I make music now!!!!!

[Stealthy]

I know some people love AI. I know someone people hate AI. I'm a software developer, so I'm one of the people who actually likes it. I'm not interested in automating people's work away, I'm interested in discovering solutions to problems that a human perhaps has never thought of, or gaining capability I simply didn't have before.

For example, AI has discovered strategies in chess, go, and starcraft 2 that humans have never thought of.

Anyway I'm using AI to make music. I have no actual musical skills to speak of, I'm a tonedeaf singer even. But I do understand the emotions involved with music. So I'm using AI as sort of a prosthetic to express myself.

95% of the songs are funny, but its my humor, some of it may a little zany for your tastes and might even go over other peoples' heads.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBo4 ... cOFz8XtqTo

Here's a playlist of the songs I've made. The newest is at the top. I try to do something a bit different with each song. "One Land a People" isnt meant to be funny so you might want to skip that one.

Let me know what you think!

[Roobar]

Good for ya, if you enjoy it for personal use, but don't give too much credit for yourself. AI is using other people's work without their permission to generate music.

[dark]

What kind of prompts are you using? Short ones? Long detailed ones? Just curious.

[Stealthy]

Good for ya, if you enjoy it for personal use, but don't give too much credit for yourself. AI is using other people's work without their permission to generate music.

Not quite. You know how 90% of people who make drawings view lots and lots of works of art and use that to inform their own work? It's a little like that. AI is a neural network, so it is learning how to do different tasks based on the humans we've seen before. This is also similar to how babies learn to talk. While AI can memorize things in the same way that humans can, typically generative AI is imitating, not copying.

Humans are actually more blatant imitators than AI. For example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NO6KW9oLlX0

What AI lacks is true novelty. For example, if I ask it to make songs out of skunk farts, it struggles because no one has ever done that before. But if you think about it, unless you have a skunk on you, most anyone would struggle unless they were an expert.

AI also doesn't have the ability to be deterministically correct. It misses the forest for the trees.

The end result is that many of these songs take me 20-30 iterations to make, sometimes in increments in order to create the effect that I want. I can't ever get it exactly the way I want, so I have to choose my battles and compensate accordingly.

What kind of prompts are you using? Short ones? Long detailed ones? Just curious.

For songs I make my prompts as long as possible, to try to cover as much ground as I can. AI's idea of humor is often overly simplistic, and it will rarely go as far as I want it to which means I have to manipulate it. Most AIs are inherently lazy. They are designed to support as many users as possible with as little hardware usage as possible, so unless I give specific details the generation will usually take the easy way out.

I use custom lyrics for more complex songs. If I want the song to be catchy I usually have to design the refrain by hand at the very least, because the AI will screw that up. More recently I've been breaking songs up into tiny sections so I can go beyond the limits of an individual prompt. Usually I design the lyrics first, and then play with the music instruments and genres until I find something that really fits what the song wants to be. This sometimes leads to rather strange genres, like my werewolf song that attempts to oscillate between rock/screamo/bubblegum throughout the song. That one took all day to make.

For videos (the shorts on the account are all funny things I made with AI) I try to make prompts as short as possible. That is because the video AI has a pretty good idea of how things *should* work in order for the videos to make sense, but it doesn't really understand those videos, so it is way more likely to misinterpret my prompts. So my video prompts have to have exactly what I want as concisely as possible, or it'll become nonsense.