Why are many musicians OK with sampling a record made by specific human musicians, but not OK with sampling AI?
I am a musician of 30+ years, and I still think it's weird... Many musicians, who claim that they're mad about AI because it was trained on artists work without permission, are fine with using a loop played by a real human being on a real record. Which they are using without permission/attribution in most cases. That's worse, if you ask me. AI is trained on the 'thingness' of many artists, it's not 'stealing' from specific musicians, as sampling would be considered.
I'm guessing it's because of how long sampling has been around, that now musicians see it as a 'tradition,' when in fact, when sampling first started a lot of musicians were seriously anti-sampling (I remember it well).
Honestly, I feel like people should pick a lane. Be mad about all forms of sampling... or just relax.
I wonder if part of the reason many musicians are mad now is that they are trying to make very commercial trendy mainstream music, because they want to be popular/famous. Unfortunately, this is exactly what AI does well. If these musicians spent their time finding their own unique sound, AI would be much less of a threat to them. (At least until they became famous enough that AI trains on their style, and at that point, they're already going to be doing well professionally.)