Huh I had the opposite reaction—I was listening to it and was like “meh these voices are a bit bland, the beats are too but that’s fine I guess. Makes sense for an amateur band. Good effort though, and great April Fools joke.” Now I’m like “wait this is AI? Cooooooool”
UPDATE: I judged them too harshly. I think the voices and beats are not bland in general, I think just for the first song or two that I happened to listen to. Also, most of the songs are growing on me as I listen to them.
It’s clear to me from the post that to properly enjoy it as performance art, the audience is meant to believe that the music is AI-generated.
I don’t read the post as disclosing how the music was “actually” made, in the most literal real-world sense.
Pretty cool, regardless, that we live in an era where ‘people pretending to be AI making music’ is not trivial to distinguish from ‘AI trying to make music’ :)
I was about 50⁄50 on it being AI-made, but then when I saw the title “Thought That Faster” was a song, I became much more sure, because that was a post that happened only a couple weeks ago I believe, and if it was human-made I assume it would take longer to go from post to full song. Then I read this post.
Having done a bunch of regular-ol’-fashioned songwriting, I actually don’t think it takes that much longer for an experienced songwriting to get to decent-ish quality song. (This varies a lot on how hard the muse is striking me. Usually there is an initial phase where I’m figuring out the core structure and heart of the song. I’m not personally fluent at playing instruments but if I was I think it’d take a 2-8 hours to hash out the chord structure, and then 2-8 hours to do a decent recording if I hire professional musicians)
(to be clear, this is to get “a decent-ish” song recording. In practice songwriting/recording takes much longer because I have higher standards and iterate on them until I feel really happy with them, but if I wanted to bang out an album I think I could do it in 2 weeks)
Si, it’s standing-ovation stuff. What I find odd is that the lyrics are human. I suppose, less out of necessity, but more out of possibility. If one were to classify the AI music, which bucket (Euro/Afro/Asio) would it fall into? I wonder … a mashup perhaps? If this ain’t your style, maybe something else is … and so … bucket.
Same. Should I short record companies for the upcoming inevitable AI musician strike, and then long Spotify for when 85% of their content is Royalty free AI generated content?
I did not know AI has gotten this good at creating music. Wow...
I didn’t see a clear indication in the post about whether the music is AI-generated or not, and I’d like to know; was there an indication I missed?
(I care because I’ll want to listen to that music less if it’s AI-generated.)
Huh I had the opposite reaction—I was listening to it and was like “meh these voices are a bit bland, the beats are too but that’s fine I guess. Makes sense for an amateur band. Good effort though, and great April Fools joke.” Now I’m like “wait this is AI? Cooooooool”
UPDATE: I judged them too harshly. I think the voices and beats are not bland in general, I think just for the first song or two that I happened to listen to. Also, most of the songs are growing on me as I listen to them.
I’m currently listening to the playlist on repeat fwiw. :)
Yes, it doesn’t say so explicitly, but it’s very clear from the post that it is.
It’s clear to me from the post that to properly enjoy it as performance art, the audience is meant to believe that the music is AI-generated.
I don’t read the post as disclosing how the music was “actually” made, in the most literal real-world sense.
Pretty cool, regardless, that we live in an era where ‘people pretending to be AI making music’ is not trivial to distinguish from ‘AI trying to make music’ :)
Huh. That’s not a possibility I considered. I’m still betting it is AI generated but you changed my odds.
I was about 50⁄50 on it being AI-made, but then when I saw the title “Thought That Faster” was a song, I became much more sure, because that was a post that happened only a couple weeks ago I believe, and if it was human-made I assume it would take longer to go from post to full song. Then I read this post.
Having done a bunch of regular-ol’-fashioned songwriting, I actually don’t think it takes that much longer for an experienced songwriting to get to decent-ish quality song. (This varies a lot on how hard the muse is striking me. Usually there is an initial phase where I’m figuring out the core structure and heart of the song. I’m not personally fluent at playing instruments but if I was I think it’d take a 2-8 hours to hash out the chord structure, and then 2-8 hours to do a decent recording if I hire professional musicians)
(to be clear, this is to get “a decent-ish” song recording. In practice songwriting/recording takes much longer because I have higher standards and iterate on them until I feel really happy with them, but if I wanted to bang out an album I think I could do it in 2 weeks)
Was over two years ago.
Si, it’s standing-ovation stuff. What I find odd is that the lyrics are human. I suppose, less out of necessity, but more out of possibility. If one were to classify the AI music, which bucket (Euro/Afro/Asio) would it fall into? I wonder … a mashup perhaps? If this ain’t your style, maybe something else is … and so … bucket.
Same. Should I short record companies for the upcoming inevitable AI musician strike, and then long Spotify for when 85% of their content is Royalty free AI generated content?