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       AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT
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       Author : amichail
       Score  : 537 points
       Date   : 2024-04-04 13:57 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | EwanG wrote:
       | Amusing, as well as a decent ad for the latest version of Suno.ai
        
       | pk-protect-ai wrote:
       | Absolutely amazing!
        
       | donbrae wrote:
       | Impressive! Quite a nice song, too.
        
       | JacksonWaschura wrote:
       | Wow! I hadn't kept up with music generation for the past few
       | years. It's come a long way!
       | 
       | Long-term coherence, reasonable-ish melody, all on top of very
       | unmusical text. Very impressive.
        
       | xedrac wrote:
       | The song really picks up when you get to the all CAPS section.
        
       | tivert wrote:
       | Twitter is stupid now, so I can only see the linked post. But are
       | there instructions to replicate this, and has anyone done so?
       | Just kind of skeptical of videos of demos in general.
       | 
       | If this is legit, the Spotify spam is going to become atrocious
       | and probably unmanageable.
        
         | donbrae wrote:
         | The actual page at suno.ai: https://app.suno.ai/song/da6d4a83-1
         | 001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0....
        
         | huytersd wrote:
         | Yeah you can generate any type of song with really good results
         | on suno.ai
        
         | codingdave wrote:
         | Yeah, it works, and doesn't need any technical instructions.
         | Just go make a song on suno.ai.
         | 
         | I had done a folk song version of my resume. It wasn't going to
         | become a hit or anything, so I don't see this replacing any
         | real musicians, but it absolutely worked to create a passable
         | performance as a song.
        
         | cruano wrote:
         | The Spotify spam _is_ already atrocious and unmanageable. If
         | anything, it might get a little bit more creative instead of
         | people just publishing the same samples from Splice everywhere.
        
       | sigmar wrote:
       | The delivery of "(the 'software')" at 0:21 had me chuckling.
        
         | cwillu wrote:
         | Mer chan ta billlll iiii tttyyyyyy
        
         | buzzm wrote:
         | Agreed! Unexpected and made my morning.
        
         | navane wrote:
         | I hoped for a choir when I saw the al caps section coming, and
         | I was not disappointed.
        
       | n4r9 wrote:
       | Some strange and funny vocal aberrations here:
       | 
       | * sublicence - "sublissence"
       | 
       | * fitness - "fisted"
       | 
       | * infringement - "infring-ment"
       | 
       | * liable - "liar-ful"
       | 
       | It's also obviously not a pure human voice recording as the pitch
       | transitions sound heavily auto-tuned or electrified (think Cher's
       | "Believe").
       | 
       | I anticipate people becoming experts in detecting AI-generated
       | vocalists in much the same way that we can currently detect AI-
       | generated images due to abnormalities especially in details like
       | ears or fingers.
        
         | haolez wrote:
         | And I also expect that, very soon, we won't be able to tell
         | them apart anymore (like those wine experts that fail to detect
         | the good wines if blindfolded).
        
           | Etheryte wrote:
           | That fail to detect even whether they're having white wine or
           | red wine.*
        
             | arketyp wrote:
             | I've heard this, and I would have been inclined to believe
             | it. But then I watched the documentary Somm about the
             | journey of a couple of friends reaching for the highest
             | rankings of sommeliers. They could identify grapes, regions
             | and year with striking accuracy. I just don't see how you
             | could do that and then not be able to tell white and red
             | wine apart.
        
               | vundercind wrote:
               | I barely know what I'm doing with wine but am 100% sure I
               | could at least tell you which are whites and which reds
               | if you lined up a typical Chardonnay, a typical Pinot
               | Grigio, a typical cab sauv, and a typical Pinot noir.
               | 
               | I am certain there exist weird wines that could fool me
               | (I've had a few _really_ weird wines) but typical shit
               | from the grocery store, I'm gonna be able to tell at
               | least that much. I might even ID them more precisely than
               | red or white. It's not exactly subtle...
               | 
               | Then again I don't have a clue how someone could fail to
               | tell which is coke and which Pepsi in the "Pepsi
               | challenge". They're wildly different flavors. I can tell
               | by smell alone.
        
               | n4r9 wrote:
               | I vaguely remember looking into this before, and it
               | turned out that the tasters were being _told_
               | (incorrectly) that it was a red wine, and asked to
               | describe the flavour profile. They then used tasting
               | terms more frequently associated with reds than with
               | whites, and didn 't question what they were told.
               | 
               | So it's less a case of "they cannot distinguish red from
               | white" and more a case of "they went along with a
               | suggested classification". I feel like this is a weaker
               | result, although it's still a little surprising.
        
               | arketyp wrote:
               | Thanks. Together with GP's point about the possibility of
               | weird wines, it seems reasonable that one could go along
               | quite far on a false premise.
        
               | notnaut wrote:
               | My feeling is there is the high level classification
               | which is quite difficult to fuck up. After that it's all
               | adjectives and analogues, which is the fluffed up
               | phoniness that inherently presents itself in the process
               | of converting our subjective experiences of physical
               | reality into abstract symbols.
        
               | yongjik wrote:
               | Yeah, but that still shows people's perception of wine is
               | barely above noise level, if it can be so easily misled.
               | 
               | For comparison, imagine someone showing a piece of
               | Picasso to art critics and saying "Could you please
               | describe the artistic significance of this painting by da
               | Vinci?" The critics won't start using terms commonly
               | reserved for Renaissance era; they'll say "What the fuck
               | are you talking about, this isn't da Vinci."
        
               | wizzwizz4 wrote:
               | Both artists are dead. It is possible to learn all of
               | their paintings. It is not possible to learn all of the
               | wines.
        
               | gpm wrote:
               | That sounds a lot weaker.
               | 
               | Quick, label all the US states:
               | https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/label_the_states.png
               | 
               | I've given this map to half a dozen smart/well educated
               | Canadians, who happily engaged in pointing out the states
               | they recognized for several minutes, and not one of them
               | noticed until it was pointed out.
        
               | ska wrote:
               | I suspect it would work nearly as well on many Americans.
        
               | vundercind wrote:
               | What's the joke? Looks normal. I see Thirdmont.
               | Indiantwo. Yep, ordinary map.
        
               | lupire wrote:
               | So? That's focusing on what they know and not having time
               | to notice the extra. Different from making incorrect
               | statements
        
               | nrclark wrote:
               | A lot of the biggest perceived differences come from
               | temperature, since red wines are usually served at room-
               | temperature. If you ever decide to do a blind test, make
               | sure to control for temperature. I did it, and I had a
               | very hard time picking out which varietals were red and
               | which were white.
        
               | gamblor956 wrote:
               | I rarely drink wine (less than 1x every few years) and I
               | can tell the difference between a red wine and a white
               | wine, and subcategories of red wines (and I do
               | specifically mean the _difference_ , so that means only
               | when compared to another wine).
               | 
               | The hard part is _identifying_ the type of wine, but many
               | of my wine-drinking friends can do with ease. We 've
               | tried the "test," having me or someone else randomly
               | purchase wines from the closest store and then serving
               | random samples to them while they're blindfolded. They're
               | able to identify the specific variety more than 4/5 of
               | the time.
        
