An AI Singer-Songwriter Just Debuted Her Original Song

There can be nothing new or original out of AI because all of its inputs are stolen from what already exists. Real creativity comes solely from humans. Also, that clip - the song, singing, and visual - is dreadful in every way.
This needs to be hammered into techbro's heads until they shut the fuck up about the so-called "AI" revolution.
- I've been doing a lot of using, testing, and evaluating LLMs and GPT-style models for generating code and text/prose. Some of it is just general use to see how it behaves, some has been explicit evaluation of creative writing, and a bunch of it is code generation to test out how we need to modify our CS curriculum in light of these new tools.
  It's an impressive piece of technology, but it's not very creative. It's meh. The results are meh. Which is to be expected since it's a statistical model that's using a large body of prior work to produce a reasonable approximation of what it's seen before. It trends towards the mean, not the best.
  
  This'd explain why inexperienced users of ai would inevitably get mediocre results. Still takes creativity to get stolen mediocrity.
  
  and a bunch of it is code generation to test out how we need to modify our CS curriculum in light of these new tools.
  I'm curious if you've gotten anything decent out of them. I've tried to use it for tech/code questions, and it's been nothing but disappointment after disappointment. I've tried to use it to get help with new concepts, but it hallucinates like crazy and always give me bad results, some of the time it's so bad that it gives me answers I've already told it we're wrong.
  
  It trends towards the mean, not the best.
  That's where some of the significant advances over the past 12 months of research have been, specifically around using the fine tuning phase to bias towards excellence. The biggest advance there has been that capabilities in larger models seem to be transmissible to smaller models by feeding in output from the larger more complex models.
  Also, the process supervision work to enhance CoT from May is pretty nuts.
  So while you are correct that the pretrained models come out with a regression towards the mean, there are very promising recent advances in taking that foundation and moving it towards excellence.
  
  I'm excited for how these tools will be used by human creators to accomplish things they could never do alone, and in that aspect it is a revolutionary technology. I hate that their marketing calls it "AI" though, the only intelligence involved is the human user that creates prompts and curates results.
- I get the sentiment, but don't really agree. Humans' inputs are also from what already exists, and music is generally inspired from other music which is why "genres" even exist. AI's not there yet, but the statement "real creativity comes solely from humans" Needs Citation. Humans are a bunch of chemical reactions and firing synapses, nothing out of the realm of the possible for a computer.
  
  the statement “real creativity comes solely from humans” Needs Citation.
  Yeah, I'd actually make a more limited statement. Real creativity requires the subjective experience and the ability to generate inputs solely from subjectivity i.e. experience the redness of the color red. AI could definitely do that, which is why LLMs are not AI imo
- It's not the techbros leading this, it's the BBAs and MBAs that wouldn't know art if Michelangelo came to life and slapped them in the face with the sistine chapel.
  
  I would never call an actual technician a techbro! Techbros are Rick&Morty ledditor "fuck yeah science!" dorks.
- I see it an more an inability to analyze, evaluate, and edit. A lot of "creativity" in the world of musical composition is putting together existing elements and seeing what happens. Any composer from pop to the very avant-garde, is influenced and sometimes even borrow from their predecessors (it's why copyright law is so complex in music).
  It's the ability to make judgements, does this sound good/interesting, does this have value, would anyone want to listen to this, and adjust accordingly that will lead to something original and great. Humans are so good at this, we might be making edits before the notes hit the page (Brainstorming). This AI clearly wasn't. And deciding on value, seems wildly complex for modern day computers. Humans can agree on it (if you like Rock, but hate country for example).
  So in the end, they are "creative" but in a monkey-typewritter situation, but who is going to sort through the billions of songs like this to find the one masterpiece?
  
  but who is going to sort through the billions of songs like this to find the one masterpiece?
  One of the overlooked aspects of generative AI is that effectively by definition generative models can also be classifiers.
  So let's say you were Spotify and you fed into an AI all the songs as well as the individual user engagement metadata for all those songs.
  You'd end up with a model that would be pretty good at effectively predicting the success of a given song on Spotify.
  So now you can pair a purely generative model with the classifier, so you spit out song after song but only move on to promoting it if the classifier thinks there's a high likelihood of it being a hit.
  Within five years systems like what I described above will be in place for a number of major creative platforms, and will be a major profit center for the services sitting on audience metadata for engagement with creative works.
  
