Feeling worried about the impact of AI as a songwriter/producer/musician ?

This weekend, I was procrastinating (or trying to get a quiet life !) by doing some sanding work at home. I'd diarised when I was going to do this so that I knew I'd have time. I'd worked out what I needed to do, gone to the local DIY store a bought a power sander and varnish and away I went.

As I was partway through the job that was taking longer than I expected (50 years worth of varnishings takes quite a while to shift), I started thinking "I wish I'd got someone in to do this". I carried on though. It then started dawning on me that theoretically, DIY should have killed off the need for carpenters, electricians, painters and decorators etc. Now, everybody has the ability to do everything themselves, there should be no need for anyone else. Despite that though, people do still need them. The little grey cells then went into overdrive and I realised that this is just like the current situation with AI. There's now the availability for everyone to do everything themselves.

Yes, there are people who will insist on doing everything themselves to save some money and that's fine. There are plenty of other people though who will still prefer to have the job done by experts and knowing that the job will be done right. Say you're in charge of a museum and the ground floor needs repainting. You could save lots by doing it yourself. It'll probably take forever but you could do it. The more likely scenario though is that you will have a budget and will outsource the job so that you can carry on with your normal tasks that you would have had to put to one side while you did the painting.

The DIYer probably isn't expecting their handy work to be seen by hundreds, thousands, millions of people whereas the museum owner would. That is the difference. The same goes for music.

The music hobbyist probably isn't going to want to spend money hiring people to write/produce a track or get a vocalist in. They can publish their track to Spotify and they could be lucky and it takes off but chances are it'll just sit there with the other thousands of tracks that are uploaded each day. This is where we come in for those who want to take their music to the next level. We've built up our knowledge  over the years (spending a fortune in the process !!!). This puts us in a position to offer our services to people. 

And if you're anything like me, you'll realise that you should outsource form the start rather than do something to find out what your limitations are !!!