               | svachalek wrote:
               | Yeah, I'm sure a lot of these tasters are overly
               | pretentious. But some people are willing to go the
               | opposite extreme and think people can't taste anything.
               | Can anyone tell the difference between Coke and Sprite?
               | Between Coke and Pepsi? Coke and Diet Coke? Of course we
               | can. The difference between a typical pinot noir, syrah,
               | or cabernet sauvignon is not something it takes magic
               | powers to differentiate. Now specific years, wineries,
               | etc, now that raises questions.
        
             | littlestymaar wrote:
             | This one only shows you poor "expertise" more than
             | anything, as it is standard exercise while training to
             | become a wine expert in France (they also give students
             | white wine that have been red-colored or otherwise tempered
             | with), so I wouldn't expect any legit expert to be fooled
             | this way. Though it's true that with some wines it can be
             | tough initially for enlightened amateurs.
             | 
             | Source: my wife's godfather did the studies for that[1] two
             | years ago.
             | 
             | [1]: https://www.isvv.u-bordeaux.fr/fr/diplome-
             | universitaire-dapt...
        
             | reducesuffering wrote:
             | I believed this myth until I actually tried it blind with a
             | handful of wine novices, and every one could tell them
             | apart.
        
           | n4r9 wrote:
           | As far as I can tell, AI image generation still struggles
           | with some things after many years of research and is often
           | detectable. Perhaps vocals is easier though.
        
             | ancientworldnow wrote:
             | It's like cgi, you only recognize bad examples of it while
             | the good ones go right past you. I've got plenty of ai
             | generations that fool professional photo retouchers - it
             | just takes more time and some custom tooling.
        
               | throwup238 wrote:
               | _> I 've got plenty of ai generations that fool
               | professional photo retouchers - it just takes more time
               | and some custom tooling._
               | 
               | What's a good place to find out the SOTA of the custom
               | tooling and workflow?
        
               | zzzzzzzzzz10 wrote:
               | Comfyui + civitai. 4chan and reddit threads if you want
               | to go deep
        
               | ptx wrote:
               | > _It 's like cgi_
               | 
               | Right. Full of code injection vulnerabilities.
        
             | VelesDude wrote:
             | From audio video editing experience years back, it is much
             | easier to slip some cheap audio cuts past people than
             | visual ones.
        
           | gosub100 wrote:
           | The non-singing TTS are barely discernible now. I watch a lot
           | of narration-heavy edu-tainment on YouTube and often the only
           | way I can detect TTS is the consistent monotone and uniform
           | syllable cadence. There can be 15 minutes before a single
           | mispronounced word is spoken. That could be a preview of
           | what's to come with AI video.
        
           | jackspratts wrote:
           | if by very soon you mean already then. yeah. i can't anyway,
           | and i'm in the business.- js.
           | 
           | https://soundcloud.com/rs-539916550/soul-of-the-
           | machine?utm_...
        
         | Traubenfuchs wrote:
         | The average modern pop songs boasts a worse voice that sounds
         | more autotuned than this AI song here. The biggest problem to
         | me is how the voice appears to be shaky.
        
           | Martinussen wrote:
           | I'm going to go out on a limb and say you don't listen to
           | much "modern pop" - the production quality of the biggest
           | mainstream pop is _extremely_ high at this point, and while
           | "worse voice" is obviously subjective, this really wouldn't
           | be anything stand-out in that regard even if it didn't sound
           | like a robot.
        
         | Retr0id wrote:
         | And I'm sure a skilled editor could already edit out those
         | tells.
        
           | OmarShehata wrote:
           | At that point, is it AI generated?? That feels like an
           | entirely different category to me
           | 
           | (like it's sort of no difference than paying someone to voice
           | something and share it)
           | 
           | I think the stuff that is completely generated with no human
           | in the loop is a different category for me because it can be
           | used for things at scale like, bots on social media, or ads
           | in a podcast generated just for you, etc. As long as there is
           | still a human in the loop making the editing decisions, it
           | feels not categorically different from the world we have
           | today.
        
             | Retr0id wrote:
             | That's a fair point, but "ai does the work and humans clean
             | up the mistakes" is generally a lot faster than humans
             | doing all the work. Singing well takes skill (even when you
             | have autotune), splicing together multiple "takes" into one
             | good recording, less so.
        
             | gpm wrote:
             | I'm never going to have the voice to sing this, but I can
             | easily imagine learning how to edit it.
             | 
             | AI/Human combos can still be valuable. More broadly I'd
             | argue that that's how almost all tech works. E.g. there are
             | still textile workers, just many less of them producing
             | much more clothing.
        
             | tombert wrote:
             | I would say it's still categorically different, just
             | because we're automating one piece of labor that was kind
             | of thought until about ~12 years ago to be un-automatible.
             | 
             | Like, there's been computer-singing voices for awhile, but
             | they always sounded pretty robotic and goofy (e.g.
             | Microsoft Sam), and I think for a long time people just
             | assumed that to get mostly-realistic voices, you need an
             | actual singer. Yes, it still requires a bit of human
             | tweaking to make it perfect, but I suspect that if put to
             | the test it would reduce the cost of making a song
             | substantially.
        
         | nostrademons wrote:
         | Many human vocalists have similar aberrations. Remember Jimi
         | Hendrix "Excuse me while I kiss this guy", or the notorious
         | autotune on a number of contemporary pop artists (you gave an
         | example yourself)?
         | 
         | IMHO many of the successes of "artificial intelligence" come
         | from "natural stupidity". Humans have many glitches in our
         | perceptual mechanisms. The AIs that end up going viral and
         | become commercially viable tend to exploit those perceptual
         | glitches, simply because that's what makes them appeal to
         | people.
        
           | n4r9 wrote:
           | The difference between this and Hendrix's "kiss this guy" is
           | that you can listen to it and plausibly believe that Hendrix
           | _is actually_ saying  "the sky". In the linked track you know
           | the actual words but it still doesn't sound like them.
        
         | latexr wrote:
         | > I anticipate people becoming experts in detecting AI-
         | generated vocalists in much the same way that we can currently
         | detect AI-generated images due to abnormalities especially in
         | details like ears or fingers.
         | 
         | People fail to identify even the most basic and obvious fakes,
         | but somehow there's a group of people who think that as fakes
         | become harder to distinguish from reality, we'll all magically
         | become experts at it. We won't. People's ability to detect
         | fakes will get worse, not better, as a consequence of more
         | prevalent and better fakes.
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U1HMqtam90
        
         | thenickdude wrote:
         | You can fix most misspoken words by tweaking the lyrics. e.g.
         | in my most recent song it pronounced "pasting" from "copying
         | and pasting" as "past-ing.
         | 
         | I just rewrote the lyrics as "paste-ing" and it sung it
         | perfectly afterwards.
        
       | b3lvedere wrote:
       | I was wondering if she would sing really loud at the ALL CAPS
       | sections, but fortunately she did not. Still better than most
       | Eurovision Contest songs :)
        
         | tgv wrote:
         | But the accompaniment changed. Very uplifting.
        
         | mintplant wrote:
         | Disagree, Eurovision is stacked this year!
        
         | ccozan wrote:
         | I have my song ready, now I need to know how can I make a video
         | clip based on it?
        
           | thenickdude wrote:
           | My approach to generating a music video was to generate
           | scenes using DALL-E 3, and then animate those using Stable
           | Video Diffusion (SVD).
           | 
           | SVD doesn't have well-controllable motion and is utterly
           | blown out of the water by Sora, but it's what we have right
           | now.
           | 
           | Here's the resulting vid, "a death metal song about a macro
           | photographer":
           | 
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNVRQ1Zg-a0
           | 
           | If you only want a video file from Suno to share with the
           | default static lyrics screen on it, hit Download Video from
           | the three-dots menu.
        
