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Re: Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers

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Post by zaptrem »

weberer wrote: post #35

So if I make a song using this API, who owns the copyright? Is it me or Sonauto?

I'm not sure to what extent AI music is copyrightable (I think it depends on a case-by-case amount of human influence) but our TOS assigns any rights we may have to the user.

Re: Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers

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Post by code_for_monkey »

zaptrem wrote: post #6
naltroc wrote: post #3

how did you create this without committing grand theft musica

In my opinion training on all music is no more theft than Taylor Swift listening to the radio growing up (as long as we don't regurgitate existing songs which would be bad and useless anyway). I think an alternative legal interpretation where all of humanity's musical knowledge and history are controlled by three megacorporations (UMG/Sony/Warner) would be kinda depressing. If the above is true we might as well shutd…

no one can actually explain the value OpenAI adds to humanity. What massive loss? What have we gained from this entity other than another billionaire riding a hype cycle?

Re: Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers

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Post by code_for_monkey »

zaptrem wrote: post #10
tombot wrote: post #7

What is the point of generating this low quality AI slop music, what real use case do you have in mind?

For the consumer stuff: It's fun, and IMO that's enough. Not every song has to be peak artistic quality pushing the world forward, sometimes it's enough to bring a smile to a friend's face by making a song about them. If you think their art is slop you shouldn't have to listen to it (IMO Spotify et al should have an optional "no AI music" filter for now). For the API: I think this could be integrated into artists wor…

the reason a song from a friend makes you happy is directly related to the effort behind it, this is totally meaningless.

Re: Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers

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Post by code_for_monkey »

dingnuts wrote: post #32
patcon wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made little gift songs for friends for awhile. It was nice and fun. Making a roadtrip theme song for friends on a vacation is way fun, and kinda locks in the moment I also used it when I was living in New Orleans to help a friend come up with a riff for a live set he had, which had some unusual constraints (only had a singer, drummer and trombone, but no others, in an echoey space). He used the generated song hook…

There's so much real independent music out there that actually has meaning. I hope you didn't tell your friend you wrote the song, because if someone tricked me into listening to generated not-art and I found out afterwards, I would consider them a liar. What your friend did, using generation for inspiration for real music he creates is fine. But if someone gifted me an AI generated song I would ask why they didn't p…

The problem with AI music, and in fact AI in general, is that weve spent the last few decades aggressively attacking the idea that art should get paid for at all and yet people still do it, because they love it. So musicians work for pennies, and yet people still need to replace them with a machine.

So even if you just pay someone else to make you a song, its not really any more expensive than this. Same with painting. What does this AI bring to the table, at all? It grosses me out.

People on this site should go pick up a guitar and write a 3 chord song about someone, itll take you a day if that. Its not hard! Its fun!

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