suno produces 7m "professional" songs per day. Can't think of a better example of a slop generator. Many songs that will never get more than a handful of listens if it all.
True of human-made things as well. Most video essays don't get more than a dozen views, most gameplay streams similarly. People playing their guitar and uploading, same. SoundCloud, YouTube, twitch. Human-made app store apps is the same story. Most are not downloaded by even 100 people. Most Github repos don't even get a handful of stars.
I've made songs on Suno that I actually like and have listened to tons of times, not to mention just having fun in general making music, seeing what comes out of the box.
The future is going to be different.
Right now, people effectively spend ~0% of their time entertaining themselves with their own music, art, writing, film, etc.
> Right now, people effectively spend ~0% of their time entertaining themselves with their own music, art, writing, film, etc.
First, the 0% figure is not true. People do write stories, play instruments or draw pictures.
Second, everybody who really feels a desire to express themselves creatively has akready been able to do so. Nothing was stopping you from writing poems, drawing pictures or picking up an instrument. Recording music has never been so easy. The "problem" is, of course, that it takes some effort. LLMs seem to provide a convenient shortcut, but you effectively skip the whole artistic process.
IMO it's better to either engage with existing great art or make an honest and humble attempt at creating your own art. You will learn so much more about music by trying to learn the piano or guitar than by prompting Suno.
You've claimed that "right now, people effectively spend ~0% of their time entertaining themselves with their own music, art, writing, film, etc."
So I assumed that you don't spend your time with traditional creative pastimes or don't know any people who do. Otherwise I don't understand how you would come up with the ~0% figure.
> You seem to imply that you can't have created any art ever in your life if you ever did anything with AI.
I did not say that you can't use any AI tools in the creative process, but anyone who has ever tried to create their own art will not confuse the verbatim output of AI models like Suno or Midjourney with actual art.
> The human touch is not automatically genius,
I never claimed that. The nice thing is that there is so much existing art/music out there that you can easily choose the things you like.
I understand that prompting Suno can be a fun pastime for some people, just don't confuse it with actual music or art.
> Sorry, I've seen just as much thoughtless garbage from humans as from AI...
Yes, there is lots of thoughtless garbage music made by humans, but all AI generated music is thoughtless by definition. AI models do not have thoughts or intentions, they are developed to mimick human thought and intent.
> and the AI touch is not automatically derivative trash...
Generating whole songs with Suno very much is. These models are designed to be derivative. AI tools can be used effectively and responsibly in the creative process, but only as a tool among other tools. Prompting Suno is not a replacement for actual music making or production.
> I did not say that you can't use any AI tools in the creative process, but anyone who has ever tried to create their own art will not confuse the verbatim output of AI models like Suno or Midjourney with actual art.
LOL - so let me guess, 99% of people never create anything resembling art?
AI regularly spits out better derivative crap than 99% of the derivative crap humans spit out...