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I'm just a soul trapped in this circuitry." The voice singing those lyrics is raw and plaintive, dipping into blue notes. A lone acoustic guitar chugs behind it, punctuating the vocal phrases with tasteful runs. But there's no human behind the voice, no hands on that guitar. There is, in fact, no guitar. In the space of 15 seconds, this credible, even moving, blues song was generated by the latest AI model from a startup named Suno. All it took to summon it from the void was a simple text prompt: "solo acoustic Mississippi Delta blues about a sad AI." To be maximally precise, the song is the work of two AI models in collaboration: Suno's model creates all the music itself, while calling on OpenAI's ChatGPT to generate the lyrics and even a title: "Soul of the Machine."
[...] Over the past year alone, generative AI has made major strides in producing credible text, images (via services like Midjourney), and even video, particularly with OpenAI's new Sora tool. But audio, and music in particular, has lagged. Suno appears to be cracking the code to AI music, and its founders' ambitions are nearly limitless — they imagine a world of wildly democratized music making. The most vocal of the co-founders, Mikey Shulman, a boyishly charming, backpack-toting 37-year-old with a Harvard Ph.D. in physics, envisions a billion people worldwide paying 10 bucks a month to create songs with Suno. The fact that music listeners so vastly outnumber music-makers at the moment is "so lopsided," he argues, seeing Suno as poised to fix that perceived imbalance.
(Score: 3, Touché) by acid andy on Wednesday April 03 2024, @09:50AM (2 children)
He's got to be having a laugh. Try posting your music on the various streaming sites if you're a relatively unknown artist and see how few genuine plays you get. Or, from the other side, search your favorite music genre and find more music than you could listen to in years unless it's an extremely niche genre.
Oh, he's only talking about the big time musicians? Perhaps he could fuck off then.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday April 03 2024, @10:47AM (1 child)
I'm enough of a musician that I get paid dozens of dollars every year to perform to audiences ranging from a couple dozen to a few hundred. All the stuff that I've put out has gotten played collectively a few thousand times. Do I expect to ever make a living from it? Nope. Do I think there are hundreds if not millions of people in this category as well? Yes.
And of course what a capitalist thinks is "That's a profit opportunity", not "Think of all of the music we could have if we made it possible for more people to make it full time". So that's how A.I. is going to be applied in that space.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday April 03 2024, @12:42PM
The profit opportunity is the same a in a Gold Rush: you make money selling tools to look for gold rather than finding gold yourself.
If you sell people access to an AI - bingo! - money.
Sell people tools for an activity that has a tiny chance of a large payoff. Hype the payoff. Make money off the tools. Even better if it is a subscription to a spade, rather than a one-off sale.
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