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by ehnto 1398 days ago
Music can be algorithmically generated since it's formulaic, what I think machine learning models will struggle with at first is maintaining those formulas throughout a song. I imagine AI produced songs will/do sound winding and unhinged at first. All the right ingredients but stewed up in a pot.
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Like Dall-E. What you'll get is music which apes music tropes really well, but strangely intentionless and disassociated. For genres like ambient where the intention is to be intentionless and disassociated (or can be), the result is like 'oh hey, AI is here!'.

It's weird. You could extrude endless amounts of The Caretaker, "Everywhere At The End Of Time" if you specified the recipe, with a 'deterioration dial' and some coding to determine how you vary the output. But you'd be free-riding on a pre-existing artistic intention that was originally implemented in dramatic, bold manner. To extrude endless amounts of this stuff is both fairly trivial and missing the point completely…