       | visarga wrote:
       | I made one too:
       | https://twitter.com/visarga/status/1775663297297084840
       | 
       | the ending is cool and unexpected
        
         | kybernetikos wrote:
         | unfortunately twitter links don't work for me (I don't know
         | why). Do you have the suno link?
        
       | DonHopkins wrote:
       | Now do The Ballad of ICCCM!
       | 
       | https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/ICCCM...
        
         | fetzu wrote:
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/1dc75742-0e0e-4d5a-97b6-d00b9cffc2f...
         | or
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/19b86cb0-3f4a-4ed4-9aae-c9c2604321f...
         | 
         | And the overproduced version:
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/1e0bf4e2-7850-4401-85db-799a763f732...
        
           | DonHopkins wrote:
           | Giving Up Selection Ownership
           | 
           | https://app.suno.ai/song/86040709-94f1-4de1-8703-7b306b48b32.
           | ..
           | 
           | ICCCM Summary of Window Manager Property Types
           | 
           | https://app.suno.ai/song/52d08a23-8e1e-4f03-8e8c-e4df610cef9.
           | ..
        
       | isodev wrote:
       | The girl is sad because we don't know the name of the
       | people/artists on which the music and her voice is modelled.
        
         | titzer wrote:
         | In the great web tradition of harvesting the vast body of other
         | people's work in the large[1] and shoving it through huge
         | amounts of computation to wring out a nickel's worth of value
         | that will eventually manifest in some good-paying SWE jobs, a
         | rich executive class, and a whole lot of shareholder value and
         | inevitably mutate in another goddamn ad-serving platform.
         | 
         | [1] Ha, the poor millions of dumb minions who put their work on
         | the web thinking it might be fun for others or garner
         | themselves a small following, they didn't check the terms of
         | the EULA!
        
           | commandlinefan wrote:
           | I wonder if this won't drive a resurgence of demand for live
           | performances - as recording becomes more and more artificial,
           | live performance will mean more. (Or maybe, as a live
           | performer, I'm just wishful thinking here...)
        
           | paulddraper wrote:
           | Generally speaking, people create internet content so that it
           | is shared.
           | 
           | All of the creators and subjects of meme formats... Should
           | they receive royalty every time you post some inane mashup?
        
             | titzer wrote:
             | This is not that. We're not talking about some inane
             | mashup, but a wholesale digestion of every creative thing
             | any person ever did by a monster computer cluster whose
             | scale dwarfs imagination, which then promptly uses it to
             | maximize "engagement" to gather eyeballs to feed them
             | advertising. It's profoundly messed up.
        
               | paulddraper wrote:
               | The cost of that computer cluster must also dwarf
               | imagination.
               | 
               | I don't begrudge crypto miners either.
        
               | titzer wrote:
               | I wasn't aware of a right to recoup the costs of any bad
               | idea, which seems to be what you're implying here.
               | Because computers, therefore profit? Huh?
        
               | paulddraper wrote:
               | The earlier comment was "vast work", so the size of
               | effort is somehow relevant to the discussion.
        
               | titzer wrote:
               | It isn't. If a serial killer spent a week digging mass
               | graves by hand, they don't get years taken off their
               | sentence. You don't get points just for working hard or
               | spending money, particularly when it cheapens or just
               | appropriates other people's work.
        
               | newswasboring wrote:
               | > which then promptly uses it to maximize "engagement" to
               | gather eyeballs to feed them advertising.
               | 
               | This is the real problem, right? People don't dislike
               | generative AI, they dislike the attention economy. Yet I
               | see more disgust towards AI than the company policies
               | which suck. I don't understand why.
        
               | titzer wrote:
               | Oh, haha, yeah. I guess I'm the opposite--I actually like
               | AI more than the attention economy! At least one of them
               | is not _actively_ trying to drain my brainpower and skill
               | set and get my to buy stuff and do stuff I wouldn 't
               | otherwise buy or do.
        
               | saulpw wrote:
               | yet
        
               | xetsilon wrote:
               | I think it is more that art, film and music have largely
               | been replaced with complaining online about various
               | subjects as the major form of entertainment in America.
        
             | dotnet00 wrote:
             | People also differentiate heavily on the basis of scale and
             | profit. Artists are often fine with people sharing their
             | posts and may even tolerate someone asking for permission
             | to make printouts or whatever else for their circle of
             | friends, but will expect some sort of royalty if you're
             | asking to be able to sell prints of their artwork on a
             | store.
             | 
             | Hell, even with viral videos it's relatively common that
             | normal people can share away while entertainment companies
             | and influencers are expected to pay for a license.
             | 
             | With memes it isn't clear exactly who made the first
             | template, and the creation of them doesn't revolve around
             | specific people in the same way, nor are they meaningfully
             | tied to profits.
             | 
             | When creators post their content online to be shared, they
             | do it with the focus being on reaching individuals, not for
             | it to be sucked up by soulless companies to extract all
             | value without the intention of giving back.
        
               | paulddraper wrote:
               | > With memes it isn't clear exactly who made the first
               | template.
               | 
               | The Office, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Django
               | Unchained, Game of Thrones, etc
               | 
               | These works have identifiable creators.
        
               | titzer wrote:
               | The conversation is quickly devolving into a vacuum of
               | ignorance where things like royalties, fair use policies,
               | revenue-sharing agreements, parodies, sampling, etc, have
               | apparently never been thought about.
               | 
               | We're not talking about _any_ of those things. We 're
               | talking about wholesale digestion of the entirety of
               | human knowledge by automated means, which is now not just
               | theoretically possible, but routine.
        
               | dotnet00 wrote:
               | Those aren't meme formats in terms of what is typically
               | meant by meme.
        
           | arghwhat wrote:
           | These kinds of discussions always leaves me wondering if
           | people consider how actual humans learn their craft,
           | constantly studying and mimicking others. Inspiration is to
           | use existing experiences however mixed together, while
           | originality comes from an input or an experience that others
           | have yet to use.
           | 
           | "Write a sad song about the MIT license" is certainly such
           | new input, and if I was commissioned to write the song it
           | would be based on inspiration (i.e., "use training on") music
           | I have heard or studied. And yes, none of the musicians I
           | have listened to or have studied will benefit from the
           | endless money fountain I'd acquire from composing such song.
        
             | notahacker wrote:
             | Even the most derivative of singer songwriters tend to use
             | their own voices rather than a weighted average of the
             | voices of other singers in their genre...
        
               | bobajeff wrote:
               | Is that why so many people sound so much like Adele or
               | some other popular artist?
        
               | arghwhat wrote:
               | Using the skills they presumably developed listening to
               | and copying other singers and studying music, with an
               | instrument built from roughly the same instructions as
               | everyone else.
               | 
               | That a person can't sound like the weighted average is
               | human limitation (although with modern pop people do get
               | quite close!), not because new singers aren't trying to.
               | That of course adds variation that we appreciate, but
               | doesn't change the underlying similarity in how acquired
               | skill is mimicry of those who acquired it before us -
               | with very rare exceptions.
        
