AM Agency

 You're not convinced with my forecast that Suno will release a new Michael Jackson album.

My second forecast though is within the boundary of physical law. Just as some tiny sounds cannot be captured without a good mic like a condenser, AM development although very fast is about to hit the limit of its physics. So what is my second forecast? Robot drummer, guitarist, pianist, will be set inside a real studio to play as it is told or programmed to capture the real quality of HM. It will still sound non-spontaneous though, like a robot that doesn't sway from its timing, but nonetheless loosing now it's artificial noise. Supreme Court will by then decide that robot music cannot be copyrighted as well.

That's not my main point though. It's the agency we are actually giving an AM app if we prompt it to make a Michael Jackson's One Day In Your Life inspired song on a lyrics you give it. It is limited by the training it has received even from so many HM. Nonetheless it was able to do all the job of a musical production team in just seconds. And although it's finished product sounds subpar from a HM produced by a record label, its compositional arrangement algorithm and choice of sound to include and utilize, according to most independent producers, is way better (but now sounds similarly the same).

Its agency is limited by its plugins cooked inside a computer or server. And human ears can now categorize them through familiarity.

Do you know that before generative AI (Pre-2022), roughly 60,000 to 100,000 songs per day are uploaded on major platforms like Spotify? After generative AI was invented (2023-2026), estimated 150,000 to 300,000 songs per day are uploaded across all distribution services. (Gemini 3 Fast)

We can actually produce so many HM already even before AM arrived, although I listen mostly to English and Tagalog songs only and some breakaway popular foreign language song to me. Many ears have judged it's worthiness to be heared before it may even be heard by casual listeners. So yes, most of these thousand songs just never went noticed or made popular.

Those you deleted in Udio never impressed you in the first place that counts too in the 300,000 maximum estimation, if you ever wonder.

We already have so many agency as human beings in creating songs. (You can also say that we already have so many human being workers to give jobs to.)

Nevertheless, AI and robots can do repetitive and menial jobs, unbecoming of the dignity of a human worker.

Although AM just made song creation fast and cheap, its value is rather hidden in availing human beings better songs to choose from or even customizing songs to one's personal taste or need.

In the musical world, we aren't giving away our agency for nothing. (In Philosophy of Man, only human beings have full agency throughout all the known universe.) From a simple sharp stone flakes for chopping to a complex AI, human beings just evolved to create tools to help himself.

Nevertheless, we're not giving away full agency without limit even to Anthropic's models. They have their boundaries clearly layed out. What I mean is that these tools will be able to help our full agency only for the best since these AI tools are limited in agency naturally. So you can actually make your song more creative just like how you imagine it even with the help of these tools. AM songs will be similar sounding, subpar in quality, limited to its previous training. You have the full capacity as a human being for real novelty if not freedom for composing, not limited by any algorithm, if just given the chance to access all the very expensive musical resources, if you actually have that genuine love for music and song writing. Of course, we're just getting to know AM limitations maybe that's why.

Not totally just setting aside our concern for job security, sloth sounds like slop. Don't blame AIs and robots if actually you just don't want to even move or live your life.

In depth, these AM apps has no agency, no capacity to feel or communicate it, no understanding and capacity for meaning. And now you know why it's capacity for creating music is more limited than what our first impression just cannot see yet. It just combines previous sound from its HM training without any understanding, without any emotion. 

To music producers though, it has become a discovery tool, where it captures a new combination of popular sound human beings prefer, but haven't yet been produced and made public, and limited human hearing haven't yet explored, and limited sound technology haven't yet easily manipulated and utilized yet.