  Plenty of humans make those judgements about their own creations. And plenty of them get a shock when they release their creations to the masses and don't get the praise that they expected.
  
  I see it an more an inability to analyze, evaluate, and edit.
  I believe that's vital to the creative process, but yeah, I basically agree.
- "Generative" is such a misleading term. It's not generating anything, it is replicative.
- The anger comes from the fact that companies are using AI instead of hiring artists.
  There is a distinction between a human being inspired by an existing piece of art and an ai creating something from other art. The human has to experience it through the lens of the human experience and create using the human body. AI takes multiple pieces of art and essentially makes a collage.
  
  Ummm don’t humans learn exactly the same way?
  For the thousandth fucking time, NO.
  'AI' doesn't feel joy, sadness, pity, entertained, or inspired when learning from others. Not even inspired to steal.
- For now.
  And don't forget, humans are also trained on the inputs of others.
  
  The difference is everyone has a different prospective, remembers some parts forgets others. Some journalists found a trick which revealed ChatGPT training data and it was literally just verbatim stolen data which literally contained a real person's information. You could hack into someone's brain and they wouldn't be able to directly recreate anything from memory alone, just watch any "from memory" youtube video.
  While it's true there's nothing stopping AI from having human-like experiences, the content laundering is the thing corporations actually want.
- Meat goes in. Sausage comes out.
  The problem for a lot of the companies behind these things, is that they've run into problems now their investors want them to turn meat into a black forest gateau.
  I'm sceptical if they can manage that feat. But what do I know.
- Still, AI is able to "create" new things by a combination of existing concepts. It can generate a Roomba in the style of Van Gogh for example, which is probably not something that currently exists.
  
  "Roomba in the style of Van Gogh" is a new combination of existing things, but it can never create something truly original. Derivative.
- Are you saying the idea of a unicorn wasn't new and original because it was drawing on the pre-existing features of a horse and narwhal?
- Right just as soon as all the people proclaiming that can point to the soul bit of my brain. There is absolutely no reason to say that AI cannot be creative there's nothing fundamentally magic about creativity that means only humans can do it.
  
  You're equating creativity to the soul. They're not the same thing. But we can definitely look at the brain and see what parts light up when perform creative tasks.
  
  The belief that only humans can be creative is interestingly parallel to intelligent design creationism. The latter is fundamentally a religious faith, but it strongly appeals to the intuition that anything that happens needs a humanoid creator.
  
  I don't think, the human brain is special either, but we are still two big steps ahead IMHO:
  We can perceive what we've generated, to judge whether it's good or bad.
  We perceive many, many inputs throughout our lives. Not just text, visuals, audio, but also taste, smell, touch and more. To be simultaneously creative and relatable to humans, AIs would need to be equipped with these concepts and would need to be given 'memories', which are fleshed out with all these kinds of input.
- Yes, it is literally impossible for any AI to ever exist that can be creative. At no point in the future will it ever create anything creative, that is something only human beings can do. Anybody that doesn't understand this is simply incapable of using logic and they have no right to contribute to the conversation at all. This has all already been decided by people who understand things really well and anyone who objects is obviously stupid.
  
  Good job tearing down that strawman! 🙄
  
  Oh shit, I thought you had forgotten a "/s" at the end, but reading your other comments this is actually what you believe and how you talk. So... yeah, I'm not going to take someone who cites "people who understand things really well" as a source at face value.
- Except that it's wrong... AI is capable of creativity. It created the artist name. It's clearly not a very developed or robust sense of creativity because it clearly just hashed up the name Hanna Montana, and the song is probably likewise just a hashed up existing song, but I'm guessing it probably did a better job of creating an original work than vanilla ice...
  