               | notahacker wrote:
               | No, sounding like the genre-weighted average of Spotify
               | simply isn't what singers try to do. They haven't
               | listened to that much music, they have actual
               | preferences, they have natural qualities to their voice
               | which they're complimented on or asked to mask, and
               | they're trying to hit notes based on their aural
               | perception of harmony and related theoretical principles
               | not based on the waveforms of other songs involving
               | singer songwriters. The fact that they literally couldn't
               | do what NNs do even if they wanted to also seems quite
               | relevant to the fact that they don't do what NNs do.
               | 
               | What next, are we going to argue that what programmers
               | creating new programs are really trying to do is generate
               | a prompt-weighted average of the bytecode of every
               | program they've ever downloaded, and all that business
               | analysis and functional spec and use of high level
               | programming languages and expressed preferences for
               | coding standards is irrelevant?
        
             | yoyohello13 wrote:
             | In the case of a human studying, a person puts in effort
             | and gets rewarded for their efforts.
             | 
             | In the case of AI, a person puts in minimal effort to
             | generate something that devalues the work of all the people
             | who did put in effort.
        
               | fho wrote:
               | Stable Diffusion did cost 500k to train ... I wouldn't
               | call that "minimal effort". (And that is only the
               | computation cost.)
        
               | arghwhat wrote:
               | > In the case of a human studying, a person puts in
               | effort and gets rewarded for their efforts.
               | 
               | When someone needs something composed, they don't learn
               | how to write music. They pay someone else the bare
               | minimum, e.g. a few bucks on fiverr. The person will
               | spend the least possible amount of effort to try to make
               | their life go around with the little money they got.
               | 
               | When you then use an AI model, the work done for those
               | five bucks is replaced by work done for almost free.
               | 
               | Neither the person you would hire or the AI credited
               | those who created the material they trained on.
        
               | dsign wrote:
               | > When someone needs something composed, they don't learn
               | to write music...
               | 
               | Speak for yourself! There is only one thing that scares
               | me more than composing music, and that's paying somebody
               | a few bucks in fiverr to do it for me.
        
               | drusepth wrote:
               | > In the case of AI, a person puts in minimal effort to
               | generate something that devalues the work of all the
               | people who did put in effort.
               | 
               | Worded differently: people who couldn't otherwise produce
               | skill-based works of value have had the barrier of entry
               | lowered for that specific medium of expression, allowing
               | for more works across a wider spectrum of skill.
        
               | bugglebeetle wrote:
               | It's so bizarre when people say stuff like this. There is
               | absolutely nothing preventing the unpracticed or
               | untalented people from any form of creative expression.
               | What instead people who use AI seem to want is for
               | unpracticed or untalented people to perform at the level
               | of the practiced and talented, but this is no net gain to
               | anyone. Why? Because only a rare subset of people who ARE
               | practiced and talented create anything of interest or
               | value in the first place. What this tells you is that
               | skill or level of performance is not the barrier, but a
               | means through which great things CAN be achieved (i.e.
               | necessary, but not sufficient)
               | 
               | Flooding the world with unpolished, unpracticed works,
               | AI-tuned to the level of being mediocre, is a creative
               | and intellectual dead end.
        
               | drusepth wrote:
               | I think the bizarrity arises from the following
               | differences in beliefs:
               | 
               | * That "_any_ form of creative expression" is a viable
               | creative substitute for people wanting to create in a
               | _specific_ medium of creative expression -- especially
               | those that had a high barrier of technical skills
               | required to be seen as "good enough" to share.
               | 
               | * That a person who has an idea for art will put in the
               | necessary time to become proficient enough to create that
               | "good enough" art through traditional means (IMO
               | demonstrably incorrect), and that is preferred over that
               | person just not expressing a lower-quality version of
               | that idea at all.
               | 
               | * That those who use AI primarily want or expect to
               | "perform at the level of the practiced and talented"
               | (i.e. top-tier art) rather than using it to produce art
               | they otherwise couldn't have, even at low- and mid-level
               | qualities.
               | 
               | * That there is no skill or talent in using AI tools to
               | produce art (or that the skill or talent using AI tools
               | is meant to be a full replacement for traditional
               | artistic skills or talents).
               | 
               | FWIW, I'm a long-time sketch artist and acrylics painter
               | (~20 years). There are many mediums, subjects, and styles
               | that I'm not good at -- and I enjoy using AI to express
               | myself in those areas (and have also liked using AI to
               | create songs to show to my more musicially-adept
               | wife...). But even in my own wheelhouse (landscapes and
               | still life), I also often use AI to brainstorm
               | composition, perspective, colors, textures, lighting,
               | etc. It's a great tool for experts to lean on, but an
               | even better tool for non-artists who couldn't or wouldn't
               | otherwise share their art.
        
               | titzer wrote:
               | Indeed. As an amateur guitarist, but a professional
               | virtual machinist, I have a ton of respect for people who
               | have dedicated their whole lives to mastery in any one
               | particular area. To have a machine gulp down untold eons
               | of human exertion and then barf out soulless mimicry, no
               | matter how jaw-dropping of a feat of engineering behind
               | it, and then mint no-talent ass clowns by the million
               | because viral videos make an awesome advertising platform
               | --it's just some kind of dystopian peak tech, except the
               | dystopia is mildly amusing rather than a disappointing
               | and jarring marginalization, flippant dismissal of all of
               | us.
        
               | neon5077 wrote:
               | > for unpracticed or untalented people to perform at the
               | level of the practiced and talented
               | 
               | This is what tools are.
               | 
               | Cheap digital tablets have done away with the need for
               | expensive consumables. You can just download a different
               | brush style instead of learning a physical technique. No
               | waiting for paint to dry or smudged pencils. The barrier
               | to entry for painting has dropped to a one time
               | investment of like a hundred bucks. Almost nobody mixes
               | their own paint, nor stretches their own canvas. Those
               | skills aren't needed anymore.
               | 
               | It's possible to build very precise machine parts by
               | hand. It's very difficult and requires great skill, so
               | nobody does that. Some do and are admired for it, but
               | everybody else uses precise machines to make precise
               | parts with nearly no effort.
               | 
               | It's just a tool. Only difference is that we had assumed
               | art would never be automatable.
               | 
               | Objectively, I don't think this is a bad thing. It
               | doesn't change the subjective value of art any more than
               | the average cartoonist devalues the Mona Lisa. It's just
               | a new form of art, there will _always_ be people mixing
               | their own paints and stretching their own canvas, just as
               | there always has been.
               | 
               | It's only a problem because in our society you either
               | have a job or you starve. No one can afford to be an
               | artist. Those that do tend to grind out as many pieces as
               | fast as they can so they can pay the goddamn rent. If not
               | for that, these AI tools would be pretty cool.
        
           | UncleOxidant wrote:
           | > eventually manifest in some good-paying SWE jobs
           | 
           | Unless Devin has his way.
        
         | SilasX wrote:
         | Just like we're all sad because we don't know the names of the
         | people whose work or interactions influenced Stephen King's
         | writing.
        
           | Conasg wrote:
           | I wonder who was the first to claim this was plagiarism;
           | ironically, everyone else seems to have mindlessly
           | plagiarised their belief
        
             | ronsor wrote:
             | 95% of beliefs are shamelessly plagiarized from someone
             | else.
        
           | fho wrote:
           | The funny thing is that most creatives are quite open about
           | their influences.
        
