Google Makes Its Text-To-Music AI Public (techcrunch.com) 16
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google [on Wednesday] released MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music. Available in the AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android or iOS, MusicLM lets users type in a prompt like "soulful jazz for a dinner party" or "create an industrial techno sound that is hypnotic" and have the tool create several versions of the song. Users can specify instruments like "electronic" or "classical," as well as the "vibe, mood, or emotion" they're aiming for, as they refine their MusicLM-generated creations.
When Google previewed MusicLM in an academic paper in January, it said that it had "no immediate plans" to release it. The coauthors of the paper noted the many ethical challenges posed by a system like MusicLM, including a tendency to incorporate copyrighted material from training data into the generated songs. But in the intervening months, Google says it's been working with musicians and hosting workshops to "see how [the] technology can empower the creative process." One of the outcomes? The version of MusicLM in AI Test Kitchen won't generate music with specific artists or vocals. Make of that what you will. It seems unlikely, in any case, that the broader challenges around generative music will be easily remedied. You can sign up to try MusicLM here.
When Google previewed MusicLM in an academic paper in January, it said that it had "no immediate plans" to release it. The coauthors of the paper noted the many ethical challenges posed by a system like MusicLM, including a tendency to incorporate copyrighted material from training data into the generated songs. But in the intervening months, Google says it's been working with musicians and hosting workshops to "see how [the] technology can empower the creative process." One of the outcomes? The version of MusicLM in AI Test Kitchen won't generate music with specific artists or vocals. Make of that what you will. It seems unlikely, in any case, that the broader challenges around generative music will be easily remedied. You can sign up to try MusicLM here.
Aweful (Score:3)
Those examples must be cherry-picked and they are terrible. I get Google is trying to shovel everything AI that they have out now as they are panicking over OpenAI but I can't imagine this method doing much good for their image. Maybe should have just left it for a paper.
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Text to musicI is so simple problem that some trainee probably did it. Google doesn't tell much about their real project of developing AGI.
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helping less skilled musicians (Score:1)
I see these tools as helpful to a lot of people who aren't musicially inclined. Another tool people could use is something like autotune but it corrects poor rhythm (does this exist already?). The AI could go through and clean up a song. Or maybe upload a sample, like a guitar lick, and the AI creates a song.
Not quite. it's like wizards boilerplate code (Score:2)
Not necessarily less skilled musician. Think of it of Boiler plate code generated by Wizards. Sure, it will generate something that compiles but it needs more work
it's the same with the AI Music I have seen so far, sure they generate something that works but to make it more exciting you need a lot more work
IE, a lot about writing music is taking basic building blocks like chord progressions and making it your own. For example a lot of songs are 4 chord that repeat with a variation where composers/producers
The first economic victims I see... (Score:4, Interesting)
Creators of trance / EDM / whatever style repetitive background music for games are going to hurt. It ain't glorious work, but there are a lot of people working to create music for low-to-mid budget games (you know, the ones that don't cost as much to make as a summer blockbuster movie and never get awards... but everyone plays).
Those people must be really worried about having to find a whole new career in a year or two, never mind just a new job. They just got replaced by a fancy script that works for pennies an hour.
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For some people, this kind of music might more or less replace all other kinds of music. If you're the kind of person who listens to music continually, this is a way for you to hear more stuff that you like that you haven't heard before. It's also going to be huge in hold music, and video background music. Right now you hear the same not-very-good-but-freely-usable music in the background of video after video, soon you will hear different not-very-good-but-AI-generated music instead. And rather than hold mu
Can it do fictional music styles? (Score:1)
Klingon opera?
Music in the style of a plutonium rock band [fandom.com]?
Other fictional music genres?
Freddie was right (Score:2)
"There will be a time when technology becomes so advanced that we'll rely on it to make music rather than raw talent...and music will lose its soul." - Freddie Mercury.
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Haha. Freddie was an optimist. It turns out that there is already an adequate supply of "artists" who have no soul and make similarly worthless garbage music.
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When you're struggling to find a bar that will LET you play for a night, and Woolworth's is looking to pay someone decently for a few hours of elevator music variations of pop music... I bet it doesn't take long to decide that soul needs to go into storage for a bit.
Needs a small new feature (Score:3)
In a video editor, you could mark locations that need impact or where you want to fade and/or change the theme and then use text to music to do the music that takes these locations into account. Instead of editing videos to match the music, AI would match the music to your video.
Hollow (Score:2)
Music, to real musicians and fans, is about presenting and experiencing human expression. I see the appeal and convenience for some usecases but any purely AI generated music will always be hollow in my mind.
my first site (Score:1)