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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3309 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025

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It's decent, not amazing and none of those would pass muster for me as a Chopin fan unfortunately, not least the second to last one which somehow has English vocals (Chopin did actually write a small amount of songs with words but they were all in Polish and not published during his lifetime)...

Still I guess if you showed these to somebody back in 2015 they'd still be rightfully amazed. Still significant work to be done, at least in replicating Chopin properly.

I'm starting to get Gell-Mann Amnesia with Suno, it does really badly according to my ears for the genres where I sort of know what "good music" is supposed to sound like and it does really well according to my ears for the genres where I don't know much about them beyond vaguely knowing what they should sound like.

Also WTF is that last generation?

That last generation was the sort of thing that it used to produce more often circa V3.

Some weird distortion that spins off into eldritch horror territory as it compounds.

Which emphasizes my point that it has advanced a lot over just the last 6 months.

I really would like to try a double blind experiment on this forum to see who can still spot the AI songs.

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