“There are ways to use AI that can actually increase human creativity”: There I Ruined It creator argues for a more nuanced view of AI in music

Dustin Ballard TED Talk.

Is AI ruining music as we know it? Is it gradually destroying musicians’ livelihoods? Or is it essential harmless and doing nothing worse than filling the Internet up with time-wasting gunk?

Perhaps it’s time we took a more nuanced view of it. That seems to be the message of a new TED talk that’s been given by Dustin Ballard, the creator of There I Ruined It, the YouTube channel that has regularly used AI to, in its own tagline, “lovingly destroy your favourite records.”