Ever since the launch of DALL-E last year, AI art and writing have caused an uproar.
To be honest, nobody knows what's real anymore or whether what they're reading or watching was made by a human, and it's all pretty confusing.
Well, culture is only about to get more bizarre and mindboggling, because a bunch of poindexters at Google have worked out a way to make AI-generated music.
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The new AI system, called MusicLM, is able to generate entire songs based off a user-written text description. Judging from an academic paper published last week, MusicLM is able to create weird, bad tunes from almost any genre just based off of a few words.
You can listen to some of the admittedly rubbish tunes created by MusicLM here. It includes classics such as "funky piece with strong, danceable beat", or that absolute hit track, "a choir, singing a Gregorian chant, and a drum machine, creating a rhythmic beat."
Engineers at Google said: "Our experiments show that MusicLM outperforms previous systems both in audio quality and adherence to the text description."
AI has already made astonishing gains in terms of generating realistic photos, videos, and artworks. If Googles musicmaking algorithm is anywhere as near as good, it could be time for creatives to start worrying.
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If you're sick of paying for your kids' piano lessons, just cancel them completely. The iPad will take care of their music taste.
There's no telling what impact this could have on the music industry, concerts, festivals, or indeed nightclubs.
In future, could DJs just be replaced with an AI jukebox that randomly generates songs based on the text inputs of drunk users? If so, we'll take "'an upbeat dance track about 'the Reebok and the Nike '" for one, please.
Personally, I preferred a time when things like music and art and film were the product of genuine human creativity, emotion and self-expression. But a gigantic AI-powered machine capable of spewing out infinite mindless content for us to doomscroll forever seems like a reasonable alternative.
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