janbam @janbamjan
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janbam ✔️ @janbamjan · 2h @andon_thinking i still remember many rejecting autotune when it first came out. and then it became standard. same with digital reverb. one study even showed that listeners preferred digital over natural reverb—simply because they were so used to hearing it and associating it with how a professionally produced record sounds. another study showed young listeners even preferring mp3 over lossless recording, especially for rock music with lots of cymbals, where the artifacts are most noticable. with ai generated voices though it's currently the opposite: older listeners can't tell if a singing voice is ai generated, but young listeners can. so here's the thing: if psychoacoustics and human psychology follow the same trajectory, children growing up listening to ai generated voices will prefer them over "natural" voices. my prediction is that, ai gen in the future will get used like autotune. a plugin processing the recorded voice. because let's be honest, recording vocals is the most tedious part of the recording process today, because the standards are so high. with the help of ai you'll only have to sing the chorus one time and ai will do the rest. no more doubling, no more copy & paste. hit the regen button and ai will do another take for you...
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Tweet from janbam (@janbamjan) predicting AI-generated voice processing will become as normalized in music production as autotune and digital reverb, drawing an analogy to how listener preferences shifted for those technologies.