AI’s impact on audio production has, of course, become a hot topic in the game music world.
As a musician I feel like AI is currently destroying music. It won’t generate anything new or truly creative, but damn does it make “good enough” take 10 seconds.
It depends what your standard is for good enough, honestly. If you’re making art for the art, I certainly haven’t seen anything from AI music that seems actually artful, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable putting my music out into the world that didn’t feel like art to me. If you’re churning out 30 second jingles for advertising or microtransaction-riddled mobile games, maybe then the standard is lower
E: of course, if “good enough” is “enough to make a C suite douchebag give it the okay with dollar signs in their eyes” then yeah.
I remember meeting someone at an event that told me how great it was.
His argument was, “can you even tell it’s AI?”
I said my biggest problem is that it’s destroying new artists and original music.
Well that makes me feel less bad about the situation regarding my own career issues currently. If a dude like this can have trouble, anyone can.
@timsweeney what were you saying about employers seeing streams of resumes after laying off a thousand Epic employees?
i’ve seen people do fifty resumes A WEEK to basically the same result
Now that I think about it, I’ve only had two situations in my ~15 year career where I was able to get a job via a “cold application”. One of them was the worst employement experience of my life. The other one was great.
There was some level of “getting my foot in the door” with all my other jobs. Internship after my Masters program, meeting someone at an non-work event and getting hired via former employers/colleagues.
That really sucks for your friends. I’ve been there and it really kills motivation.
I keep thinking of that manager that sent in a perfect resume for the job he posted, because HR denied all applicants, and it proved that HR was using some bogus AI or algorithmic filter to auto deny resumes.
But it doesn’t have to be AI. A former colleague of mine (who had both on the factory floor experience , all the way up the ladder over decades, and an MBA) was looking for a high level job and took 6 months of bogus interviews where HR keeps having you come back only to deny it at the end. For same role some said Overqualified and some HR said not enough experience. Lol pick one.
Yep. When I got laid off last year my goal was 10 applications a day.
Most resulted in no response. Of those who did respond, most were boilerplate rejection emails.
Did you find a job yet?
Yes, I did, with a local company instead of a remote company like I worked at previously.
Used to work in film audio post-production. Saw the writing on the wall the moment the AI cancer start to spread and moved to a new line of work. Really sad to see this.
Why aren’t they syndicalizing?
For better or worse, I don’t think it’s viable.
Just my opinion, but I think we would need some sort of new model. ‘The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.’ and all that…
Syndicalism is the “new model” that supports workers, not capitalists. It’s worked b4.
I am all for it.
As I said, just my opinion that we will need something radically new, something suitable for the challenges of the information age.
50?! Those are some rookie numbers, my guy… You’re not gonna see any movement on that chart until you bump up that input by orders of magnitude. 🥴🤌🏼
His field isn’t that big in total.
Aw, is this his first pivot? That’s darling. 🤌🏼
He could automate the resumes with ai!?
