Techlos
GenAI isn't inherently anti-artist or anti-humanity, but genAI when implemented and controlled by large tech corporations inevitably ends up causing harm.
I'm definitely against the current paradigm of incredibly massive models; they have a clear harm in terms of their energy cost and data requirements. But the machine learning practised by tech giants isn't the whole field; i'm personally working on an album where i've taken a small wavenet model, trained it on my own stems, and use it to generate new sounds conditioned on what music i've already laid out. You could call it a duet i guess.
The training cost in energy was lower than what a refrigerator uses in a day. And most of all, i am the only artist involved and i'm telling you directly i'm not harmed by this. Machine learning isn't the problem, it's the capitalist mindset directing how machine learning is used.