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Re: Suno AI

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Cool: Make music even if you know little about making music. You can hear some of the AI-generated songs here: https://app.suno.ai/

Are you making music, or generating music?

Neither. The people who built the AI are generating music for you.

Re: Suno AI

#123

What's the legal status of ToS clauses about restrictions on what you can do with the generated audio? I'd have thought that AI can't own copyright -- what does that say about one's ability to monetize (under the free tier, say) -- are those prohibitions enforceable? (I can make plenty of guesses myself, so I'm most interested in hearing informed replies with references rather than speculation.)

This is a contract violation, not a copyright issue. But if you share your audio with someone who isn’t party to this agreement, there is likely nothing stopping THEM from using it commercially.

Re: Suno AI

#124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to elaborate?

Music is a such a human thing, that getting an AI to create it, really kind of bastardises it.

That's just like...your opinion.

If aliens come down tomorrow with "superior" music, I guess it is humans who will be bastardising it. Stop gatekeeping :)

Re: Suno AI

#126
Back when the music genome was started, and you let your stream play long enough, every single stream would eventually play Phil Collins.

I would be the farm that eventually, every song output out of this to be the same.

Oh, I love me some Phil Collins too.

More tools to make the universal language is a good thing.

Re: Suno AI

#129
Am I using it wrong? Getting an error about the Suno being intended for generating original music with this prompt:

"slow pop song with synth and plucky strings about being alone on the holidays"

Re: Suno AI

#130
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think his personality was really that much of an outlier when his music first became popular, so I'd argue that empirically the answer is yes. From looking at Wikipedia, his first album was released in 2004 and charted at number 2, with his first single hitting 15 on the charts and his follow-up being number 1. I don't think you can argue that he was famous enough for anyone to be listening to the music becau…

Nobody needs to know who the artist ahead of time is to connect to what they say (instrumentally or vocally). The art does the talking. I largely agree that if you don't know anything about music but generate some stuff with a very-high-level AI tool then you are unlikely to produce anything that resonates with people for any significant amount of time. If you do know something about music (say, producer- or other-ta…

> I largely agree that if you don't know anything about music but generate some stuff with a very-high-level AI tool then you are unlikely to produce anything that resonates with people for any significant amount of time.

I feel like you're not really making a strong assertion here because of how subjective "resonates with people for any significant amount of time" is. Instead, I'd propose something akin to the Turing test; instead of conversing with someone and trying to determine if they're a computer or a human, the participant would listen to to a piece of music and try to guess whether it was made "traditionally" or by someone who used an AI tool and had no experience making music in any other fashion. I think we're not far from the point where it would be possible to generate instrumental music with AI that would be indistinguishable from a control set of human-created music (either instrumental or with the vocal track removed from the mix) with a certain level of complexity (let's say songs without changes in tempo, time signature, or key, which would give us at absolute minimum a few thousand popular mainstream songs over the past half century, and potentially a lot more). How long do you think it will take for this to be possible (if ever)? If you don't think it will ever be possible, why not? And if you do think it will be possible, isn't this sufficient evidence that there isn't any inherent need for a "human" element in music?

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