Rick Beato on how easy it is to create AI music

Vonhelmet · 28 Sep 2025 at 12:01

Haggisman said:
I guess that comes down to the listener's choice.

If there's no skill or cost involved then they can cut out the middle man and just make their own music surely?

That’s my point, yeah. If you can download the AutoSlop app for free, or close to free, then why would you pay for anything?

Rroff · 28 Sep 2025 at 23:09

Haggisman said:
As I said before though, that sounds "OK", but ultimately is just a relatively generic sounding loop, the mastering is all off, the "instruments" don't really sound cohesive, and there's no structure or progression to it. It's inoffensive, but nobody is going to be adding it to their Spotify playlist! (no offense intended, my stuff is no better!)

Yeah - was just me doodling inspired by the opening theme for Scarface, but it isn't a huge stretch from there to AI generated music as it stands currently and as you mentioned some people probably did and do look down on people using synths, etc.

Vonhelmet · 29 Sep 2025 at 14:10

Rroff said:
Yeah - was just me doodling inspired by the opening theme for Scarface, but it isn't a huge stretch from there to AI generated music as it stands currently and as you mentioned some people probably did and do look down on people using synths, etc.

On some level a synth is just a glorified electronic church organ, which is to say we’ve been doing this for centuries. It’s stupid to dismiss synths on that basis. The question for me is whether there’s a person or a computer at the helm.

Ice Tea · Sunday at 11:35

Update from Beato later in the video on how the Music AI model is flawed.

Rroff · Sunday at 11:45

Ice Tea said:
Update from Beato later in the video on how the Music AI model is flawed.

Problem is by the time he makes a video on the issues with music AI, the AI model has often been updated to make his position redundant. He is standing against the tide.

With sufficient understanding of music and enough examples of the output generated by years of experience for the AI to learn on it can eventually extract a lot of the experience that was utilised to create it, maybe not perfectly but far more than Beato is allowing for. One thing AI does very well is reconstructing the blanks - when it has sufficient surrounding information.

molinari · Monday at 14:16

Thanks to Spotify, I've found a huge number of new artists over the last 10 years, more than I've listened to in the previous 35 years. I love new music, but I think in the last few weeks I've had 3 songs appear. One I know is AI as it's in the artist waffle, but the other 2 I can't find anything about them online at all so they seem suspect. I'd rather keep AI out of my playlist, I hope Spotify can give us that choice.

Rroff · Monday at 14:27

molinari said:
Thanks to Spotify, I've found a huge number of new artists over the last 10 years, more than I've listened to in the previous 35 years. I love new music, but I think in the last few weeks I've had 3 songs appear. One I know is AI as it's in the artist waffle, but the other 2 I can't find anything about them online at all so they seem suspect. I'd rather keep AI out of my playlist, I hope Spotify can give us that choice.

I don't mind AI generated music - some people do put quite a bit of effort into it, but I do like to see proper accreditation.

rids57 · Tuesday at 05:53

Thing is, when AI eventually prices real artists out of the market, who is going to play the live shows?

IvanDobskey · Tuesday at 07:22

I think most modern chart music is soulless AI generated crap.

Rroff · Wednesday at 21:39

Spotify getting flooded with AI slop again - 1/3rd of my Discover Weekly is AI generated with maybe 1-2 any good and the rest obviously production line fire and forget prompt to publish.

rids57 · Thursday at 05:54

I found my first one on Qobuz last night (Neural Dawn) - I don't think they even know it's AI

wesimmo · Thursday at 07:27

I've started seeing a lot of these knocking around, people using AI to do 50s style covers of hip hop songs.

The thing is....I don’t hate them, some of them i actually kind of like and I don't know how to feel about that.

Rroff · Thursday at 23:13

wesimmo said:
The thing is....I don’t hate them, some of them i actually kind of like and I don't know how to feel about that.

I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with AI music - what matters really is the end product.

The two main issues really are where AI music can't generate anything properly distinct, even if influenced, from music which already exists and created by someone else and the slop where people are just production line style generating and publishing music from text input with no care.