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MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Post by delusional »

rubicon33 wrote: post #7

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

There's plenty of really good creative music. If you only watch Marvel and Top 20 hits you won't know it, but there's plenty of good stuff out there. I've really enjoyed the last couple of Bon Iver releases and my favorite artist, The Tallest Man On Earth, just released his new album Henry st. Containing some super personal tracks.

The music is fantastic if you just look a little.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Post by istjohn »

Zetobal wrote: post #5
obiefernandez wrote: post #4

Music is already one of the most extremely devalued art forms given how oversupplied it is. Boggles the mind to think of the consequences of technology like this reaching quality levels where the differences between it and professionally produced music are imperceptible.

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I downvoted because your comment is unnecessarily passive agressive and combative.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

rubicon33 wrote: post #7

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

A flood of garbage film/music has always existed, we just don't remember it because its uninteresting.

However, I think modern rec algorithms (like the Netflix home page) are recommending more mediocre stuff than the old system, and the streaming boom did produce an abnormal glut of junk.

Anyway I think AI is going to spawn a music remixing/game modding/tv extending renaissance. They perform much better when pointing them at a good source (as you can see with the melody conditioning samples, and other stuff like sd img2img and finetuned llms).

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Post by ddmichael »

I may as a composer be biased but AI "generating" music is just sad. The hypocrisy is that musicians have been suing each other for intellectual property reasons, while this thing is being trained on everyone's music. The law should catch up on this. I get that it's going to improve but for now it's also just elevator/supermarket music.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Post by satvikpendem »

rubicon33 wrote: post #7

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

You are getting older. Every generation thinks the same, that media is getting worse, discounting the survivorship bias that occurs when they look back on their favorite music and discarding all of the bad music that was present back then.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Post by Zetobal »

istjohn wrote: post #12
Zetobal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I downvoted because your comment is unnecessarily passive agressive and combative.

Is it? He stated something as a fact and I want him to take the viewpoint of other persons than himself and think about it. :)

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Post by seydor »

ddmichael wrote: post #14

I may as a composer be biased but AI "generating" music is just sad. The hypocrisy is that musicians have been suing each other for intellectual property reasons, while this thing is being trained on everyone's music. The law should catch up on this. I get that it's going to improve but for now it's also just elevator/supermarket music.

It can be sad, happy, energetic and all. It's no beethoven but there is a market for elevator music.lots of it
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