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Here's Udio, a new AI music generator that has emerged as a competitor to Suno. There's less of the audio "artifacting" that exists in a lot of AI music tools, and it can actually do some pretty decent generation from keywords. It's early days and there are limitations and still identifiable signs of AI-ness, but it's quite a large step forward from the previous iterations.
The emergence of all these musical AIs as of late has been quite validating, especially since I've had a good amount of arguments with art people I know about the ability of AI to create music - as someone who makes music as a hobbyist I've come at it from the perspective of "these are all just patterns and systems of rules, and can be imitated easily by an agent familiar enough with those rules". In similar fashion to those who predicted that visual art would be difficult to achieve via AI, those who were predicting that this ability was not generalisable to music were wrong.
To some extent, it's understandable - it must be a pretty big blow to one's ego for the art one prides themselves on to be so easily recreated and automated by the equivalent of a Chinese Room, especially when the field is still in its infancy and hasn't even come close to anything we would consider agentic - but I can't help but see many of the naysayers about the ability of AI to achieve supposedly uniquely "human" tasks as being clearly myopic and wrong.
I don't blame the artists for being so prissy and pissed off about AI taking their lunch. It'll come for me too, I pride myself on being able to write, and Claude Opus is close. Scarily so.
But it'll also come for my actual job too, and sooner than I'd like. After all, I write for fun and public validation. But I do need to eat too.
Sadly, their approach is wrong, not that I blame them. Most artists are already quite commoditized, and even the ones with an established niche won't have it uncontested much longer. What we should all prepare for is actual UBI, even a minimal one because motherfucker, I don't care how many PhDs you've got, it's coming for you too. And if you've got that many, you're probably partially responsible for it to boot. But in the meantime, I chuckle, but do feel bad for them, I too was surprised that AI demolished the creative arts first, and recently I saw some rather creative mental gymnastics on Twitter about the limitations of current AI, which can be best summed up as "See, humans are still better than LLMs at cold, inhuman logic".
We're in for a rough decade. May it end well nonetheless.
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