  Would you say that a random name generator is a creative algorithm?
  
  I'm sorry, anyone who says these so-called "AI" are capable of creativity are being hoodwinked by marketing. This is an algorithmic probability engine, it doesn't think and it doesn't have an imagination. It just regurgitates probabilistic responses from its large data set.
  
  hashed up
  capable of creativity

How to make line assembled pop music even more sterile and devoid of soul. Now at one thousandth the cost! But wait, how are CEOs going to molest child artists when they aren't real?!
- They just molest regular childer I reckon

The fact that AI can produce this is impressive as to where we have come with AI. But can this actually threaten human artists?
In the United States, a federal judge ruled in 2023 that AI artwork cannot meet federal copyright standards because “Copyright law is ‘limited to the original intellectual conceptions of the author’.” With no author, there is no copyright.
~~https://www.makeuseof.com/copyright-rules-ai-art/~~ See u/Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 's article below.
"The answer will depend on the circumstances, particularly how the AI tool operates and how it was used to create the final work," the office said.
Under current US law, that song is probably now in the public domain. If the law changes, that could mean that in the future, music charts potentially could be filled with AI songs. As it stands, this is most-likely a public domain music machine cranking out music that anyone can use royalty-free. It depends on the interpretation of the courts.
- You should cite this article instead. It's more up-to-date.
  
  Fair enough,
- The threshold for how much human input counts as "authorship" is extremely low. Photographers get copyright over pictures they take when their sole contribution to the image is aiming the camera and pushing a button. Most AI-generated art involves a lot of human input in the form of prompting, selecting outputs, and then often tweaking or splicing them together in various ways.
  But even if by some weird twist US courts do rule this sort of thing to be public domain, why wouldn't this "threaten human artists?" Having awesome AI-generated art being public domain seems like the best of both worlds to me - you get awesome art and it's legally unencumbered. How would a human artist compete with that? Their art would be more expensive and you'd have all kinds of limitations on what you can do with it.
  
  If the autogenerated art becomes too close to copyrighted art, then you'll have humans suing AI generators.
  George Harrison's My Sweet Lord is very similar to He's So Fine by the Chiffons. And that was an easy case. But some cases in requires deeper analysis, such as Lana Del Ray's Get Free.
  In January 2018, singer Lana Del Rey claimed that Radiohead were suing her because of alleged similarities between their 1992 debut single Creep, and her song Get Free, from her 2017 album Lust for Life. The band's publishers Warner/Chappell subsequently denied taking legal action, but did confirm requesting credit for “all writers” of Creep.
  The Guardian spoke to a professional composer to analyse the songs, who noted that the chords used are rare in pop music, and the melodies bear an uncanny resemblance, although in conclusion “imagined the similarities are unintentional”.
  https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190605-nine-most-notorious-copyright-cases-in-music-history
  If AI is sampling, then how do you defend it being unintentional? While all Radiohead sought was credit on the writing (in this case), would humans (whose livelihood is being threatened) be so generous with an AI composition? And if the music industry is threatened by AI, they will lawyer up.
- The mistake you are making is in thinking that the future of media will rely on the same infrastructure as what it's been historically.
  Media is evolving from being a product, where copyright matters in protecting your product from duplication, to being a service where any individual work is far less valuable because of the degree to which it is serving a niche market.
  Look at how many of the audio money makers on streaming platforms are defined by their genre rather than a specific work. Lofi Girl or ASMR made a ton of money, but there's not a single specific work that is what made them popular like with a typical recording artist with a hit song.
  The future of something like Spotify will not be a handful of AI artists creating hit singles you and everyone else want to listen to, but AI artists taking the music you uniquely love to listen to and extending it in ways that are optimized around your individual preferences like a personalized composer/performer available 24/7 at low cost.
  In that world, copyright for AI produced works really doesn't matter for profitability, because AI creation has been completely commoditized.
- With no author, there is no copyright.
  So old characters such as Mickey Mouse are all fine to use as the authors are dead?
  
