This details how I use AI, and how it can be of use to other players here on the forum:
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When I have a mental block on the lyrics for a song Iām writing, an AI chat bot often gives me useful ideas.
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Agreed. I hear that some comics are using AI to help with jokes that they have trouble finishing. It can be a very helpful tool.
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I thought AI only knows what it has scraped off the net. So essentially, theyāre stealing someone elseās joke.
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What is this āraceā you speak of, and more importantly, is it going to interfere with me plinking my guitar and sharing my s***? 
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It might make it hard to get heard ā¦
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I hope this will push artists to perform live more and with reasonable ticket prices. Eventually most people will get tired of consuming content on āsocialā platforms.
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If we want live music to continue into the future then we need to support the small venues and grassroots artists - go to a local pub and support live music. Coldplay, Metallica and Taylor Swift will be fine.
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It makes zero difference to me whether 50ā000, 100ā000 or for that matter 500ā000 songs are being uploaded to the internet every day, as long as I can still find what I want and share my meagre offerings with my friends and family.
Does this affect professional musicians?
Of course it does.
As you say he established, big acts will be fine.
Small and new acts will have to think ācreativelyā if they want to make money out of doing what they enjoy.
Why do you think live music might not continue? 
Live music is flourishing worldwide as never before, from the behemoths to the grassroots.
Just donāt give up your day job until youāve figured out how to make it pay 
YouTube & Spotify have largely replaced my record/CD player and I canāt see myself āgetting tiredā of using them as long as they continue providing the services they currently do, even if they offer a load of AI gunk with it
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I really hope you are right, but thatās not been my experience recently - I find pubs are shutting, venues are struggling, audiences are smaller and older. I was in Clapham on Thursday night watching a fringe play at a pub, there was a band playing too. Itās a great venue but the audience numbers wouldnāt have covered costs.
Iāve found the same in recent months at a couple of local venues too. I think the problem is how the smaller venues make it pay.
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Youāre quite right.
How to make things pay (for artists and venues) is a huge problem.
For them (and increasingly other employments 
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Even if there were no venues and no money to be earned, live music would still continue and flourish. Itās what we love to do and experience.
Iām paying a band I admire to play in my living room next week. Iāll feed and water them and give them a bed for the night. I hope they sell some merch.
I donāt think theyāll be giving up their day jobs soonā¦
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I really hope so.
This is a cool thing to do - I hope the nightās a great sucess!
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What I mean is that because of technology, āindustrialā music will get more and more polished and there will be an oversaturation of it, so much that people (like me) will likely lose interest in it and rather go watch live performances where real people play real instruments. Artists will have to carve out niche follower groups going back to the basics (take Jesse Welles for example, who plays acoustic guitar and sings in a forest by himself).
And Iām all for supporting unknown bands performing live in small venues.
The music industry will suffer, but maybe this will be a liberation from the control of big labels. Music shouldnāt be an industry.
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Iām with you on most of that, except for the fact that most of us enjoy ārevisitingā (and often idolise) the music of our past (even when it was crap) and will continue to do so 
There will also continue to be global āfadsā, and sometimes the net will throw up the odd gold nugget for me (eg Radiohead).
Iām curious when the first āAI earwormā will hit me- one I really like, but sounding āfreshā 
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Iām great supporter Paul! Over here itās not just pubs offering live music, they are also in the big cities I guess, my experience is more about restaurants, pizzerias, ātrattorieā which I would define us humble countryside places offerring genuine and well cooked dishes from the local traditions 
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Not to speak about the summerā¦when itās summer itās live music everywhere at these countryside parties called Sagreā¦they traditionally offered orchestras performing polkas, walts, tangos and a lot of that accordion danceable stuff for the old people to dance, but times are changing and so often they host great or humblier cover bands 
ā¦and itās all for free, they never ask for moneyā¦
Tonight husband and I are going to a pizzeria and there will be a Vasco Rossi cover bandā¦and I will sing them all 
A couple of weeks ago we were at this Sushi Katana in Genova and there was this Call me band 70ā 80ā 90ā and when the concert was over we approached the band to congratulate with them and the bassist before I could open my mouth exclaimed āAh, you sang them all!ā 
The guitarist plays in different bands and both my husband and I agree he does amazing things on that electric guitar! We saw him in a Queen Cover Band in August and in another Vasco Cover Band too.
Weāre on the seaside and many towns/municipalities organise live events throughout the summerā¦those are fir free tooā¦thereās really no chance to get bored!
- Edit: donāt get me wrong, there are also fine restaurants offering live musicā¦only we canāt afford themā¦itās more like normal people places Iām talking about.
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An interesting take on the topic.
For me, itās the AI studio app race being won by Suno. Iāve already seen some of the free sites starting to force paywalls and such.
No and no. Carry on.
We can only guess how things will shake out ultimately. Those that have already formed opinions without direct knowledge of the platform will continue to be very vocal. Iām all in if I can expand/extend my music (which I think it does) and hear some good music utilizing AI from others (which no one here seems to be doing).