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

Absolutely 0, I mean ZERO professional musicians I work with or am friends with want to use generative AI to create music. The tech bros can try all they want––they WILL fail. Higher learning institutions need to be teaching songwriters, producers & instrumentalists to PROTECT themselves against AI, not to use it in their work. It is quite frankly embarrassing as hell that Berklee is ready to die on this hill. Just take a look at another (formerly) great institution here in Philadelphia, World Cafe Live, who went ALL IN on the Tech Bro™ Metaverse BS, and see what that did for them. Check in and see how they are doing lol. It makes me sad and ashamed that folks in power allowed these courses to be offered to students at all. They should be ashamed.

AI in music is a demonstrably terrible idea! and then to try to INCORPORATE IT into CURRICULUM?? what the hell are we paying all this money for anyway?

Suno clearly is a tool to rob students of their ability, rather than enhance it, to make them reliant, for a fee. Teach kids to create, not plagiarize, steal, and regurgitate.

Teaching students to use AI in songwriting is not forward thinking. It is shortsighted. Songwriting is not a frictionless process - by removing the friction, students will become reliant on the AI to write their songs, which sets them up for failure and prevents them from improving. As a business model, AI only takes more money out of the hands of artists, which will only make the music suffer. For millennia music has been synonymous with culture, but with AI, there will be no progression of culture, we will recirculate the same culture forever as innovation is drowned out and everything is homogenized. All of our lives will be worse for it. AI isn't inevitable - we are free to stop whenever. Stopping now would be great.

AI should not be part of any music education

AI slop

Doctor of Musical Arts in Sonic Arts Composition here. Do not allow anyone to conflate products like Suno AI with the creative potential of AI technology. The fact that key figures in the Berklee administration have past or present links with the Suno AI corporation should set off alarm bells. Not to mention, Tech bro Suno AI CEO Mikey Shulman, who considers ethical artist and art industry practices as inconvenient, is using all of your user data and input to wipe out yours and others' future generations of artist opportunities.

Shameful. So much personal conflict of interest going on. Talk about ruining a reputation

"Teaching" students to simultaneously stunt their creativity and ignore the plagiarism inherent in AI music services isn't going to end well...

This is not the way. Music, writing songs, playing an instrument are salvos for the soul. If someone thinks that is too hard... they should not be musicians and probably have some other endeavor they can get lost in. Teaching people how to pull songs out of their ass... is not becoming of a respected school.

Please be ethical and respectful to artists.

NO GENERATIVE AI IN MUSIC AND ART.

Berklee is a disgrace for doing this, may your protesting not be in vain.

Former Berklee student, absolutely appalled this was even considered among such a well respected staff of musicians. Generative AI steals music, and represents the antithesis of what being a musician is. How did this come from a place full of people who have spent their lives refining a craft that generative AI spits in the face of?

I was a former Berklee Student and I hate AI

Knowledge is powerful. Let’s continue to learn as a society.

As a student at Humber, I fear for the influence this class will have on institutions around the world, as Berklee often sets the standard for music programs worldwide.

Paying over $30,000 a semester to go to this college, and now they are trying to force us to learn how to make AI slop. What has Berklee become? What is our money going to?

Ban AI music (if you can even call it music), support human creativity

Huge conflict of interest here. This needs to be stopped.