  The authors may be dead, but they did exist. The work had an author.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
  If you're going to use a character some human ever created, hire a lawyer. The House of Mouse has their own lawyers.
  
  I bet they didn't consider this one when writing the law!

That's pretty amazing.
The song sucks, but here was the cutting edge of AI music just seven years ago.
That it's gone from some nightmarish fever dream mashup to wannabe pop influencer levels of quality in less than a decade is pretty crazy, and as long as there isn't a plateau in the next seven years we'll probably be in a world where AI generated musical artists have a popular enough following that they will have successful holographic concert performances by 2030.
I over and over see people making the mistake of evaluating the future of AI based on the present state while ignoring the rate of change between the past and present.
Yeah, most of your experiences of AI in various use cases is mediocre right now. But what we have today in most areas of AI was literally thought to be impossible or very far out just a number of years ago. The fact you have any direct experiences of AI in the early 2020s is fucking insane and beyond anyone's expectations a decade earlier. And the rate of continued improvement is staggering. Probably the fastest moving field I've ever witnessed.
- Call me crazy but I absolutely preferred the fever dream mashup that you posted.
  
  Well, the Beatles and Beach boys are better than emo YouTube influencers as a genre.
  But the quality of the production of the fever dream is dramatically worse.
- Technically we already have things like Vocaloid, which aren't AI yet, but do have their own holographic concerts that are popular in places like Japan and China. So having an AI artist come on stage and sing be too farfetched for me, despite the fact I'd hate it because it's a soulless entity devised by the corporate fascists. As for the quality of AI generated songs, no clue, but I can totally see them just ripping off up and coming human artists and then sending cease and desist letters to them for "StEaLiNg Ai GeNeRaTeD mUsIc" that was originally stolen or just stealing popular vocaloid songs and piggybacking off of every single person they can for profit.
  
  A useful razor for the near future:
  Copyright exists to encourage human creativity.
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- Keep in mind, though, AI progress is often more like punctuated equilibrium.
  Each new approach gets you much further, and polishing each approach gets you slight improvements until the next approach comes along. Improvements to chatgpt might plateau until the next big breakthrough architecture. Or maybe not.
  
  polishing each approach gets you slight improvements
  Without the base model changing at all, research into better use of the models has, depending on the measurement, gone from around 35% success rates to 85% success rates.
  I wouldn't define that as slight.
- Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears was the best AI song ever.
- Hold up. This sounds WAY better!
  Is my opinion wrong?

Lots of hostility, but that's to be expected. Research has shown that humans generally like AI-generated content as long as they don't know it's AI generated content, and when they find out they switch over to hating it.
It's simply bias. It'll go away eventually.
- I mean, even if this song was coming from a human it'd be derivative, boring, and worthless.
  If anything, the fact something comparable to mediocre human YouTube musical artists is being AI generated is the thing that is wild and impressive. The song itself in isolation is beyond meh.
  
  I mean, even if this song was coming from a human it’d be derivative, boring, and worthless.
  Quite a lot of music pumped out by labels is.
- Seriously, my thought was "I have friends who have Soundclouds that sound worse than this". But I don't call my friends' music "just brutal" or "dreadful in every way".
- or we will just have an AI vs humans War and get our assess kicked
- People can call ai generated movie shit or boring or whatever all they want, but i heard for example Henry styles watermelon sugar high, that song was popular as hell, and it might as well just be ai generated mambo jambo

Looking at the hateful comments gives me shivers when thinking how humans will proceed with machines on an emotional level.
If we ever reach sentinent AI, it will go towards I-Robot plot. Ill bet.
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- I don't hate the technology, I hate the corporate fascists using it to further erode human culture and turn the planet into generic brand toothpaste.
- Or Battlestar Galactica. Create a new species, make them humanoid, make them sentient, and then treat them like shit. Great.
- iRobot and WALL-E soon to be facts
  
  iRobot [...] soon to be facts
  Beware the sinister Roomba, what are they doing with all the dirt they steal from our floors?
  
