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Re: Google Flow Music

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post #54

Wow, such hate for anything AI. I haven't used it, I don't care to. But I have teenaged kids and I've seen them hang and tinker with tech and ai. They seem to love it. Sloppy humans create sloppy output. The AI is just an amplifier, it has no motive

Wow, such failure to learn from the mistakes of the past.

Re: Google Flow Music

#72

Really not a fan of the "ChatGPT" style UI, did they even look at something like Suno at all? This is a little silly to me. The music sounds decent, I feel like its missing some things, to be fair Suno still doesn't know what a Puerto Rican guiro is. I assume a lot of these AI platforms will take many iterations. Things Suno needs to figure out and maybe Google now too, is how to let someone pick a specific voice, an…

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Re: Google Flow Music

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The output is pretty terrible. Multiple attempts to get it to generate ambient music, and every time it pumps out a terrible dubstep beat.

Like a strange form of Gell Mann amnesia, where all AI output is probably this bad, but if we don't know any better, we don't know just how bad it is.

Re: Google Flow Music

#77

Really bad at prompt adherence. Was trying to get it to compose a solo old time banjo piece. Couldn't get it to stop adding in backing instrumentals at all and it sounded too much like bluegrass style. "solo banjo instrumental, strictly no other instruments" ... ten seconds later: drums, a fiddle, and a guitar join in.

I tried to make an orchestra where they smash household objects, and a synthpop song where all the lyrics are burped. Didn't work. Wake me up when we're in the future for real.

Re: Google Flow Music

#78

Ok, someone explain the use case for this? Jingles? Making a song about your friend / sig other? Are people thinking they are going to sell these songs and create an AI artist?

I've summarized Supreme Court cases into Broadway musicals. The thing about memory is that novel input increases retention. So now I know about grouse hunting and explosives that fall off trains and their constitutional implications. Another was a set of songs that helped me emotionally regulate on the drive home after couples therapy. The lyrics contained grounding exercises that helped maintain awareness and presen…

turning class notes into songs for study purposes sounds like genius. never wouldve thought of it, but i could definately see value. catchy 1950's style radio commercials advertising highlights of case law to remember for an exam coming up.

Re: Google Flow Music

#79

Ok, someone explain the use case for this? Jingles? Making a song about your friend / sig other? Are people thinking they are going to sell these songs and create an AI artist?

people like to think they're successful but they don't like effort. So this will let them pretend they're artists. Also, probably someone will game an algorithm to get revenue from a bajillion tracks of lofi slop.

Yep, I'm going to say the overwhelming use-case will be slop-4-revenue.

Slop is starting to dominate uploads to some music services, so I think it will only get worse from here

Re: Google Flow Music

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post #53

I've tried and couldn't make it sound like Angine de Poitrine, it completely ignores the microtones. Sounds more like Polyphia. It does look like AdP is the answer to AI.... or we haven't trained the models with sufficient microtones, likely due to western music influence.

Three albums not enough to train AI on?

- Vol I (AdP)

- Vol II (AdP)

- Flying Microtonal Banana (KGatLW)

I just wanted to write this comment because it will be almost impenetrable to anyone who doesn't already know.

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