Also: People (especially kids, students, etc) who want to make music but don't have the technical expertise to (yet?).
Obviously these tools don't do everything necessary to make great music, but the barrier of entry to making music is being lowered, and the quality floor is being raised -- and that'll result in a lot more would-be "musicians"[0] creating music that wouldn't otherwise exist[1].
[0] I leave the argument of whether these generative musicians count as "real" musicians to the Scotsmen in the audience.
[1] Bonus question: does art still hold value if no one sees it?
o1's take on your bonus question seems reasonable :
Yes. Art can have intrinsic and personal value for its creator, independent of any external audience. Unseen art lacks immediate external value [to others] but retains latent worth, potentially realized when discovered or appreciated in the future.
This comes up quite a lot - lowering the barrier to entry for creating a bunch of media that wouldn't otherwise exist.
Eh I don't think the world is exactly clamoring for even more music.
I can't speak for everyone's process, but if you don't know how to make music, I'm not convinced that this allows you to do so because the medium of input (aka writing text) is far too divergent from the resultant melodic output to allow for any kind of meaningful individuality.
> Also: People (especially kids, students, etc) who want to make music but don't have the technical expertise to (yet?).
But fuck all the people who have a career teaching them those skills as a part of a thousands-year long artistic tradition whose value isn't solely defined by the exchange of currency for lessons, but in that it subsidizes those artists' work which goes unpaid and furthers human experience.
It's wonderful techies with a surface level knowledge of the arts are cannibalizing the entire supply chain and marketplace so they can make a buck off the AI craze.
The barrier to entry is already zero. AI lowers the ceiling, not the floor.
Obviously these tools don't do everything necessary to make great music, but the barrier of entry to making music is being lowered, and the quality floor is being raised -- and that'll result in a lot more would-be "musicians"[0] creating music that wouldn't otherwise exist[1].
[0] I leave the argument of whether these generative musicians count as "real" musicians to the Scotsmen in the audience.
[1] Bonus question: does art still hold value if no one sees it?