Hi, I'm William A. Ferguson, the first GC musician on Substack. Founding Member, AI Music Creators Association (AIMCA). BRA 🐇
Joined April 2025
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It’s a fucking national defense imperative.
I mean, have you seen Ukraine?
Trench warfare with autonomous and remote operated kinetic weapons platforms?
That’s what the 21st century battlefield look like.
For us Gen X, this is where the slide begins. Please form an orderly queue.
Goodbye Sir Patrick. 😭
RIP Captain Picard 😢
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The loudest critics of AI are furry artists who got nuked out of work because ChatGPT and Midjourney did their $15 drawings better than them
"Slop" is work that is low effort and low intent. I'm pro-AI, and anti-slop.
By low intent I mean the ratio of creative decisions being made by you vs by the AI. If the scale tips too far towards the AI, it's not your vision anymore.
But there is so much nuance to using these tools in 2026. You can get very involved, give detailed notes and feedback, make minor changes, and iterate just like you would giving feedback to a human collaborator.
This makes you a director, and an artist.
Again, to remind all the anti-AI chuds:
If you think prompting is the only way to get anything out of AI you, my friends, are a pack of goddamn clowns. 🤡
Someone’s salty he can’t get anyone to read his books
There are only 12 notes in the Western chromatic scale, standard pop song structures are repetitive, and chord progressions (like the ubiquitous I–V–vi–IV) are shared across thousands of tracks. The math alone guarantees accidental collisions.
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If that was true, then every gender clinic on the planet would use MRIs to diagnose the condition. They do not because it is not true
It isn’t that simple.
Think making great AI music is just pressing a button? Think again. It's not as easy as people think. soaplandtv.co.uk/article/nic…
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I could watch this all day.
More please...😁
Much more!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video is an AI-generated montage of fictional clips, not real footage of Minnesota events.
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In musicology and copyright law, it's called subconscious plagiarism or cryptomnesia.
A songwriter hears a melody, tucks it away in their long-term memory, and years later, their brain dredges it back up under the illusion that it's a fresh, original bolt of inspiration.
When you consider that 99% of popular Western music relies on the exact same handful of scale degrees and 4-chord loops, every songwriter alive is essentially working in the ultimate sustainable industry.
