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by itchyjunk 438 days ago
You will be able to detect any AI music from human music because of the ability to detect this human element? Or are you saying you'll retroactively hate a song once you figure out it was AI generated?
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Can't speak for the person, who brought topic up, but I can't detect AI music from any human music. That's to say music rules aren't that hard, you can learn a basic structure, a few popular scales and a write a completely soulless peace yourself. Google "Minor Scale", choose any note as a starter, and here you go. You can even add any popular drum pattern. Soulless music written by humans is dime a dozen. It's out there, people just choose to listen to a better music. Scratch human written, there are algorithms based on music theory that could generate light music endlessly.

But the completely original peaces, written by professionals, aiming to express a feeling, are easily distinguishable from any AI song. AI songs doesn't leave you hanging or waiting, it doesn't know the value of breaking a pattern.

It's Mozart vs Salieri all over again.

I think the point is more like, MusicAI might give you a progression from a Bob Dylan song, but it can't give you a Bob Dylan song and it will be easy to discern between the two.
> Or are you saying you'll retroactively hate a song once you figure out it was AI generated?

Can't speak for OP, but for me personally, I don't mind AI augmented content, as long as it's done well. Eg. I recently played a game called "Slay the Princess", where they very clearly used Claude to write a lot of the dialogue/narration, but that didn't detract from the experience.

On the other hand, I hate it when I open a youtube video and the script is 100% chatgpt slop.

Music -- a lot of it is already made using software. If I enjoy listening to it, I don't care how it was made.

What about you?