Have You Tried Making an AI Song Yet?
Because the site everyone's talking about just became easy enough for anyone to use, and the results are—honestly?—shockingly catchy/funny/terrible/good.
I’ve played with this AI music generator once before when it was only available on Discord and found it pretty mind-blowing then.
It’s like an alien was forced to listen to nothing but commercial radio for 20 years straight (remember when Manuel Noriega was tortured with heavy metal years ago?), given heavy psychedelics, clinically supervised shock therapy, just a splash of light water torture and then had a gun put to its head and told: “IMITATE IT!”
And now?
It’s even better than that. So, cool.
Not only that—now it’s got a Spotify-style popularity interface, you can generate several-minute long opuses—with lyrics—and the results are sometimes so eerily uncanny-shitty-radio-valley it’s enough to make you wonder what the hell the artistic landscape is going to look like even a few years from now.
This is the part where I say: I view the technology with the same transformative inevitability that I do the Internet, electricity and the wheel and therefore I engage very little in “pro” and “anti” discussions. To me, AI simply is.
Maybe that’s the healthiest, sanity-preserving way to consider it at all.
But consider it tonight I did, making a parody of “Rich Men North of Richmond,” a K-Pop song from the view point of Donald Trump’s legal troubles and a Christmas song about a K-mart parking lot fight between Jesus and Santa over a discount tin of popcorn. Want to hear these soon-to-be-Grammy-winners? Want to play around with it yourself? Read on!