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My main reason for knowing that ArtPal is legit is because I have been paid for my affiliate work. It isn’t a lot, but ArtPal does actually payout for earnings.

In the research I have done around the internet, I haven’t really seen any stories of orders going wrong, people not receiving orders, or artists not being paid. The main complaint I have seen is that artists who purchase the $1 promotion for listings don’t see any turnaround because of it.

If you need a place for transactions to take place and you can drive traffic to ArtPal, I don’t see it as a bad option. If you are expecting to join ArtPal and let it do the advertising for you, I don’t think you’ll see as much success as you are hoping for. There is an option to put your listings at the top of search results but from what I have read, those aren’t worth it either.

Their print-on-demand products are limited, but their base price for these prints isn’t too bad compared to other print-on-demand services. More expensive than using platforms like Gelato, Printify, and Teemill, but actually less expensive than Redbubble and Society6.

When it comes to the performative aspect of music, artificial intelligence is not a concern to me. Music can transmit and represent emotion, and AI cannot do either of those things yet. And especially within jazz and creative music, music is in-the-moment composition, something that happens as musicians are collaborating onstage.

That sense of interplay, or the ability to react in the moment, is something that artificial intelligence can’t reproduce because to do that requires being intelligent and having the agency to use your curiosity and your musical vocabulary. Only then, you can be able to react and create music in the moment.

With regards to composition, we know that AI has been used to compose music for film and television for quite a few years. That is a concern because AI is doing the work that musicians used to do.

But when you hear those compositions by AI, they lack surprise, emotion, and even silence. I love dramatism in music, and for me, emotion in music is important, and AI is not there yet. As for how music gets to people, this is where we have seen tremendous changes.

The many music platforms we have, such as Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, etc., use algorithm-based features, and they make musical recommendations based on what you listen to. We all know that AI is behind it. Musicians would like to see algorithms suggest composers who are less known rather than those who are already popular.

The new technology should democratize the field, make sure that people have access to things that are outside the mainstream, and learn to recognize musical traditions that are not only from the Western world.

It’s important to welcome AI with open arms to try to understand what AI can do for us and work with it in creative ways. Any new technology is first seen as a threat to the status quo, like the way radio was received when it first aired. There have always been movements opposing those innovations.

I don’t think AI is different, but we must remember that all these innovations are man-made, and as humans we can create and innovate. As a musician, I think we should open our eyes, ears, and arms to work with the new knowledge and innovation that AI can bring.

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