I did stumble on an interesting AI use that seems super legit for creatives:
There’s an AI powered app for a specific brand of guitar amplifier. If you want your guitar to sound like a particular artist or a particular song, you tell it via a natural language input and it does all the adjustments for you.
You STILL have to have the personal talent to, you know, PLAY the guitar, but it saves you hours of fiddling with dials and figuring out what effects and pedals to apply to get the sound you’re looking for.
Video, same player, same guitar, same amp, multiple sounds:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wsGj4zsfOuQ
From a purely artistic perspective, this would be like asking AI for a Pantone or RGB palette set for a specific work of art. All it’s doing is telling you the colors so you can avoid doing all the research and mixing yourself.
How you USE those colors? That’s on you!
Philosophical quote from my favorite politician:
“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky, they are people who say ‘this is my community and it’s my responsibility to make it better.’”
- Tom McCall, Oregon Governor, 1967-1975.