Opportunity or Destruction? Facing the AI Crisis in Music
Killed by Machines
A Creative Perspective by: Emel Tuaiti
Lately, with the rapid rise of AI technologies, one question rings louder and louder in the air: where lies the fine line between expanding our possibilities and destroying them?
Neural networks have devalued the years of work of thousands of creative people — musicians, artists, writers.
I have studied music since the age of six at an academic music school, later focusing on music production and mixing.
From childhood, I also read extensively and learned to express myself in words — that helped me write meaningful song lyrics.
And it pains me to see how machines try to replace our priceless, unique human experience and labor.
The saddest part is that AI-generated products are often nothing more than shameless copies of existing works. They are derivative, lack depth, and sometimes border on the absurd — like an AI-generated gospel track.
Yet in our culture of fast consumption, it has become nearly impossible for creators who spend months crafting something genuine and meaningful to compete with machines that produce tons of mediocre music every single day.
AI tools also create nearly limitless opportunities for plagiarism. New DAWs already allow users to literally extract ready-made parts from someone else’s music and use them at will.
I poured all the pain in my heart — and my plea to stop this neural-network madness — into my latest song.
Is There Salvation?
The only thing left for us in these challenging times is to stay true to ourselves.
To create — not because we must, but because we can’t not create. Because, unlike machines, for us it’s a matter of meaning and values.
We must seek new paths for artistic expression — those that can’t be calculated, those that lie beyond trivial algorithms.
To remain vulnerable, imperfect, sincere, and unpredictable.
To remain human.
Artist Bio: Emel Tuaiti is a songwriter, music and sound producer, singer from Ukraine.
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