  I'm sorry, Dave
- I have been thinking the exact same.
  Better movie comparison: A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg
  
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  Brendan gleesan was really in every fucking (good) movie at that time...
- Good thing the stuff people call AI now isn't and never will be capable of emotion, that way I can call it and things it generates stupid and bad and worthless without anyone getting offended :3

I have a feeling they knew how this would be received considering it seems like they're rage-baiting and acting pretentious to try and get attention.
- I accidentally submitted early, but also, I wrote out the lyrics. It's the most bland version of those breakup-depression kind of songs imaginable. I guess people voted it as "feel-good" out of irony.
  Sitting at my favorite cafe
  Sipping my tea it's saturday
  Thinking about all he's done, to everyone
  This town is full of broken dreams
  Shattered hopes, and silent screams
  Somebody please help me
  Betrayed by this town
  Let's tear it all down
  We're all just destined to fall
  I've lost it all
  Betrayed by this town
  Let's tear it all down
  We're all just destined to fall
  We've lost it all
  Alone in the streets, alone in my thoughts
  Thinking of all our favorite spots
  I thought someday things might turn around
  But I was lost and never found
  Betrayed by this town
  Let's tear it all down
  We're all just destined to fall
  I've lost it all
  Betrayed by this town
  Let's tear it all down
  We're all just destined to fall
  We've lost it all
  Faces painted with smiles
  Lies are told
  A facade of unity
  A vitality sold
  So I sit here in silence
  Just wondering how
  To rewrite the tales
  This town won't allow
  Betrayed by this town
  Let's tear it all down
  We're all just destined to fall
  I've lost it all
  Betrayed by this town
  Let's tear it all down
  We're all just destined to fall
  We've lost it all
  I've lost it all
  We've lost it all
  
  “Betrayed by this town / Let’s burn it all down “ might be the most relevant chorus of today’s music. It’ll be stuck in my head all night and would fit right in at most protests

It's not as though the article is any better - bots just wrapping up a comment thread from twitter, cramming it with ads, and presenting it as an article.
Late stage capitalist media is a dumpster fire.
- Yeah, my blocked website list is growing everyday with websites that are literally just a 4 paragraph summary of a reddit post. 3 of the paragraphs are usually just "user 'spezcocksucker' says this but another person disagrees. Here's the reddit link and 27 ads.

That picture is weird, there's some AI nonsense going on with the microphone shock mount, and her jaw doesn't line up with the rest of her face. Plus the usual uncanny valley weirdness of an AI generated image.
Not even going to bother with the song.
- But it's so bad you have to
  
  It's not worth giving any attention to so it doesn't spread any further.

This is the worst AI will ever be, again.
Right now, at the end of 2023, you are seeing barely a year of public interest and widespread development, after maybe a decade of slowly grinding academic experimentation. And already it's enough to build some Vocaloid knockoff from scratch. You can tell it's fake, as surely as a seven-fingered hand on some anime girl staring dead into the camera. But if you think all AI drawings still look like that... you should go check.
This isn't a threat to artists, though. It's a threat to the industry. Real human beings who want to make art will have more and better tools than ever before. Audiences that want an endless spigot of AI content... won't need recording studios. You can already run this stuff on your computer. Some networks are getting better by getting bigger, which demands a really fancy computer. Other networks are getting better by getting smaller. Smaller networks train faster, even if they're deeper, more abstract, and less predictable. They run faster, too, and on lesser hardware.
Hold onto your butts, folks. It's gonna get weird.
Also, far from the most pressing issue here, but: just say Twitter. You don't have to respect the stupid rebrand. You know it's stupid because everyone keeps clarifying what they mean.
- Still wishing everybody would just start calling it Xitter.
  
