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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/suno-ai-chatgpt-for-music-1234982307/
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: 2, Troll) by gtomorrow on Wednesday April 03 2024, @01:42PM
Why all the fuss? At least speaking from a "Western" musical standpoint, there are only twelve semitones, a finite number of arrangement permutations of those semitones (mostly) following set musical conventions plus variation of rhythms and tempos. When talking about pop music, it gets even simpler regardless of sub-genre: it's predominantly in 4/4 time and resolving to the tonic with mainly 1-4-1, 1-5-1, 1-4-5 (standard blues), 1-m6-4(or m2)-5 (think "Blue Moon" or "Enola Gay"). Choose your instrumentation (or not), which also follows set formulas and you have music. Depending how jarring or off-standards you want to compose, you can always add elements of musique concrete.
My point being is that
a computerAI can do that and easily. It's comparable to Deep Blue, I'd imagine. Any of this "human touch" or "hit record" nonsense is psychological projection of the listener and/or marketing. There's astoundingly less "Uncanny Valley" with audio. We all like what we like and make up reasons afterward.