             | reducesuffering wrote:
             | They wouldn't be if every named influence wanted a 5% cut
             | of all future projects.
        
           | bena wrote:
           | AI isn't influenced. It doesn't have restrictions. It doesn't
           | have to work within confines. AI can always remember the word
           | it wants to use. It always can hit the note it intends. And
           | it can hit every note. Etc. It uses the corpus of training
           | data and mashes it into a new form.
           | 
           | Stephen King won't be able to remember every word of every
           | story he's ever read. And if he wants to make something
           | "Lovecraftian", it'll be what Stephen King _thinks_ is
           | Lovecraftian. And there will be something to that. Some bit
           | he believes is more or less important than other people And
           | those bits are what makes Stephen King, Stephen King.
           | 
           | Everyone has had access to the same material King read.
           | Access to the same tools he used to create. Everyone had the
           | chance to effectively be Stephen King. But there is just one.
           | Because there is some unique bit of observation or recall or
           | combination of such things that is unique to King.
           | 
           | And from what I've seen so far, these LLMs can't do that.
           | There is a missing element of pure imagination.
        
             | SilasX wrote:
             | You can tune AI output.
        
               | bena wrote:
               | But you can't make it creative. You can't say "give me
               | something cool" and have it produce something of note.
        
               | SilasX wrote:
               | Yes, you can absolutely play god of the gaps.
        
               | bena wrote:
               | How am I doing that? I am claiming that LLMs lack
               | imagination. They are incapable of creating out of whole
               | cloth or interpretation.
               | 
               | Saying they cannot create based off of a vague suggestion
               | is very much in line with that claim. I consider it a
               | vital difference between Stephen King being inspired and
               | LLMs mashing training inputs together.
        
         | mirekrusin wrote:
         | She's sad because she knows the license will be changed to
         | business non compete one in a year.
        
         | throwaway74432 wrote:
         | We don't know the names of all the people on which the style
         | and content of your comment is modelled either.
        
           | kube-system wrote:
           | That's correct, but they are (probably) human, which is
           | pivotal to the application of copyright law.
        
         | non-chalad wrote:
         | Is it Hatsune Miku? Twitter is glitching out again, so I can't
         | hear.
        
           | schroeding wrote:
           | No, it's a synthetic voice from suno.ai, sounds like a (very
           | sad) American singer-songwriter.
        
       | cwillu wrote:
       | I'm impressed how it managed to extract rhyme from that license.
       | The software is provided (as is)         without warranty, of any
       | kind         express, or implied.
        
         | fho wrote:
         | Yeah, there are some good rhymes in there. Actually better
         | rhymes than those ChatGPT delivers if asked for lyrics or
         | poems.
        
           | Fnoord wrote:
           | Plot twist: MIT license was written by a poet.
        
         | paulddraper wrote:
         | Exactly. Tough constraints, having zero flexibility in lyrics.
        
       | gardaani wrote:
       | This reminds me of OpenBSD release songs!
       | https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
        
         | Fnoord wrote:
         | And early nerdcore.
         | 
         | (Dual Core FTW!)
        
       | lordnacho wrote:
       | It's a satire generator. Take any text you want to make fun of,
       | turn it into music.
       | 
       | I'm not sure whether I've just run out of credit, or Suno
       | actually knows what the political sensitivities of the text might
       | be, but I can't generate a second amendment song.
        
         | seydor wrote:
         | Has anyone had decent results with C++ code?
        
           | bombcar wrote:
           | Won't be able to beat "Program in C"
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas0O586t80
        
         | floxy wrote:
         | In the lower left hand corner there is a "subscribe" button,
         | and above that a "credits" counter.
        
       | nickcw wrote:
       | Here is my effort
       | 
       | https://app.suno.ai/song/13cffa0c-bbd5-41b6-abde-43332b21b0f...
       | 
       | I took the litany of fear from Dune and got Bing Chat to re-write
       | it to be about facing down code complexity, then I put those
       | lyrics into suno.ai to turn it into a 2 minute song to express
       | all your emotions about code that needs to be simplified ;-)
        
         | billh wrote:
         | I just had it make a rap song of its own ToS
         | 
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/7995f966-6265-4b34-a68e-400981f5931...
        
           | Balgair wrote:
           | Lol, nice!
           | 
           | When they allowed longer text inputs, and for faster rapping,
           | I can really see this kinda thing taking off with L1s and med
           | students.
           | 
           | Like the Animaniacs song about the state capitols.
           | 
           | Or like a Homeric epic that is meant for remembering and
           | singing.
           | 
           | The method of loci may have a new competitor as a way to
           | remember things here.
        
             | billh wrote:
             | One of the things that came to mind when I was listening to
             | the ToS song it generated was a video I had watched years
             | ago on the very dry topic of Rule 803 - Hearsay Exceptions
             | but it was put to a catchy tune and made it very memorable
             | and easier to digest.
             | (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJ6fgIKYy8)
        
             | sen_armstrong wrote:
             | I think it might be more memorable when the med students do
             | the writing ... and singing.
             | 
             | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxJJ2DBPiQ
             | Diagnosis, Wenckebach *(what?)*         It's AV nodal block
             | and that's a fact *(yeah)*         Take PR interval and
             | lengthen that *(yeah)*         bradyarrhythmia and heart
             | attack *(oh-no!)*
             | 
             | AI songs do make sense if AI will be making the diagnosis!
        
           | dilap wrote:
           | Asked Claude Opus to minimally modify the lyrics to add
           | rhymes
           | 
           | https://app.suno.ai/song/40d0fb88-246b-42f9-8998-0387e75262e.
           | ..
        
         | newswasboring wrote:
         | This thing can generate lyrics and music for a hindi song. Its
         | way better than I expected. Here's a song about wrestlemania.
         | 
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/018ca476-803b-4a45-81ed-c7263e08ef3...
        
         | sentrysapper wrote:
         | I chuckled at gone "live", but otherwise that was pretty good
         | code poetry. Thanks for that.
        
       | butz wrote:
       | Is there any information how such songs are made? It probably is
       | way more complicated to get a decent result than one might
       | expect.
        
         | grumbel wrote:
         | It's suno.ai (has a free trial), works much the same as image
         | generation, you give it a description and it writes a song in a
         | couple of seconds. Lyrics can be customized:
         | 
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/41fde9b6-a722-4c39-92dc-8a8296c018c...
        
       | yinser wrote:
       | Sunoslop lol
        
       | s-macke wrote:
       | We came a long way from the first synthetic singing voices.
       | 
       | https://simulationcorner.net/SAM/sing.wav
       | 
       | Edit:
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/Rm4ZCGgzeeU?si=upK-qCMev8ZaibIa&t=222
        
         | schroeding wrote:
         | Even older, Daisy Bell on an IBM 7094 from 1961:
         | https://youtu.be/41U78QP8nBk?t=63
        
       | cwillu wrote:
       | The Free Software Song:
       | 
       | https://app.suno.ai/song/2ce5eab5-d1c5-48b2-91a0-8e6095e29ed...
       | 
       | https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.en.html: "Richard
       | Stallman and the Free Software Foundation claim no copyright on
       | this song."
        
       | yamrzou wrote:
       | This is impressive, but part of what makes it so is that we are
       | not used to it. As these kinds of AI-generated
       | music/images/videos become ubiquitous, it will be the new normal
       | and they will become less impressive.
        
