[jablongo]

I've got to come to the OPs defense as well. This was a remarkable demonstration of Claude performing a task thats probably very out of distribution. This would not be interesting if it were a music generation model or program, it's interesting because this is not what Claude code was explicitly trained for. The fact that it generated waveforms from scratch and built up from there is really amazing. Your cynicism was applied before even reading the article.

[kranner]

How is it out of distribution? There are plenty of Python libraries for sound and music generation; it would be surprising if they were not in the training set.

There's a general pattern becoming evident of people being surprised with AI capabilities because they didn't realise (and none of us do fully) how broad the training set is, the variety of human output AI companies were able to harvest.

Even if all AI does is remix and regurgitate, there's a segment of the audience that is going to find some particular output brilliantly creative and totally original.

[jablongo]

This is still a surprising composition of low level in-distribution things then. Like I would not have expected it to generate the waveforms from scratch, and be able to piece them together so well. If it had just plugged some kind of notation into a pre-existing API in its code then I would probably agree with you.

[prodigycorp]

This sounds like keygen midi music, which wouldn't necessarily be out of distribution.