[nabla9]

I predict that in very near future you just write funny lyrics, select the style and vocalist you want and you get good sounding mediocre music.

Then we hear it in

- private events like weddings.

- social media creators make their own music to go with their funny videos. Cheap theme music for streamers and podcasters.

- Advertising. Shopping centres make lyrics that advertise products and play them to you as pop songs. Some bubs make their own songs.

[squarefoot]

The future will be AI lawyers battling for rights of AI generated music in the style of deceased artists on behalf of AI media corporations at the expense of robotic listeners.

Before all of this, we'll probably see improvised bands of deceased artists playing together AI generated music in their own style, not to mention long dead actors appearing in new movies etc. AI technology is going to give law firms a lot of work in the future.

[joeframbach]

And that robot artist will be named "Weird AI".

[ipsin]

I'm thinking of characters like Captain Jack Sparrow (partially inspired by Keith Richards) or Zuse from Tron: Legacy (partially inspired by David Bowie).

When it's less "inspired by" and more literally "0.5 David Bowie", I also imagine a lot of law firms writing letters.

[TeMPOraL]

This subthread made me immediately think of:

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a human face booting on a stamp forever."

(From the last story at https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/10/17/the-moral-of-the-story...)

[squarefoot]

One of the many many examples of why the 2006 Idiocracy docu^h^h^hmovie would well deserve a sequel. Probably even two, considering how much material we produced since then.

[corysama]

With http://songsmith.ms/ from Microsoft Research you just sing whatever and it tries to fit cheesy, casio-keyboard music to your mumbles to make it sound like you planned it. Of course, the real fun is taking vocals from popular songs and making casio-keyboard covers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTN-ixHQ2hM

[caetris1]

This is truly great on so many levels. The cheesy sarcastic late night infomercial demo is artistry. Thanks for sharing this.

[brogrammer2018]

> I predict that in very near future you just write funny lyrics, select the style and vocalist you want

You probably don't even need to write the lyrics yourself, but just select any topic you want, genre and mood then entire song generated, for example lyrics generated using Artificial Intelligence

E.g. https://TheseLyricsDoNotExist.com

[akmiller]

Definitely a market for this. There are so many events that like to use music as background noise but due to licensing restrictions in music you have to be careful what you use.

[pippy]

If the tools are good enough, there would be communities of people making better music than the original artists.

It would put record companies in an interesting position.

[__s]

On Advertising: targetted advertising can go a lot of places with this. Even in shopping centres you can target their demographic