Udio, an AI song generator website

There are a lot of venues where the people paying kind of don't want "real" music, but rather Muzak (supermarkets, waiting rooms, soundtracks, etc...) and to the extent that this continues the shrinking of music-related side gigs, maybe Jimmy Fallon replacing The Roots with a laptop will mark the turning point, though I guess the question is who loses their job first, Questlove or Jimmy?

who wrote about the relation between scarcity and pleasure? Like, once these things can churn out 100 insanely good albums by (favorite artist of your choice), will that just fuck everything up like explaining a joke?

What it will do (depending on how it is monetized) is completely decimate the library music business, before long.

i mean, everyone is going to think it's no big deal until it comes for their particular gig

Probably wasn't a good idea for most of the music industry to pump out stuff that already sounds like it was made by A.I.

That’s a dick response

thanks

Thought the unspoken rule of the thread was that this is stupid and evil and probably illegal, but let's have a laugh with it anyway.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

yeah i'm kinda surprised that there's any debate about this, tbh, the art spaces i come with it's been established in detail why ai art trained on copyrighted art is bad and should be illegal. someone can probably link to a video or an essay or something explaining it in depth, i don't know one offhand.

Well I hope this one will make everyone happy

https://www.udio.com/songs/eNuQmiCLyYBUMkPqdKgJiQ

I agree those are the worst lawyers

Once you extend the tunes they're often not so great with endings but it managed a decent one here, a prog punk song about spaceflight.

https://www.udio.com/songs/noXyZzdDUYkGHkfd1gTTus

yeah i'm kinda surprised that there's any debate about this, tbh, the art spaces i come with it's been established in detail why ai art trained on copyrighted art is bad and should be illegal. someone can probably link to a video or an essay or something explaining it in depth, i don't know one offhand.

Two key issues: this is meaningless without a definition of “AI” and, if you define “AI” as “supervised learning,” artists like and have been using supervised learning methods (likely unaware) for more than a decade. Lawyers are the least serious people about this issue.

P much done with this shit, deleted everything I did and created one final recording, a six minute Broadway musical based on utter gibberish I fed it

https://www.udio.com/songs/qyKFUkDLAvdSDSDL3KT3Fz

Holy shit

Put this in the ILX best of 2024 poll, I want to see the reactions to people coming across it blind

This is one of the worst things I've heard in my life jesus https://www.udio.com/songs/2LKznbCzDFYBSmCtzqPRDG

On the other hand this one turned out pretty well. https://www.udio.com/songs/9aewPs85B1SompcaU3Njb9

My general view of this is that it's a fun gimmick, and scarily "realistic", but typing an idea of what you want to hear into a prompt box and it coming out the other end will never match the thrill of hearing exactly what you want to hear being done by a band and knowing other people exist in the world who are thinking in the same way as you

completely. that's why I did the experiment of writing that garbage, because I knew it'd never be able to make coherent music with it and it's attempt to create it would be funny. but having it put together actual songs, the results got very disappointing over time. especially the 'heavy metal' voices used which are always terrible

the thrill of hearing exactly what you want to hear being done by a band

I sent my lyrics and style suggestions to Dave Matthews and I'm still fucking waiting.

An old friend (whose taste in music I do not share, to be fair) has made a full ai-generated song with music video and it's genuinely one of the worst things I've ever heard.

the friend's name was....

...Jedward

I want to share it but you all have to promise not to write mean comments.

Steven Wilson did that lmao

Does anyone know if there is an AI tool that specializes in creating instrumental parts for existing music? Like something that could generate a horn section based on a piece of music uploaded? You'd think that would be easy based on all of the other stupid horseshit we can do. Can't we have something practical?

can somebody please make a version of the family guy theme song in the style of '73 pink floyd, like along the lines or "breathe"?

Sorry, I just used all my credits for today making an early 2000s dance pop version of Throbbing Gristle's 'Hamburger Lady"

made a blues song where some asshole in the audience keeps interrupting and asking questions about details in the lyrics

https://www.udio.com/songs/7gkuMX53JkniHUnj9p8QAx

lmao okay that one is funny

This is freaky. Does it sound SO much like GBV with these prompts, because there are just so many GBV songs to scrape from?
https://www.udio.com/songs/pxtsMWZNVEfG5hSpDQbAaA

Gettin' sued

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/24/suno-lawsuit-udio-sony-warner-umg-copyright/

Well this is shit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/18/artificial-intelligence-song-immigrants-germany-top-50

The FBI arrests a North Carolina musician for streaming fraud, accusing him of collecting $10 million from hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songshttps://t.co/bW0q04g1d6

— Stereogum (@stereogum) September 5, 2024

Probably didn’t use Udio but it seemed an appropriate thread

just read a different article on this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/fbi-busts-musicians-elaborate-ai-powered-10m-streaming-royalty-heist

I wonder if the random mostly non-musical tracks that would sometimes show up on my Discover Weekly years ago were from this guy or somebody else running a similar scheme, because I am assuming that with this many streams those tracks sometimes showed up on algorithmically generated playlists.

If the scam is ripping off Spotify and other streaming services, I gotta say I’m with this guy.

Yes, this seems like a victimless crime.

It's leeching on legit musicians:

'Spotify invests heavily in detecting, preventing, and removing the royalty impact of artificial streaming. Still, bad actors continue to attempt to steal money from the royalty pool that should be delivered to honest, hardworking artists.'

https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-system

What about lazy musicians?

Well, now that this arch criminal has been apprehended I expect my Spotify, et al. payments to increase. I will report back.

*puts on little snob bib* on some level, the victim is Art

Garfunkel

Our first Doom/Sludge/Psychedelic AI art-prank band has surfaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1aAAFd7bvA

People have been assimilating existing music styles to produce 'new' music since the year dot.

I listened to a fair bit (in pieces) that commentary. It's way too long. (It would be awesome if that was actually you mares slagging off your own creation, but hey)

Never once (or did it?) approach the actual music result. Was it any good? Oh, I take it there was no actual LP produced?

There's tons of AI generated jazz music, it tends to be used as bed music for YouTube clips, hold music, etc. it's not a new concept, it's Muzak.

Ok?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPp_uzqpB-g

Whispers of the Wippen Tree.

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