Ai music

[paulpablo]

I just downloaded and subscribed to suno ai and my mind is blown.
It's an app where you type in what you want it to make and it does it is the best way to describe it.
Ive just been sitting making music for myself that is better than anything ive ever made before and rivals all the best artists I've ever heard, with some minor limitations.
There's some limitations ive found, for example I like the band placebo, I couldn't get it to replicate an androgynous nasal voice, it can do gritty wild screeching voices but I just couldn't get it to do a voice like that.
Complex interesting rhythms like youd get with some system of a down or arctic monkeys were harder to reproduce. Or distinctive intros like sad but true. But maybe it just takes more specific prompts to achieve these things.
Some things are definitely just dead now in the music industry and I think its actually the more raw, human, created music that is the safest. Rock, country stuff like this, if its unique enough will still be safe.
Beat making for genres like rap music is pretty much as dead as a door nail, at least in the way it used to be done, this will 100 percent be taken over by ai. I can't even begin to imagine how it won't be.
On the other hand, just as an example off the top of my head I cant imagine ai making a song as unique as thr chain by fleetwood mac, the structure, the bass line.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I didn’t spend decades of my life becoming slightly better than mediocre on a range of instruments to turn music over to Skynet, tyvm.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Anyone, person or computer, can put together pabulum. Art requires creativity, not rehash.

[Rev. Rye]

Does writing multiple songs around the theme "I got so wasted I forgot the safeword for this BDSM session" require creativity? This isn't a rhetorical question, BTB, I legitimately want to know.








(not included because it doesn't have its own Youtube video: the song "Got High Forgot Safe Word," which is, if the runtimes are any indication, a different song from the ones posted above.)

[Jackalope]

Anyone, person or computer, can put together pabulum. Art requires creativity, not rehash.

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As a musician, AI as a tool does not appeal to me at all. Music is an expression of mind and body and soul. AI can provide none of that.

[Rev. Rye]

In fairness, that depends: how are we using it? The recent work Peter Jackson's done with the Beatles' old work proved it actually does have a place in music, even if it's just in the way of creating stems from old recordings and making half-century-old recordings sound new. But using it as a substitute for actual creative work is a nonstarter. Unless, of course, the AI just wrote some really ridiculous songs.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

When AI can come up with something to compare with the immortal Ninth, talk to me.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

In fairness, that depends: how are we using it? The recent work Peter Jackson's done with the Beatles' old work proved it actually does have a place in music, even if it's just in the way of creating stems from old recordings and making half-century-old recordings sound new. But using it as a substitute for actual creative work is a nonstarter. Unless, of course, the AI just wrote some really ridiculous songs.

I reject the premise of music as product. Music is expression. Ball-bearings and washing machines are product.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In fairness, that depends: how are we using it? The recent work Peter Jackson's done with the Beatles' old work proved it actually does have a place in music, even if it's just in the way of creating stems from old recordings and making half-century-old recordings sound new. But using it as a substitute for actual creative work is a nonstarter. Unless, of course, the AI just wrote some really ridiculous songs.

I reject the premise of music as product. Music is expression. Ball-bearings and washing machines are product.

And AI is not and will never be a replacement for musical talent. If you can't be arsed to learn three chords in two keys (which will cover a surprising number of songs), get out of music and settle for honest work.

Boru

[paulpablo]

Anyone, person or computer, can put together pabulum. Art requires creativity, not rehash.

Most art is creatively rehashing things with subtle changes so I'd say its a combination.