First trickle of generative AI music videos

[Giggles]

Been on a funk buzz for a while, this popped up in the recommended and it's not bad at all! Vocals a bit weird sometimes, but it definitely funks.

[The Butcher]

Mad times we are livin' in - when AI Metallica is more Metallica than Metallica themselves  have to say, that intro is something straight off Justice ->

Not saying it's particularly good or anything but just shows how far this tech has progressed in a short period of time. Chap recorded his own vocals but used an AI voice model trained to sound like Hetfield from that 91 era.

[Thorn]

I refuse to acknowledge or listen to it and I will be healthier for that.

[Trev]

I'm tempted to listen out of sheer curiosity, but generally Evile's first few albums do the job for me of being a better version of Metallica than Metallica have for the last 30 years

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Why get AI to do things that directly mimic art that already exists? Here is my 0 effort homage to my favourite artist. It'd be like asking an AI to write you a novel "in the exact style of" your favourite author. If they have to use the shite, would they not do something actually creative with it!? Oh right, of course, that'd be too much actual effort.

[Carnage]

It sounds exactly like the latest Metallica album (which leads me to think that they just did this exact thing for it). Don't bother.

[Bürggermeister]

Could be an important precedent

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/1111/1543335-germany-openai/

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I've only just started watching this so can't say I endorse every perspective in it. But I trust Neely just enough to presume his take will be at least interesting and worth considering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

[John Kimble]

Had a look at some of that and it's interesting (and concerning). I'm not a musician so don't have much skin in the game, but as someone who tried and failed miserably to play an instrument, I dont feel like I need to fill that void. Dunno what that lad (the fella who created it) is banging on about, why on earth should music be more like video games? He seems to be suggesting that there's not enough music out there or that more music can only be a good thing. No, it can't. There's enough shite out there as it is. Interesting that the respondents to yer man's survey indicated that they only really listen to their own creations. Seems to be a purely narcissistic endeavour.
It's just an aside really but my eldest lad (11) is doing guitar lessons at the moment. I'd be half concerned that he has inherited my lack of musical ability as he's doing grand but it doesn't come naturally to him either. But the sense of joy is evident from him when he manages to belt out a bit of Enter Sandman or Teen Spirit. I can't see anyone getting that same sense of reward from inputting a few prompts into a program and getting a fully formed song back.

[Ollkiller]

Been on a funk buzz for a while, this popped up in the recommended and it's not bad at all! Vocals a bit weird sometimes, but it definitely funks.

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Been on a funk buzz for a while, this popped up in the recommended and it's not bad at all! Vocals a bit weird sometimes, but it definitely funks.

That is fucking hilarious.

[Eoin McLove]

Had a look at some of that and it's interesting (and concerning). I'm not a musician so don't have much skin in the game, but as someone who tried and failed miserably to play an instrument, I dont feel like I need to fill that void. Dunno what that lad (the fella who created it) is banging on about, why on earth should music be more like video games? He seems to be suggesting that there's not enough music out there or that more music can only be a good thing. No, it can't. There's enough shite out there as it is. Interesting that the respondents to yer man's survey indicated that they only really listen to their own creations. Seems to be a purely narcissistic endeavour.
It's just an aside really but my eldest lad (11) is doing guitar lessons at the moment. I'd be half concerned that he has inherited my lack of musical ability as he's doing grand but it doesn't come naturally to him either. But the sense of joy is evident from him when he manages to belt out a bit of Enter Sandman or Teen Spirit. I can't see anyone getting that same sense of reward from inputting a few prompts into a program and getting a fully formed song back.

Getting a buzz out of it and having fun is half the battle. If he keeps bashing away and enjoying it he'll get better, simple as that. It's just about putting in the hours at that stage.

[John Kimble]

Absolutely, as long as he gets something out of it, it's all good with me. He wrote his own song a few months back and his guitar teacher transcribed it to tab (apologies, I'm not exactly familiar with the terminolgy) so we printed it out and it has pride of place on his bedroom wall. That captures the spirit of the whole endeavour, to my mind. However, going back to the whole AI thing, if he just threw a few inputs into AI and came out with a fully fledged composition, it just wouldn't be the same. Obviously, not being a complete cunt of a parent i hope, I'd still tell him it's great and all!

[Bürggermeister]

There are a lot of people who think, genuinely, that if they put a line into Suno, they have written a song. I used to participate in another forum where they had a monthly composition challenge, the idea being you'd write and record a song, within a few weeks, based on an image nominated by someone. It was a musician-orientated forum, so people who played real instruments. There were occasions where AI stuff was submitted and, subsequently, a discussion on the eligibility of AI stuff with the phrase "I wrote this song with AI" used in a non-ironic way several times. It's like getting takeaway delivered and saying you made dinner.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I've only just started watching this so can't say I endorse every perspective in it. But I trust Neely just enough to presume his take will be at least interesting and worth considering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

Finished it tonight. Some really interesting stuff in it, also about how Suno, along with pretty much all other genAI platforms, are intimately tied into Muskian social reengineering projects already targeting news media, education, etc.