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

I am working on a degree at Berklee Online. I am going to stop taking classes unless they take a stand against AI in music. Suno is not music. It is a computer algorithm. Music is made by humans.

Imagine in a generation having Berklee on your resume meaning you wasted a lot of money to learn nothing, who would trust that a Berklee musician is actually competent in their craft when the craft is just an ad for a hyped theft slop machine.

The idea that Berklee, infamous holy land of hyper specialized technical proficiency and mastery, would try to insert generative AI alongside it's other courses as though it's a valuable teachable skill with any sort of technique involved is absolutely brain dead insane. Generative AI is not a useful new exciting tool representing new horizons in music and the arts, it needs to be absolutely and impolitely destroyed.

AI is not craft, it is not art, it's not a skill. Typing "make me a pop song in the style of Ariana Grande" is just open theft that spineless administrators allow because they get a kickback from venture capitalists. If you're enrolling students who want to work on their craft and make amazing art only to tell them that their craft is worthless and they should learn to use AI, then you aren't running a school. You're running a sweatshop. A slop farm. Destroy all data centers and fire the professor teaching the AI course. That's a conflict of interest anyway, what kind of unethical circus is Berklee running over there?

Berklee college of music used to be my dream school, the fact that you have AI courses have made me lose any and all interest, respect, and credibility in Berklee

I don't like Suno

A class should be about learning skills, not avoiding them and bypassing the learning curve to get the immediate results.

Shut this scam down! Art is under attack by rent seeking tech companies.

AI is ruining the environment and society.

Generative AI has no space in artistry, it makes no sense for any school to be teaching their MUSIC students to NOT LEARN music.

lets keep "getting bored" and "loosing our time" learning music, as accelerationists said, music is for and by humans, no clankers

Generative AI goes against the human aspects of creating and performing music, and the process of learning and engrossing yourself in the art. Generative AI is not creative, it's simply a computer model trying to replicate something that is similar to a prompt by using a extremely vast and unregulated data pool. That is not music.

When the idea of AI became a thing, it was meant to get rid of the technical boring things, to be free to create. Art is human.

Good luck y'all. Keep AI out of art and education for young musicians

To think I was considering attending the Valencia campus for music production. Never. This is beyond shameful

i wouldn't take an AI music class if you paid me to

I HATE AI

You will NEVER take the humanity and soul out of music with generative AI slop. There is no place for it here, and as a Berklee alum, I am extremely disappointed.

ai is stealing from artists and workers. death to the machine

Let human musicians have a chance in the industry. Not AI.