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

#NotoGenAI

Berkllee, WTF? You support copyright theft now? I fear the old saying that 'Berklee's reputation is inversely proportional to one's distance from it' is no longer true, instead I now must be ashamed I attended no matter how far from Boston I find myself.

What the actual freaking F

AI music is an oxymoron

suno is evil

If AI is pushed as the new method of doing anything, how will we think for ourselves to actually do anything?

The point of music is that it is human

Generative models like ChatGPT and Suno are designed to devalue critical thinking and skilled work. Students at Berklee and across the globe are crying out for people to let them learn and grow, rather than forcing a world that ignores effort, friction, and growth. All of these models are trained on shameless theft of copyrighted materials and any school with an anti-plagiarism policy would be hypocritical to endorse these technologies.

As a musician who still dreams of going to music school, it is disturbing and exhausting seeing schools like Berklee fall for the propaganda of tech bros within the AI bubble. Students are vehemently opposed to this plagiarism technology that wastes resources and further erodes the planet. It is not skillful, not wanted, not meaningful. People create in order to express, learn to build skills, and develop art through intention - all things they hope to be taught about and develop in school. Generative AI by its very nature devalues and fails those processes. You are failing your students if you don't drop this, and you'll continue to see students aggressively push back.

No AI should be used in any parts of the arts. A place like Berklee shouldn't have any need to use AI or teach that using AI is okay to use in the industry.

It's sad to see more and more institutions introducing practices no one wants just because of investors. Generative AI speeds up the process sure, but what do you really gain from it? Students should be taught how to surpass AI in their craft, and professors should encourage the development of a student's own expression, not handing them a bot to do it all for them. These people are blinded by greed and profit.

Curriculum for higher education in music should be determined through the rigorous and collaborative expertise of masters within the industry with the intention of adequately passing the torch onto the next generation, not by venture capitalists who see music as a product to extract wealth from for personal gain.

berklee is gonna make themselves into a laughing stock lol

While own AI's might be trained on submitted data by students, LMMs based on big firms that skirt around copyright, fair use, and spit in the face of musicians trying to develop their unique craft, has no place at any esteemed music college

time to pull the plug

End generative ai's reign of terror

Solidarity from DC.

They should teach how to co-exist with and be prepared to face challenges related to generative AI. Oh wait, that doesn't profit the Berklee staff who have money in AI congolmerates. All this class teaches students is that Berklee are doing their best to make the education they provide worthless, and that students' money will fund the corporations doing their best to ruin musicians.

Sveglia diocane

As a Berklee student getting their Masters in Songwriting, I stand by all the other students and members of faculty who are standing against the use of AI in our courses. All AI use is unethical and should never be acceptable in our courses