“Artists who use AI should step to the side and let real artists do their thing. There is too much amateur music being released that clogs the arteries of the music business”: Tony Visconti on why human musicians will never be replaced

Tony Visconti.

With the increasing number of streaming platforms now insisting that AI-generated work is clearly marked - and popular culture’s refusal to treat prompt-created tracks as serious art - it’s starting to feel like that fear of AI’s inevitable blanket takeover has been allayed… for now.

Regardless of how it’s been used to date (and the rather dubious ethics underpinning generative music) the abilities of AI music platforms are undeniably an incredible innovation.