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by otabdeveloper4 29 days ago
AI music != electronic music.

Most AI music is actually country-pop ballads and indie folk.

Making electronic music with AI is hard and it isn't very good at it.
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blehn 29 days ago
YouTube is already recommending tons of AI-generated electronic music. It's pretty easy to spot: It will have millions of views and the "artist's" discography will only go back to 2025 or 2026. It's usually just singles. The cover art is vague atmospheric AI-generated. The "artist" will have no presence online save for a couple instagram account with a couple posts that are also AI-generated.
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otabdeveloper4 29 days ago
I'm not saying it doesn't exist at all, I'm saying electronic music is significantly harder for AI to do than a conventional love ballad or a rock song.

AI can't do "robotic" math music, it's best at sappy generic emotive stuff. (I guess this isn't at all a surprise for those that know how the musical sausage is made.)

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blehn 29 days ago
> electronic music is significantly harder for AI to do than a conventional love ballad or a rock song

Why do you say that? I'd argue the opposite

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otabdeveloper4 29 days ago
Look at the majority of AI music and see for yourself.

AI does common-denominator stuff best, and common-denominator is heartfealt lyrics over some pentatonic chords. (Not Kraftwerk or whatever.)

This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnfixpA9Cs is a quintessential AI song.

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platevoltage 29 days ago
I'd love to see AI take a stab at a Meshuggah or Dillinger Escape Plan clone.
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ozzmotik 29 days ago
not exactly what you're aiming at with your comment but, sort of adjacent, maybe relevant:

https://suno.com/s/o0CtwRfvFXxxTDE7

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HDBaseT 29 days ago
I occasionally listen to Drum n Bass & House music on YouTube. Just a few years ago a number of compilations, artists and playlists were made with the tagging of "PS2 Ambiance" or "PS2 D&B to Relax to", etc.

Most of these were either:

1. Legitimate music from the PS2 era games. 2. Music which could of easily been included in the games of the era.

I constantly see "PS2 Jungle Mix" and its AI, or entirely by one guy (which I assume is AI?).

This type of music is my background music whilst playing a game, or just chilling because it has no lyrics to be distracted by. It doesn't really matter all that much if its AI or not, but I still find myself filtering by uploads from a few years ago to avoid the slop.

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