The video is clearly AI slop but worse, the track has all of the tells of an AI generated garbage, including the noise, artifacts, qacky compression, etc. Looks like slop. Sounds like slop.
I get it. AI music bad, but let’s step away from the black and white thinking for a second, take off our Lemmy hats and think about a more nuanced approach.
Where do we draw the line with sampling? Where do we draw the line with borrowing from other people’s music? There is no legal protection of chord progressions. Artists are sampling whole songs, they’re sampling musical phrases, melodies and patterns, even recordings of individual notes of instruments.
We don’t know to what extent AI was leveraged to generate the music and lyrics of this song (maybe they wrote lyrics and fed it to a text to speech model, maybe they fed it specific audio to be used), but what we do know is that millions of artists everywhere borrow from and even directly use creative content from other artists.
Obviously, most Gen AI is trained on stolen content, but I’m offering the opportunity to see the potential of AI and music done in an (currently imaginary) ethical way.
Again, where do we draw the line at sampling in music?
I wasn’t wearing my “Lemmy hat”, I was wearing my music production hat. There are a lot of generative music tools out there that do a fairly decent job when part of a mix of tools. You can use some pitch correction and re-voicing tools to keep the vocalist on pitch and change their voice entirely. Instead, I can almost guarantee that they wrote the lyrics and fed them to Suno along with a genre prompt and saved personality. I doubt they bothered to even use the Suno Studio feature. This genuinely sounds like default generative output. It’s lazy, horribly mixed, noisy, and all around minimum effort.
PS: I also have not doubt that the lyrics are also prompt generated.
Music production hat makes you equally resistant to AI usage. With my music production hat on it’s equally difficult to listen to. Super compressed. That noise is ridiculous. The song itself pretty basic. BUT it’s not bad. I’ve heard human make stuff that sounds wayyyyy worse. Obviously it’s stealing from a lot to create something halfway decent. It’s only gonna keep sounding better (think autotune vs melodyne) and/or our ears are going to adjust to this quality of music. As I’m sure you know, music is heavily compressed/limited and way louder than generations past. And loooootts of overproduced artists in the radio. Part of me feels the same way. I’ll never like AI generated music. Then another part of me say, what if it sounds good? Why not? I still listen to MJ sometimes and he diddled kids.
And this shit proves how talent-less they are. See, a liberal with an agenda would just finance an artist that aligns with their views, but the GOP has to make artists up wholesale because their are no good MAGA artists to finance.
The video is clearly AI slop but worse, the track has all of the tells of an AI generated garbage, including the noise, artifacts, qacky compression, etc. Looks like slop. Sounds like slop.
I get it. AI music bad, but let’s step away from the black and white thinking for a second, take off our Lemmy hats and think about a more nuanced approach.
Where do we draw the line with sampling? Where do we draw the line with borrowing from other people’s music? There is no legal protection of chord progressions. Artists are sampling whole songs, they’re sampling musical phrases, melodies and patterns, even recordings of individual notes of instruments.
We don’t know to what extent AI was leveraged to generate the music and lyrics of this song (maybe they wrote lyrics and fed it to a text to speech model, maybe they fed it specific audio to be used), but what we do know is that millions of artists everywhere borrow from and even directly use creative content from other artists.
Obviously, most Gen AI is trained on stolen content, but I’m offering the opportunity to see the potential of AI and music done in an (currently imaginary) ethical way.
Again, where do we draw the line at sampling in music?
Samples have to be cleared by the original author to be legally used in a new track
Yeah lol this isn’t new news.
I guess you didn’t read the whole comment. It’s okay. It’s long.
Yeah that’s why I specified “in an ethical way”. So if gen AI tools paid royalties to artists you’d be cool with it?
who’s doing the sampling?
meat?
or an algorithm?
it’s that simple.
I wasn’t wearing my “Lemmy hat”, I was wearing my music production hat. There are a lot of generative music tools out there that do a fairly decent job when part of a mix of tools. You can use some pitch correction and re-voicing tools to keep the vocalist on pitch and change their voice entirely. Instead, I can almost guarantee that they wrote the lyrics and fed them to Suno along with a genre prompt and saved personality. I doubt they bothered to even use the Suno Studio feature. This genuinely sounds like default generative output. It’s lazy, horribly mixed, noisy, and all around minimum effort.
PS: I also have not doubt that the lyrics are also prompt generated.
The biggest tell is the exact 2:00 length haha.
Music production hat makes you equally resistant to AI usage. With my music production hat on it’s equally difficult to listen to. Super compressed. That noise is ridiculous. The song itself pretty basic. BUT it’s not bad. I’ve heard human make stuff that sounds wayyyyy worse. Obviously it’s stealing from a lot to create something halfway decent. It’s only gonna keep sounding better (think autotune vs melodyne) and/or our ears are going to adjust to this quality of music. As I’m sure you know, music is heavily compressed/limited and way louder than generations past. And loooootts of overproduced artists in the radio. Part of me feels the same way. I’ll never like AI generated music. Then another part of me say, what if it sounds good? Why not? I still listen to MJ sometimes and he diddled kids.
No one ever accused MAGA of being intelligent.
Most MAGA have some sort of brain damage that causes them to not detect AI slop.
Lead poisoning, mostly
Lots of inbreeding too.
And this shit proves how talent-less they are. See, a liberal with an agenda would just finance an artist that aligns with their views, but the GOP has to make artists up wholesale because their are no good MAGA artists to finance.