1. Can You Make Money with AI Music?

To get straight to the point,

when it comes to the question of whether AI music production means easy money,

our view is that it is quite difficult.

Let us explain why.

The AI music genres best known for making money are background tracks you can listen to casually, starting with Lofi Hip Hop, which is considered relaxing and chill.
Many of these videos have tens of thousands to millions of views, and at first glance they don't look complicated, so it seems as if you could easily mass-produce them with AI music and video generation.

▼Lofi Hip Hop

However, when it comes to monetization,

• youtube
• ticktock
• other streaming services

and similar digital platforms generally have algorithms that judge mechanically produced content to be of low value.

YouTube in particular, which is said to pay well, may not even allow you to upload or monetize such content because it can be treated as duplicate content.

The fact that anyone can make it is another point that lowers its value in people's eyes.
This will remain true no matter how much AI improves.

As a result, our view is that views won't grow and neither will revenue.

That said, we think there are ways to earn money even with AI-based production.
The key is ideas.
If you understand what AI can do and create works that listeners have never heard before and actually enjoy, you can earn views.

Honestly, AI music tools are still weak, so
when you come up with an idea that needs a little extra work,
you'll find that
they are not good at MIDI conversion (in simple terms, breaking music down into individual notes), and editing is very difficult. As a result, you end up depending on the AI system, and it's hard to reflect the ideas you came up with.

It can even be faster to create the track yourself from scratch in a DAW.
Of course, the AI market is growing rapidly, so no one knows what will happen in the future.

You might be able to earn money by adopting a new AI system and catching the very early wave, but new systems spread quickly, so their value tends to drop and it seems difficult to keep earning over time.
What's more,
catching the very early wave
is actually quite difficult.

3. Summary

That concludes our explanation of why AI music production does not mean
easy money. The AI market is complex and keeps growing, and of course there are people who are making money, and much of it you won't know until you try. However, simply generating and uploading tracks without any ideas is almost always a tough path, so please keep this in mind.