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

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.

This is like teaching graphic design students how to design clickbait thumbnails. Truly appaling.

Suno is merely a plastic clown with a big red nose young people laugh at. Apart from killing the environment, a vast majority of people actively dislike this idea and its motivations. There are so many other genuinely good technologies in music, that Suno will too ruin the reputation of because of its ties with machine learning. Stuff like timbre changers and stem splitters to name a few. If Universities are trying to prepare for the future, a cheap crappy spit in the face of music will not be worth tens of thousands of dollars. It has already lost favour with gen z and gen alpha. Stop stealing from artists. Stop trying to shortcut the long and expansive craft of music and music tech. If you like Suno, you do not like being a musician, which is something every student at a music University is the exact opposite of.

Instead of teaching how to use AI for good Berklee promotes the main AI music slop generator. This is insane.

not cool berklee.

The faculty and staff involved in introducing and teaching AI music at berklee should be ashamed of themselves. Berklee is regarded one of the best music schools in the world, yet feels the need to sell out to capitalistic, corporate machines that threaten art. As an alumni, I stand with the students who initiated this movement

Human creativity matters.

Gen AI is the creativity killer, and that's a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad thing.