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Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by orthecreedence »

jsheard wrote: post #2

Yeah I've heard this story before. What's actually going to happen is that Spotify and every other music streaming service will be filled with 50 million functionally identical AI generated songs made by people looking to scrape off a few cents when people listen to them by accident.

Right, this will probably end up being like how autotune was for singers.

I don't really want "anyone" to make music. I want people who are good at making music to make music. Yeah we should remove barriers for those people, but honestly nothing beats practice and dedication. Tech seems more and more focused on regurgitation instead of creation.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by ein0p »

jsheard wrote: post #2

Yeah I've heard this story before. What's actually going to happen is that Spotify and every other music streaming service will be filled with 50 million functionally identical AI generated songs made by people looking to scrape off a few cents when people listen to them by accident.

Spotify is already filled with “10 million of functionally identical songs” made by people “looking to scrape off a few cents”. The state of the art, such as it is, could hardly be any worse.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by janice1999 »

ein0p wrote: post #12
jsheard wrote: post #2

Yeah I've heard this story before. What's actually going to happen is that Spotify and every other music streaming service will be filled with 50 million functionally identical AI generated songs made by people looking to scrape off a few cents when people listen to them by accident.

Spotify is already filled with “10 million of functionally identical songs” made by people “looking to scrape off a few cents”. The state of the art, such as it is, could hardly be any worse.

Automating slop will absolutely increase its volume multiple orders of magnitude. At least human made music, however terrible, stands the chance of accidentally being interesting.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by eurekin »

jsheard wrote: post #2

Yeah I've heard this story before. What's actually going to happen is that Spotify and every other music streaming service will be filled with 50 million functionally identical AI generated songs made by people looking to scrape off a few cents when people listen to them by accident.

Multiyear long spotify listener.

I think it's already flooded with spam from non real artists. I had weekly discovery playlists, where I did downvote all of proposed songs... Each new set was still coming with most boring, uninspired, flat and predictable structure (and abstract cover art), which for me is an exact equivalent of those NFT images.

The images are designed to be a set of replaceable elements that have to follow the same "joint structure". Once you see it, all charm is lost and that vague "why does it look so funny" feeling is simply replaced with disappointment.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by ein0p »

QuercusMax wrote: post #4
ein0p wrote: post #3

It’s a fun service and an impressive demo, but to “make music” I need a lot more control than just entering the lyrics and describing the style. That said, there are some awesome examples there already, even with the current limitations, so I’m hopeful. Apparently so are their investors.

So this is just using voice synthesis and some sort of "AI" to put lyrics over a backing track? Can't imagine anything lasting or worthwhile will come out of this.

It’s great for what it is. Go to their site and give it a listen. I was even able to generate my own stuff that sounded quite good to my hobbyist musician ear. Some tracks are so good that you wouldn’t know they’re generated if you heard them on your favorite streaming service

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by jbgreer »

In the free tier, Suno owns all of the Output. I'm wondering when someone will make a song, realize it's pretty good, and attempt to recreate it after creating a paid tier account.

Subject to your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, if you are a user who has subscribed to the paid tier of the Service, Suno hereby assigns to you all of its right, title and interest in and to any Output owned by Suno and generated from Submissions made by you through the Service during the term of your paid-tier subscription. If you are a user of the free tier of the Service then, as between you and Suno, Suno owns all Output generated from Submissions made by you through the Service, and, subject to your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, Suno grants you a license to use such Output solely for your lawful, internal, and non-commercial purposes, provided that you give attribution credit to Suno in each case.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by danielk1994 »

It blows my mind how well Suno works. It's one of the few products I tried lately that exceeded by expectations by a wide margin. As an amateur songwriter who is a bad singer, hearing its interpretations of my songs was beautiful. The implications of this for the music industry is pretty disruptive.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Post by janice1999 »

jbgreer wrote: post #17

In the free tier, Suno owns all of the Output. I'm wondering when someone will make a song, realize it's pretty good, and attempt to recreate it after creating a paid tier account. Subject to your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, if you are a user who has subscribed to the paid tier of the Service, Suno hereby assigns to you all of its right, title and interest in and to any Output owned by Suno and gener…

As expected. Related:

Suno, a Music Generative AI, Likely Trained on Copyrighted Materials

https://80.lv/articles/suno-a-music-generative-ai-likely-tra...

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