         | callalex wrote:
         | Maybe, but I think there is something innately funny about
         | making computers say silly things. As a small child it was peak
         | comedy to me making a Macintosh say "fart" and it's still funny
         | to me when a computer sings the MIT license.
        
           | thenickdude wrote:
           | On that theme, I asked Suno to sing a rap but "remove all the
           | vowels", and it's hilarious how well it attempts to sing the
           | silly result:
           | 
           | https://app.suno.ai/song/30f8223e-0d0b-4cac-8b3f-5d8f0f743e2.
           | ..
           | 
           | The lyrics generator is some version of GPT so you can give
           | it natural language instructions like this.
        
       | ein0p wrote:
       | My mind hasn't been this blown by AI since GPT4. You owe it to
       | yourself to check out Suno.ai. As a non-pro musician I'm excited
       | by this. Some version of this could become a _starting point_ for
       | me, rather than an unreachable end goal. I can see how pros would
       | be horrified by this, too. For quite a few people some future
       | version of this could be an adequate replacement for a music
       | subscription, but of course not for a show.
        
         | MarcelOlsz wrote:
         | I was thinking it would impact places like bars and streams and
         | tv the most rather than actual consumers, or wherever licensing
         | is concerned. I don't believe people would listen to AI
         | generated music for the same reason AI isn't impacting fine
         | art. People aren't going to hang AI paintings in their houses
         | or listen to AI music.
        
           | ein0p wrote:
           | Why not? Have you seen the top 10? It couldn't be any worse
           | than what it is now. People who reach the top 10 are rarely
           | there for the "art". A lot of them don't even write their own
           | songs or music.
        
             | MarcelOlsz wrote:
             | Honestly I don't even know what the "top 10" is or how its
             | measured and have never met anyone in my life who listened
             | to top 10 stuff. It's always HR office radio, mechanic
             | radio, the bar, club, etc. Even the most normal people find
             | stuff they like on youtube and listen to that.
             | 
             | Even if the AI music is extremely good, it's just missing
             | the fact that it was made by a person, which changes the
             | experience entirely. I think we're more likely to see
             | musicians and those top10 artists leverage AI without
             | explicitly saying so.
             | 
             | I expect we will have a daft punk moment where someone is
             | using exclusively AI and later unmasks that it was all AI,
             | and as soon as that happens the music is disconnected.
             | 
             | Same with AI art. I can see something and be duped and go
             | "oh wow!!!" and as soon as I know it's AI the caring leaves
             | my body completely and reverence and interest is lost.
        
               | aradox66 wrote:
               | I love this sentiment about "top 10" radio. If only it
               | was so. That's the stuff that's on everywhere, all the
               | time. Grocery stores, cafes, etc etc. hell, I listen to
               | it on YouTube. It's like junk food. It's bad, it's good.
               | 
               | It's better than AI, even this incredible mindblowing
               | suno thing. Production value counts.
        
               | ein0p wrote:
               | Will it be better than AI six months from now, that's the
               | question. My money is on "no".
        
               | MarcelOlsz wrote:
               | At least the classical world is safe. They want no part
               | in AI.
        
               | throwup238 wrote:
               | I think it's a lot better at classical, orchestral, and
               | instrumental music than it is at anything requiring
               | vocalization. I created this in less than 20 minutes: htt
               | ps://app.suno.ai/song/eb93c25b-bdbe-4c9f-8e03-66e9479c869
               | ...
               | 
               | I need to stem it, fix it up a bit, and remix for stereo
               | in a DAW but it's much better than I expected for my
               | first ever piece of music. Obviously it'd take a lot of
               | work to create a Hans Zimmer level OST from the tool but
               | IMO it wouldn't feel out of place on a Ludovico Einaudi
               | album or on some Spotify or Pandora classical radio.
        
               | programd wrote:
               | That's actually a very good piece. Like something I'd
               | hear on late night Paradise Radio. If I was creating an
               | indie movie on no budget I'd be all over this technology
               | for the soundtrack.
               | 
               | I don't think musicians and composers are going to
               | disappear as a consequence of this technology, in the
               | same way that theatre actors were not made obsolete by
               | film. What I do think is that a whole new category of
               | professionals will be created - musicians and composers
               | who get paid to train AI models. I bet it will pay better
               | then the laughable amounts that are streaming royalties.
        
               | recursive wrote:
               | At some point in the future, wanting no part in AI-
               | generated content is going to be like that old Onion
               | headline. "Area Man Constantly Mentioning That He Doesn't
               | Even Own A Television".
        
               | janalsncm wrote:
               | Quality isn't the only factor though. Music made by
               | people has copyright which means grocery stores and
               | coffee shops have to pay a license fee.
               | 
               | There's certainly a point where this synthetic music gets
               | good enough to replace the elevator music Muzak crap that
               | they have to pay $2000 to license.
        
             | recursive wrote:
             | Someone is writing it. There are a lot more than 10 people
             | that want to be in the top 10. It's hard to get into the
             | top 10. You might not appreciate it as art, but the songs
             | that are there are good at _something_. You could call it
             | being catchy. AI is not even close on this metric.
        
               | newswasboring wrote:
               | Its not even close now. And these things have been out
               | maybe a few months? Of course even the potential of the
               | current tools aren't fully explored.
        
               | recursive wrote:
               | I think it will get there, wherever "there" is. I think
               | it's very impressive now, as a technical marvel. But it's
               | really not competing with the best humans yet. I don't
               | say this to dismiss it. I say this as an appreciator of
               | music who is neutral on AI. Probably one day I'll listen
               | to mostly AI generated music. But it won't be this month.
        
             | xetsilon wrote:
             | All music at this point is largely ambient music and Muzak.
             | 
             | The future is obviously a form of custom AI Muzak/Ambient
             | music with a few pop stars for people to focus on.
             | 
             | I am a big fan of more art type music and guess what? No
             | one listens to it. My fav album of 2023 has 6.4k views on
             | youtube. At least a 100 of those are mine. No one listens
             | to this stuff. People watch video critic reviews of more
             | art type music than the actual music itself.
        
               | ein0p wrote:
               | Lol, same. A lot of the stuff I listen to is completely
               | unknown to a "normal" person. And guess what? AI is not
               | replacing those folks for their audiences in the
               | foreseeable future, because they don't just regurgitate
               | the same chord progression as everyone else
        
           | CamperBob2 wrote:
           | _I don 't believe people would listen to AI generated music
           | for the same reason AI isn't impacting fine art._
           | 
           | Pretty soon we'll be reviving the old Palmolive "You're
           | soaking in it" commercial
           | (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bEkq7JCbik).
           | 
           | We'll all be soaking in it, and no, you won't be able to tell
           | the difference.
        
           | j-bos wrote:
           | I see this take often, but I don't buy it. Mixtapes and
           | playlists are quintessential gifts of affection based on art
           | that the giver did not make and by artists the receiver often
           | does not know. Just the same lots of people hang costco
           | paintings on their walls by anonymous sweatshop workers and
           | kids love cool posters about whatever interests them with no
           | regard to who made them. I believe consumers are likely to
           | enjoy lots of this generated art.
        
           | newswasboring wrote:
           | > People aren't going to hang AI paintings in their houses or
           | listen to AI music.
           | 
           | A lot of people are very confident about this and I dont
           | understand why. The same was said for jazz and comic books.
           | But I am listening to jazz with comic book posters on my
           | wall. There were different reasons to give the same
           | statement, but it almost always turns out to be wrong. Humans
           | like what they like and seldom judge an artwork for its
           | process (outside of a very small niche community).
        
