the most mentally ill people on the planet but few people see them that way due to the media serving their needs

Utterly disgraceful. Jim Lucchese is astoundingly corrupt, and his ties to Suno display nothing but contempt for all musicians.

Unregulated AI development is unethical and the technology stunts intellectual development and cognitive abilities, it is not advantageous to dilute our ability to think critically!

We want music schools to teach music writing, not prompts

As a musician in Tulsa, ok, and lover of the arts, i herby sign this petition and support all real artists and real musicians to stand up against AI and prevent any further infiltration into our learning

This is outrageous

AI cannot love a person, so AI should not make music.

I love berklee, love the vibe and the people to come out from there, and have dreamed of going to berklee myself. F*** AI

It's my dream to go to Berklee, but if this course stays imma just find somewhere else to go

Shameful.

Absolutely not. Musicians are artist, generative A.I. steals. Simple.

absolutely not bruh

the use of gen ai to "make" music is one of if not the most craven and unsouled applications of the technology suno is blatant copyright theft also lol

I am a musician, a writer, and a human. This kind of AI is anathema to all three. Berklee was a place where many of my favorite musicians taught or attended, where the name was synonymous with excellence, and while my path didn't take me there, a place that I loved visiting and attending the summer camps. Embracing generative AI has shattered that reputation for me all at once - and for the students I teach as well. I am also a volunteer member of PauseAI US, an AI safety org, and I have made many arguments in my work for the humanity in music. How musicians won't accept it. It's time to listen to your student body, and the broader public at large: no generative AI in your music school.

AI music is a theft of our human capacity for creativity and I yearn for a day where we all realize that and give up on it. Berklee teaches musicians, not venture capitalists, and it needs to stay that way.