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Re: Google Flow Music

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Post by dabinat »

I’m a little confused about the pricing packages. In what scenario would being able to create 600 songs a month (20/day) be too few?

I could understand if this was an API that people built products around, but it seems to be geared directly at consumers.

Re: Google Flow Music

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Post by pavel_lishin »

Given how much Google lives to mash their offerings together, and then sunset them, I live in fear of them killing Google Youtube Music (or whatever it's called), in favor of combining functionality with this, and having my music cycle between my actual library, and bespoke AI-generated stuff.

Re: Google Flow Music

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Post by philringsmuth »

What I really hate about all of this, whether it’s music, images, video or anything else, is how much they all use the word “create.” As in, you can create the music you’ve always imagined.

You. Are. Not. Creating. Anything.

You are prompting. Then tweaking, changing, adjusting, etc. The tech is incredible, don’t get me wrong, but it’s advertised so blatantly as the user doing the creating.

Use it as a creativity tool, but don’t get caught up in the false belief that what it spits out is something you created.

Old man yells at cloud. Going back to my cave now.

Re: Google Flow Music

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Post by smallerfish »

dabinat wrote: post #2

I’m a little confused about the pricing packages. In what scenario would being able to create 600 songs a month (20/day) be too few? I could understand if this was an API that people built products around, but it seems to be geared directly at consumers.

If it's anything like suno, it probably takes you 30 to 40 attempts to dial in what you were looking for. (And don't get me wrong, the results can be great with suno - there's just a lot of trial and error, and dice rolling.)

Re: Google Flow Music

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Post by xnx »

philringsmuth wrote: post #5

What I really hate about all of this, whether it’s music, images, video or anything else, is how much they all use the word “create.” As in, you can create the music you’ve always imagined. You. Are. Not. Creating. Anything. You are prompting. Then tweaking, changing, adjusting, etc. The tech is incredible, don’t get me wrong, but it’s advertised so blatantly as the user doing the creating. Use it as a creativity too…

Where do you draw the line? Do composers create?

Re: Google Flow Music

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Post by gnopgnip »

philringsmuth wrote: post #5

What I really hate about all of this, whether it’s music, images, video or anything else, is how much they all use the word “create.” As in, you can create the music you’ve always imagined. You. Are. Not. Creating. Anything. You are prompting. Then tweaking, changing, adjusting, etc. The tech is incredible, don’t get me wrong, but it’s advertised so blatantly as the user doing the creating. Use it as a creativity too…

How does that work with using a camera to take photos?

Re: Google Flow Music

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Post by cwillu »

xnx wrote: post #8
philringsmuth wrote: post #5

What I really hate about all of this, whether it’s music, images, video or anything else, is how much they all use the word “create.” As in, you can create the music you’ve always imagined. You. Are. Not. Creating. Anything. You are prompting. Then tweaking, changing, adjusting, etc. The tech is incredible, don’t get me wrong, but it’s advertised so blatantly as the user doing the creating. Use it as a creativity too…

Where do you draw the line? Do composers create?

It is not necessary to draw a sharp line that clearly divides everything before saying “this is too far” about something that has, in fact, gone too far.
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