             | MarcelOlsz wrote:
             | This is something different entirely. We're outside of the
             | "human sphere" so to speak.
             | 
             | >Humans like what they like and seldom judge an artwork for
             | its process (outside of a very small niche community).
             | 
             | That's true, but how do you zoom out of process? This is
             | beyond process. I would just say most people don't like
             | inhuman things.
        
               | newswasboring wrote:
               | > We're outside of the "human sphere" so to speak.
               | 
               | Can you elaborate on this a bit? Because this is what I
               | don't get.
        
               | MarcelOlsz wrote:
               | It's a non-human algorithmic mish mash of a bunch of
               | stuff, there is no human quality to it or years of effort
               | to reach new heights. AI will not make "new" music in the
               | sense that it will make a trumpet song that escapes our
               | current understanding of a trumpets limit like how a once
               | in a generation player will come along and move the
               | ceiling up.
               | 
               | It's an omellete. There is no Dolly Parton behind an AI
               | Jolene or a Michael Jackson turning a 4 track tape into a
               | musical masterpiece. The journey and personalities are
               | what contextualize the sound, without AI that context is
               | gone. That's why I think it will just be used for cafes
               | and things like that where they want to escape licensing
               | fees.
               | 
               | As for consumers - I believe people will see AI music
               | consumption as a way of supporting the new technological
               | powers that be, and the act of listening to human-made
               | music will have an element of counter-culture baked into
               | it. I'm a professional musician and I have a very
               | physical reaction to sound. Once I know it's AI my
               | goosebumps fade.
               | 
               | Another lame incarnation of a tech that will also fade
               | like crypto and everything else. The types of
               | personalities who will leverage this tech are not the
               | same personalities that make the greats.
               | 
               | I'm not worried.
        
               | newswasboring wrote:
               | In this post, I can summarize two points you are trying
               | to make. One, it takes less effort, and two it doesn't
               | fit into our current understanding of how art creation
               | narratives work. I don't see how that precludes a piece
               | from being good/bad. I feel like you are arguing for your
               | personal opinion (if not your image of what the world
               | should be) as if it's some kind of objective truth. Your
               | goosebumps might have faded but when I heard this post in
               | a half sleepy state, I got goosebumps when my sleepy mind
               | figured out its fully AI generated. But that doesn't add
               | to the argument either way.
        
               | MacsHeadroom wrote:
               | I love art made by non-human intelligences. I especially
               | love how it can transcend and redefine loved mediums by
               | combining them in surreal ways that are otherwise quite
               | difficult to obtain. Algorithmic exploration of mediums
               | outpaces mere mortal "effort" in its efficiency and in
               | doing so raises the bar for what constitutes media worth
               | giving our attention to.
        
         | UncleOxidant wrote:
         | Does it take a long time for it to generate a song? I've been
         | waiting for about 10 minutes now with a spinning circle line.
        
           | throwup238 wrote:
           | With the pro subscription it usually takes less than thirty
           | seconds for the songs to be playable. It keeps generating
           | while you play though, so the whole audio file isn't
           | available for a few minutes.
           | 
           | Free accounts are queued so it depends on load and I don't
           | think the v3 model is available to them.
        
       | haunter wrote:
       | Everything is a Remix
        
       | sircastor wrote:
       | Reminds me of Regina Spektor's style.
       | 
       | And some of the generated phenomes actually just sound like
       | stylistic auto-tuning. I kind of like it.
       | 
       | I'm sure many have already observed this, but I think the thing
       | that most artists fear from AI is not that AI will be able to
       | produce works on parr or superior to human works, but that most
       | people won't care enough to value the difference.
        
       | genter wrote:
       | Can I include this as LICENSE.mpeg in the root directory of my
       | projects instead of a text file?
        
         | abeppu wrote:
         | And does the requirement that "this permission notice shall be
         | included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software"
         | mean that the mpeg specifically must be included?
        
       | seydor wrote:
       | The chorus (or all caps part) is now burnt in our Eula memories.
       | 
       | Wonder how long it will be until someone sings Mein kampf though
        
       | gedy wrote:
       | Suno.ai and the underlaying technologies are really quite
       | amazing. I've done a few things like:
       | 
       | * Put a poem my late mother wrote to music for her memorial
       | 
       | * <asian-language> versions of 80's new wave songs
       | 
       | and they came out so lovely compared to what I'd be capable of as
       | a musician, but puts me in the role of a "producer" of sorts
       | tuning the sound and vibe. Really well worth the money.
        
       | layman51 wrote:
       | This is scratching an rare itch for me because I am a heavy
       | subvocalizer when I read just about anything, and when I have a
       | song stuck in my head, I end up wondering what it would sound
       | like if someone sang the words I'm reading to the tune of the
       | song.
        
         | _sys49152 wrote:
         | for college i would convert my physical textbooks to wordfile
         | text, then convert the wordfile text to computer voice mp3s and
         | use those to play in the background to help me studying.
         | 
         | break up chapters or sections of the college textbook into suno
         | songs instead - itd be maad interesting how much better that
         | wouldve helped my studies. monotone computer voices of 10+
         | years ago will put you to sleep.
        
         | IanCal wrote:
         | Probably relevant, I took a photo of my kids "curious questions
         | about space" book and threw the words into a song
         | 
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/f283429e-ec3e-4152-b5be-a57cd72a6d9...
         | 
         | They've been listening to it in the bath to huge success.
         | Particularly the change at about 40s for "why can't we breathe
         | on the moon?" which feels like an excellent song lyric.
         | 
         | Honestly I'm blown away at how well it does.
        
       | maxglute wrote:
       | Going to make those boring textbooks sound more tolerable.
       | Interesting implications for education. If this was a foreign
       | language I didn't understand, I don't think I would have been
       | able to tell it was generated.
        
       | janalsncm wrote:
       | Made one reading the Declaration of Independence. I am impressed.
       | https://app.suno.ai/song/54898804-8cd9-4b6f-a18d-3ffbe728579...
        
         | qingcharles wrote:
         | I can see this being "a thing." I tried one too - Gangsta Rap
         | Constitution:
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/0ed4c4e2-9a92-40c1-a1ab-20ae49b7a8d...
        
           | floxy wrote:
           | Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death:
           | 
           | https://app.suno.ai/song/d67a4c29-9f2a-41b0-9ff8-2c8138a1a7a.
           | ..
           | 
           | https://app.suno.ai/song/89a48c01-c7e5-487a-b825-4a3978b7259.
           | ..
        
           | bmacho wrote:
           | There should be a whole Broadway musical of this
        
         | cenan wrote:
         | Oh nice, I had the same idea.
         | https://app.suno.ai/song/a693c847-7ce6-475c-adc5-0328786b901...
        
       | _DeadFred_ wrote:
       | I remember when Solaria came out there were a ton of people
       | making emotional spiritual music with it. It felt so odd, robot
       | voices singing to God and about the wonder of experiencing life.
       | Sounded pretty though.
       | 
       | Soon we will have 'preacher's in a box' that will sing to lift
       | you up, mentor you, guide you through life. Most will even be
       | 'non-religious' but will basically become your religion, your
       | guide through life.
        