  Pronounced "shitter", I assume
- Elon has no problem with people deadnaming trans people on his website so why should we avoid deadnaming his website.
  
  The actions of bigots are not a good "golden rule" situation. You are called what you want to be called.
  But a business is not a person. Fuck what they want. Businesses are called whatever people recognize.
  Same shit goes for Blackwater and Facebook. Reputation is a necessary part of commerce and politics, and escaping it through shell games is idiotic bullshit we should never respect.

Not so much an expert rather than just parroting what I saw, but according to a cursory search, and a Twitter community note I saw from a friend, the voice used by this project is Synthesizer V, which is actually a perfectly legitimate piece of software for using digital voices in music production. If you've heard of Vocaloid, or know about Hatsune Miku, SynthV is basically a competitor in that space.
Going back to the community note, the voice used is actually called Natalie, and apparently the TOS of SynthV does not allow use of its voices using a name that's different to what was given. So they essentially can't present the Natalie voice as Anna, which they are.
EDIT: I want to clarify that these voice synthesisers like SynthV and Vocaloid are usually based on the recording of someone who has consented to the use of their voice in that regard and has been paid for it. It's not like the current AI voice cloning trend going on.
- Thank you, I was wondering about the voice synthesis and if it was part of the AI model they used.
  
  No prob! These digital voices have been around for over a decade now, maybe more. Some of them use "AI" to improve the sound of the voice (i.e. support more languages than actually recorded, make it sound realistic) but not in the way that current AI voice trends are going.
- I've used Synthesizer V Studio and the clip in the video definitely showed that's what they used.
  It looks like they should be disclosing ALL the tools they used to make this. Probably part of the TOS of the other programs too.

- “It’s pretty scary, but it’s scary in the sense of how stupid music already is anyway, so it’s not that frightening. Like, ‘This thing can make a pop song!’ Have you heard a pop song? Great. Let it go. Unleash the beast, you know – holy shit would that ever open up the niche market for actual musicianship.”
  ~ deadmau5 during an interview with MusicTech.
- Am I the only one who's brain looks at that URL and just sees "anal'n dianna"?
  
  That boy ain’t right
- And not in a fun way:
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Watching the video and the head movement all I see is the Balenciaga ai meme

YouTube link for those that want to see it for themselves. ~~https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3T175LTQFnw~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l71Hh1gPkE
To me the biggest problem with it is that it doesn't understand the relationship between the meanings of the words and the melody of the song. It kinda makes it sound like a bad parody song. I think if you looked at just the lyrics or just the melody they would be quite convincing on their own.
- It's... not that bad. There's pop out there on the radio that's worse.
  
  pop's an extremely low bar.
- What the fuck WHY WOULD THEY PIN THAT??
  AI owners can't be normal if they tried.
  
  So my bad, this video is not made by the creators of the song, but by an anti-AI person, they added the subtitles, the cutaways to evil robots and the weird message at the end. They are also called "Big Data Analytics".
  Here's something that looks more legit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l71Hh1gPkE

I think in the context of K-Pop it makes total sense, the music and everything around is anyway just done after a formula which has proven to work very well to sell. While right now you need to put children and teenagers through years of rigorous training and expose them to immense stress and pressure so most of them break, with AI you can easily replicate the same formula and refine much quicker without throwing so many young people into the meat grinder of the music industry.
More money and control for the companies less people killing themselves.
The ones who really burn for the music will make music despite AI music being available. And they also will find an audience, even though it might be smaller.
- What I worry about this is mainstream becoming "accustomed" to assemblyline content by AI. What if eventually people start actually consider the conformity to be good thing and originality deviant? Of course there will always be people who dont care what other think but vast majority of people seems to at least on some level be very conscious about it.
  Imagine being the weird one just because you don't like ai generated crap
  
  Have you seen the movie WALL-E? The people on the space-ship they're consuming engaging content all day long, nobody is creating anything anymore, so all this must been created by the AI. I'm just trying to say that it's not a novel idea. Writers and artists have been imagining this future for ourselves for a long time.
  
