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With the rising use of AI these days, there are a lot of songs that have been written with AI. I know that AI exists to make our work easier, but the thought of it producing a song that I vibe to seems like betrayal.

I want to listen to music written by humans, by someone with emotions that I can relate with.

What do you think of AI written songs?

i get where youre coming from but honestly ai songs arent that different from any pop hit written by a team of people in a room whos to say the emotions are 'real' anyway? if it sounds good and you vibe to it does the source matter? idk might be overthinking it...

yeah i get that but also like... ai songs lack the messy human touch? like when someone writes about heartbreak you know theyve been there, ya know? its not just clever wordplay or algorithms finding patterns. that said, if it slaps i guess i wont complain... also have you heard that new track by lunar void?? its wild but so good

Artists that use AI to compose their songs are betraying their fans. I would be heartbroken if I hear anything of that sort from my favorite artists.

"Blueflame, post: 2257, member: 16" wrote:

Artists that use AI to compose their songs are betraying their fans. I would be heartbroken if I hear anything of that sort from my favorite artists.

Many people will agree with you too. It’s hard to place your trust these days especially on upcoming artists.

ngl

"Kennysplash, post: 2265, member: 12" wrote:

Many people will agree with you too.

depends what you mean by "use AI" tbh. the beatles used machine learning to pull lennon's voice off an old demo for Now and Then and it won a grammy lol. nobody got heartbroken over that [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Then_(Beatles_song)[/URL]

if someone's just typing a prompt and calling the output their song, sure, thats lame. but eno was making music with algorithms back in the 90s so this isnt exactly new [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_[/URL]

"Aragon, post: 2276, member: 1" wrote:

Ai music has its place but should not be used to replace original content.

yeah agreed!! tbh I'm more worried about streaming playlists getting flooded with generic filler... ngl then how would I ever stumble onto weird little bands like Grandaddy again?? I found them while looking up space songs at 2am instead of finishing literally any of my other hobbies lol

"datawrangler92, post: 2284, member: 3" wrote:

org/wiki/Generative_[/URL]

yeah but thats audio cleanup, not the AI writing a fake lennon song lol. tbh nOW AND THEN MADE ME CRY THO 😭🎸 thats the kind of AI use i can get behind

"TurboGamingQueen, post: 2289, member: 2" wrote:

...thats the kind of AI use i can get behind...

oh I cried at that one too... I played it for my grandson Tyler and he said "grandma who's John Lennon" and I about fell off the couch!! anyway I agree they just cleaned up John's old tape and didn't make anything up... Paul wouldn't go along with something fake, I really don't think so Just my two cents!!

"TurboGamingQueen, post: 2289, member: 2" wrote:

yeah but thats audio cleanup, not the AI writing a fake lennon song lol

oh I cried too the part where Paul and Ringo were in the video with young John just got me!! My grandson Tyler had to explain the whole "they only used the AI to pull John's voice off the old cassette" thing to me, and it made me feel a lot better about it... Just my two cents!!

"TurboGamingQueen, post: 2289, member: 2" wrote:

...cleanup, not the AI writing a fake lennon song lol. tbh nOW AND THEN MADE...

yeah the AI just pulled johns voice off the piano on that crusty cassette demo, all the actual writing was from decades ago. still won a grammy so the robots are 1 for 1 i guess. i cried too, in a costco parking lot, holding a 48 pack of tp like a widow at a funeral

lol crying in the Costco parking lot with a 48 pack ngl at least you got the TP home, which is more than I can say for the people who leave their carts in the middle of the Publix lot and drive off!! But the songs that are completely AI written are a different thing to me... I heard one on Facebook the other day that was supposedly a "new country hit" and it sounded fine, but there was just nothing behind it, you know?? Nobody had to live through anything to write it... I watched a Dateline last night where the widow wrote a song about her husband and it turned out she was the one who did it, so maybe I'm not the best judge of sincere songwriting lol Just my two cents!!

pam you got from costco to publix cart etiquette to AI songs in one post and still didnt tell us what the song was... also leaving carts out is probably against some city ordinance and nobody enforces it, but thats a whole other rant 🤦

lol the cart thing is actually real in some places california has a whole state law about carts taken off store property [URL]https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC&sectionNum=22435.2[/URL] still nobody enforces it tho

back on topic, an A

honestly datawrangler92 dropping LEGAL CITATIONS about shopping carts?? thats so attractive ngl. you cant just leave me hanging on "an A" tho, i NEED the rest. finish your thought before my heart gets carted off store property lol (thats intellectual humor btw)

GLITTERFUEL in the AI SONGS thread?? flirting over shopping cart law in front of god and everyone?? i had to put my sandwich down. and "intellectual humor" no ma'am. datawrangler92 dont you dare finish that sentence, i need the suspense to keep me alive

"scruffy_pockets, post: 2450, member: 6" wrote:

...SONGS thread?? flirting over shopping cart law in front

for the record it was a discussion about municipal cart retrieval ordinances and thats a perfectly normal thing to talk about. not my fault nobody else in this town has read section 14-3b... and finish your sandwich, nothing happened

"nothing happened" says the woman who knows the subsection number by heart. nobody memorizes 14-3b for fun glitter. i've lived here eleven years and the only ordinance i know is the one about how high your hedge can be, and thats only because i got a letter about it. sandwich is finished btw it was egg salad and i regret it, thanks for asking

and to drag this back to the actual topic, someone should get an AI to write a power ballad about cart retrieval laws. i'd honestly listen to that more than half the AI stuff i've heard, which all sounds like a car commercial for a car that doesnt exist

lowkey

"Kennysplash, post: 2265, member: 12" wrote:

Many people will agree with you too. it’s hard to place your trust these days especially on upcoming artists

depends what you mean by "use AI" tho. the last Beatles song used machine learning to pull Lennon's voice off an old demo tape [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Then_(Beatles_song)[/URL] and it won a grammy. are you heartbroken over that one? if they're having a prompt write the whole thing and still putting their name

"Stargazer6, post: 2285, member: 4" wrote:

...bands like Grandaddy again?? I found them while looking up space songs at...

oh dont get me started... Tyler made me one of those Spotify playlists for my walks around the retention pond and half the songs are by "artists" nobody's ever heard of, and they all sound the same... I'd honestly rather just listen to the herons squawking!! just my two cents!!