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

Owen Forsyth

Human and artistic expression is important to our culture and society. Musicians deserve to create worthwhile art for worthwhile cultural movements. and just like everybody else musicians need to survive in this world, put food on the table and share what they’re best at.

Winston

In no way does generating songs with ai and making money off them benefit anyone but the selfish people doing it. It kills human creativity and the emotion and feeling one puts into a piece of art. Music is nothing without creativity and feeling and heart, and ai will never change that.

Generative AI in music isn't creativity, it's laziness. It steals copyrighted music and correlates it to tags and you just prompt and generate until you like the result. It wastes energy, water, and generates tons of pollution and is bad for the environment. Shutting the class down isn't enough, ban the use of all generative AI and make students actually use their own creative minds.

No to AI in music!

My daughter attends Berklee to hone her compositional skills and one day earn a living creating music for herself and others to perform. Now you are handing her the shovel to dig her career's grave and you want to compel her to take it and dig. What is wrong with you?

Aside from adding my name here, I emailed President Lucchese, Composition Department Carrick and AI Songwriting Professor Camp regarding this absurd notion.

This purported "AI" has no place near human made art. And it is especially heinous to have it taught or presented as a legitimate means of creation in a classroom at a school dedicated to honing creative skills. Actual skills performed with human hands. It begs the deeper questions of why we even make music or art to begin. Is this all really just for gain? The pathetic grift behind this all is that we are not encountering actual AI or anything close to AGI. Rather, we have unsustainable, environmentally destructive probability machines labeled as "intelligent". There is no real intelligence behind this, only the shortsighted pursuit of gain at the expense of humanity. It is only cultic, hypercapitalistic bloodletting in hopes that some day these grifters will be able to achieve socioeconomic moksha by charging you money to think, create, or breathe. Do not let this happen.

AI is rapidly erasing and replacing all levels of music and audio jobs, making this infamously hard to get-your-foot-in-the-door industry simply impossible. Promoting the use and proliferation of AI is a disservice to all Berklee graduates; past, present, and future.

AI should be involved whatsoever in any kind of art form, music especially. Art is human expression and another for us to communicate with each other. AI completely takes away that expression from us and longer makes it art. Plus, it also encourages laziness and dependency.

AI should stay far away from songwriting and composing. There is no benefit to humans in having AI compose something just "likeable" when real music is generally raw and uneven, not packaged or copy and pasted.

its insane that we even have to fight such thing

As an audio engineer and AI engineer, I cannot tolerate such courses being taught at my alma mater.

I currently attend a music college in Australia. I'm uncertain of what the future of my studies look like, however, I was considering applying for Berklee. Now I don't know...

I sign

Tech companies want to replace us with automated labor they won’t have to pay wages. Don’t let them, Berklee!

Keep Generative AI out of our school and the industry!!

Humans should make music, not AI.

It's disgusting that a once highly respected institution as Berklee would entertain the idea associating with a plagiarism machine. Are students going to be allowed to plagiarize exams now? If not, what's the difference?

Replacing teaching a craft and honing ones skills with slop and brain rot is a bold move for a faculty built on the shoulders of true artists.

AI music generation is the antithesis of the point of a music degree. Shame on Berklee for promoting this vapid trend.