Rick Beato on how easy it is to create AI music
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I watched this as soon as he released it and it was pretty horrifying - thankfully there is a huge wealth of real music from the last fifty odd years to fall back on
Suno produces a huge range of output from stuff which is basically rehashing other artists work through to stuff which is more or less original content with the 4.5+ model and a big range in quality - some genres it really struggles especially ones like trance where it has trained a lot on tunes which use a lot of low quality samples other genres it is producing close to studio level now.
In terms of what Rick is talking about I wonder where you draw the line - I made a bunch of music years ago by dragging and dropping samples in various pieces of software like Reason and EJay, etc. which wasn't that much more work than creating a prompt for AI and curating the resulting generation.
One of my first thoughts when seeing this is, for those folks that make a living from writing jingles for advertising etc are all now out of a job
AI generated music is still a long way from being able to be truly sculptured for a specific purpose, for the best output you need to be able to describe what you want using technical terms which in most cases people would only know by having an equivalent level of ability to create music themselves. But the rate of progress is scary.
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yeah seen this a while back. AI is good for medical advances etc but we seriously need to keep it out of the arts/music
it's not something i'll ever want to listen to anyway
it's not something i'll ever want to listen to anyway
For a lot of artists, I think this is true.
Similarly, if AI actors and AI scripts and whatever for films comes in, I could see theatre becoming more popular.
I assume by "new" you mean anything made in the last 60-70 years or so, as that can be said of the vast majority of music made in that time (maybe longer).
Naa, last few decades mostly. 90's and 80's slop at least had character.
Naa, last few decades mostly. 90's and 80's slop at least had character.
Rose tinted specs (or headphones) doing a lot of heavy lifting there!
"Popular" music has always been generic and derivative, with the very occasional standout track, we just conveniently forget all the dross and remember the 1-2 songs every year that were actually worth listening to!
I've found significantly more good (new) music in the last 5-10 years than in the previous 30 combined!
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If you can only find music you liked in a specific decade or two you either
- have insanely limited taste in music
- have never really crate dug or looked outside the mainstream for music
- got old and grumpy
- were never really that into music to begin with
- associate your favourite music with memories of when your were young and life was simple/fun, thus nothing new can ever compare.
At least one of these is always accurate.
It’s amazing how many middle aged people are convinced everyone stopped making good music at the exact moment they got old… a truly remarkable phenomenon, doesn’t matter what generation. You hit 40, you look at your balding head and rapidly expanding waste line and then just like that… the realisation hits that absolutely no one makes good music anymore.
- have insanely limited taste in music
- have never really crate dug or looked outside the mainstream for music
- got old and grumpy
- were never really that into music to begin with
- associate your favourite music with memories of when your were young and life was simple/fun, thus nothing new can ever compare.
At least one of these is always accurate.
It’s amazing how many middle aged people are convinced everyone stopped making good music at the exact moment they got old… a truly remarkable phenomenon, doesn’t matter what generation. You hit 40, you look at your balding head and rapidly expanding waste line and then just like that… the realisation hits that absolutely no one makes good music anymore.
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