  When you think about it, that's pretty much the history of boy bands, going all the way back to the Monkees. The faces were carefully chosen for demographic reasons, the songs were written by the labels and targeted for specific demographics, the faces' histories were largely constructed fictions (and published through "unauthorized" fan magazines and books that were ghostwritten by the labels and laundered through other publishing companies). The only real difference is that now software is being used for it rather than marketing teams.
- While right now you need to put children and teenagers through years of rigorous training and expose them to immense stress and pressure so most of them break
  Uh... I don't think that's a necessary part of the process to making k-pop, or any kind of music. Industry people may think it's critical to making themselves shit-loads of money, but it's not important for the creation music or even selling the music.
  
  Yeah, that's what I meant with the rest of my text that people will make music still, and this corporate breaking the children and teenagers can be replaced by AI.
- Quite disturbing to see open support for our own dispossession rationalized this way.
  
  I'm a programmer, we've been advocating and working on replacing ourselves with scripts since the 50ies.

I think it sounds the same as other shitty music I hear all the time.
I fully expect AI music to be part of the musical scene going forward.
Does it feel dystopian? Yeah, it's not a fun future. But this is here to stay.
- . I think it sounds the same as other shitty music I hear all the time.
  That's because it's literally a machine made to copy exactly that.
  
  All I hear is profit for the record labels.
  But yeah, AI will be able to evolve too. We will have some good AI music soon also.
  In a decade, high budget movies will have some AI actors in them and people won't notice. :)
- AI music can be fire if you use it as a part of the artistic process, not as the end result. It's just every fucking technocracker wants to replace the artistic process completely so they don't have to not pay their employees any more. EDIT: Actual AI, not that OpenAI content laundering shit.
  
  Force multipliers are great for forces of good and terrible for forces of evil.
  Like wanting to make audio versions of text. Great for increasing access ability for people. Terrible when it's just to funnel people from the texts authors to your front for money and to serve ads.
  Same tools.
  
  AI music is also going to suck if you give it shitty pop music to train on.

Here I am just wondering how much automation went into tuning/tweaking the voice. I've made some stuff in Synthesizer V Studio and that's a big chunk of the work. Being able to load something into an AI and have it give a pass would be awesome.

Just looking at the picture this already seems like amateur work.
As for the music being ... Yes it's pretty flat and unexciting. Realistically lots of today's music is already a remix of a remix and honestly... quite generic. Bands have been cast for looks for a long time, autotune has been here for ages, and with a better effort in the voice department I don't see AI artists being far off. I don't think they will ever completely replace artists here, especially since live events really are a thing of their own but.. eh

Waiting for the AI composer site where I can prompt it for music based on a story I provide.
- Hmm. Human Music. I like it.
- We already have Taylor Swift, though?
  
  Exactly

I don't understand why people are so cynical about this, it seems like a harmless demonstration of the current state of the technology.
- If you were a professional musician your opinion might be different?
  
  Most people aren't professional musicians though.
  
  How so? It's pretty good, wait a few years and it will definitely be as good or better than human musicians. If you're talking as if it is a treat to musicians, they can only adapt and use such techs to push forward. All professions that require reasoning are endangered, not only music.

Sounds like a broken autotune.

I think everyone's being a bit unfair. I'm not saying it's remotely good but this is like the Clippy tool of of AI singing/songwriting. That, and everything is predictable...but imagine where this'll be in 10yrs!
- but imagine where this'll be in 10yrs!
  Do I have to? I feel bad enough as it is