         | philipov wrote:
         | It's a real Nier: Automata vibe. The machines all chant "Become
         | As God" as they try to sacrifice you.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Reminds me of Richard Dreyfuss reading an Apple license.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu0lqUlHEko
        
       | schroeding wrote:
       | Ha. Voice synthesizers and TTS systems (and NLP in general - dead
       | electronics imitating this very intimately human thing, speech
       | and language) always fascinated me, so far that this was a
       | significant reason for me to study CS and computational
       | linguistics.
       | 
       | This is literally some of the impossible sci-fi tech I dreamt of
       | as an undergrad. Crazy. I'm still a bit in disbelief how fast
       | things currently move on this front.
       | 
       | Interestingly, suno.ai is also able to imitate the very robotic
       | and staccato-like intonation of Vocaloids:
       | https://app.suno.ai/song/f43e9c46-92d3-4171-bdd9-026213d6772... -
       | everything comes around. :)
        
         | mewpmewp2 wrote:
         | > Miku voice, speck fast, Vocaloid, math rock, j-pop, mutation
         | funk, bounce drop, hyperspeed dubstep
         | 
         | What a banger.
        
       | _sys49152 wrote:
       | most impressive ive heard on suno was a live performance. all the
       | live performance cliches including the crowd singing along
       | acapella. it was unfuckingbelievable - and at the same time i can
       | see how that can get burned out real quick by others replicating
       | same idea over and over.
        
       | syngrog66 wrote:
       | Billie Eilish songgen as a Service
        
       | no_op wrote:
       | In a similar vein, LessWrong released an entire AI-generated
       | album with lyrics adapted from significant posts made there over
       | the years:
       | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YMo5PuXnZDwRjhHhE/lesswrong-...
       | 
       | I think I'm going to enjoy how surreal widespread access to
       | generative AI will make the world.
        
         | plagiarist wrote:
         | I'm not seeing a Roko's Basilisk track, disappointing.
        
           | zeekaran wrote:
           | I've been with LW people for years and no one has ever
           | mentioned Roko's Basilisk.
        
       | muxator wrote:
       | I suppose the focus was on voice synthesis here. I won't add
       | anything about it since other commenters have already said
       | significant things about this wonderful feat.
       | 
       | Musically, however, I can't help but notice that these models are
       | still very far from being able to generate something interesting:
       | from harmony, to tempo, to musical structure, to dynamics,
       | everything is muddled and without structure. I guess there is
       | still very much to work on, and I am not sure that purely
       | generative models can attain higher levels. Maybe a mixed rule-
       | based and generative approach would do?
       | 
       | The progress is really fast in this field, I really do not know.
        
         | BriggyDwiggs42 wrote:
         | I think historically every time someone says that the solution
         | to an ai problem is more structure, the truth turns out to be
         | an issue mostly of data and scale
        
           | muxator wrote:
           | That's probably true. Maybe there is a point to trade
           | computational/energetic efficiency for attainability of a
           | result. Let's see how this unfolds.
        
         | Almondsetat wrote:
         | What structure and tempo can you realistically give to the MIT
         | license?
        
           | muxator wrote:
           | I'll try to give a serious answer, even if I suppose yours
           | was a nice joke :)
           | 
           | Music is a language, even if with no semantic. It has
           | conventions, dialects, a syntax, a grammar. There are
           | multiple dimensions a musician uses to convey what he
           | wants/feels: just like an actor has to control at the same
           | time its voice, posture, interplay with other actors, so a
           | good musician is aware of the structure of the piece he is
           | composing/executing, the relations between the various
           | subparts, how the musical discourse progresses in time,
           | besides agogic, dynamics, sound color.
           | 
           | All of those aspects are continually perpetually compared
           | against the conventions of the genre, mixed, evolved,
           | strictly followed or balatantly negated.
           | 
           | This is something that normally a professional musician takes
           | decades to master (apart from musical geniuses).
           | 
           | A listener takes less time to educate himself to appreciate
           | those nuances (but not too little: let's say ~years). Once
           | you develop a taste, it becomes very obvious to see through
           | the spectrum that goes from bad quality tunes to musical
           | artistry.
           | 
           | I see nothing musically interesting in this (wonderful) PoC
           | of speech synthesis.
           | 
           | Just to be clear: I did not see anything particularly
           | stunning even in Google's Bach Doodle from some years ago
           | https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-johann-
           | sebastian-b...
        
         | kevinmhickey wrote:
         | Reminds me a little bit of Catholic mass when the priest
         | "sings" some of the sections. There is no consistency, no
         | cadence, but their voice goes up and down. It's high-effort
         | talking.
         | 
         | I wonder if these models would do something better if the text
         | were poetic or punctuated differently.
        
       | MyFirstSass wrote:
       | This is _so_ much better than stable.audio released yesterday!?
       | 
       | I've dabbled in music production and this is just unbelievable.
       | 
       | Both amazing and a bit sad because this is already so much better
       | than would i would have anticipated.
       | 
       | First illustrators, copywriters, then VFX guys, and now music.
       | We're going to loose so many jobs in the creative sector right?
        
       | sho_hn wrote:
       | https://www.eikehein.com/kde/plasma6.mp3
       | 
       | Ok, this is pretty fun.
        
       | mayoff wrote:
       | Is this sound file itself under the MIT license?
        
         | OkayPhysicist wrote:
         | Current case law suggests this song would not be copyrightable
         | in the US.
        
       | mastermedo wrote:
       | I generated a song in 30 seconds from getting on the site, and
       | generated a song that is crazy relatable, funny and sounds good.
       | Made the whole family smile. This is going places.
        
         | fivestones wrote:
         | Care to share the link?
        
       | andrewmcwatters wrote:
       | Babe, new cover of GNU General Public License v2.0 just dropped!
        
       | cenan wrote:
       | Song lyrics (generated by ChatGPT) based on the The Declaration
       | of Independence.
       | 
       | https://app.suno.ai/song/a693c847-7ce6-475c-adc5-0328786b901...
       | 
       | Haha this is amazing!
        
         | amelius wrote:
         | ChatGPT has no humor, but this certainly made me laugh.
        
       | lemoncookiechip wrote:
       | Suno.AI is very fun. I find that asking ChatGPT to create lyrics
       | and then feeding it gives some great results, although half the
       | generations tend to have a bit too much static, so you have to
       | keep generating.
        
       | spyder wrote:
       | I have a dream:
       | 
       | https://app.suno.ai/song/d2f8e712-80ae-40ae-967b-90e13278da5...
        
       | chrisdsaldivar wrote:
       | Barely related but this reminds me of a video where Sir Elton
       | John sings the text of an oven manual.
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/8GuI4UUZrmw
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | To get chorus right I'm not sure if LLM type tech can accurately
       | repeat the chorus it has made up before. Many songs have very
       | repeated chorus. An example is U2s One. "Is it getting better.."
       | and then another chorus "did I disappoint you.."
       | 
       | Current generated songs are made like sentences where you hear
       | entire song without much structure
        
       | uyzstvqs wrote:
       | Suno is pretty cool. If I had to guess this uses Suno's Bark and
       | Facebook's MusicGen? The output of the latter is used as
       | conditional layers for the prior similar to ControlNet?
       | 
       | Anyway, what will be interesting is when this can be done locally
       | on consumer hardware with open-source AI, a nice UI and
       | Vulkan/DirectML GPU inference.
        
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