Udio, an AI song generator website

oh no wait, it made "Invalid request" and "I'm sorry, I cannot generate prompts with inappropriate language" the titles of the tracks lmao...it still let me do it

"shoegaze latin cumbia in spanish about transport" ... sounds pretty good.

https://www.udio.com/songs/fTa5MqeghAWo988DyUtEU4

Kinda sounds like Cerati

Enjoy this track by Red House Sausagemakers: https://www.udio.com/songs/cPXiUuVs1Q1aZ17EfYaEDm

https://www.udio.com/songs/7YC2BN8sSYtNd8ek7AWbxU

"Chicago house with diva vocals singing about vampire fellatio"

it fails on every part of that

okay this one is arguably about oral sex at least
https://www.udio.com/songs/7YC2BN8sSYtNd8ek7AWbxU

'a slow jam appropriate for my great-grandfather's funeral'

https://www.udio.com/songs/9T7qGkn6XjDyDdZcP7iKe3

Not sexy enough, sounds like an '80s sitcom theme

minimal electronic music suitable for inclusion on a Warp Records sampler from 1992

credit for the AI seeing 1992 and including some 14.4 modem sounds

https://www.udio.com/songs/ooQjqmTZJZ9Xp5dAVaCvd9

it seems to pick up more on official genre tags than modifiers. if you type a genre it'll give you pre-filled styles and separate them by commas, but when you type something like "80s cartoon featuring horns" it'll maybe pick up on teh horn part only.

it actually did pick up on merging jazz and metalcore a wee bit here

https://www.udio.com/songs/jucfCbm28zB7CuiHz1jbUb

trying to merge gangsta rap and death metal now

ok I don't think u know what death metal is: https://www.udio.com/songs/epkYfBPP9ys877hvM37iqC

used the same rap voice, the drums are at least pingy, but the riffs very much not DM: https://www.udio.com/songs/s8s2FjbGrLhCGiG9xCR5Xq

let's see if it'll mix gangsta rap and 70s progressive rock

actually this kinda works lmao: https://www.udio.com/songs/jQzALhAMqxeMbGbMQ47ver

soul song about being constipated: https://www.udio.com/songs/2kcJaApKEh4ZeAED9dZRdh

the diarrhea song to grindcore:

https://www.udio.com/songs/3KdDK1tubATe5EHQ4Ho2nn

joy division song about dating apps
https://www.udio.com/songs/hjVLnKwZ41BSL257byYVFR

Motown version of the skibidi toilet song

https://www.udio.com/songs/uTEPiTCCGb69YhRozG47Pw

Yes, this needed to exist.

https://www.udio.com/songs/hFtsYrU8RckreScNN28Y9o

a music lawyer friend of mine informs me that this site is "illegal", just noting that here, I asked for more details

ah here:

"Trained on copyrighted materials without permission, attribution, or payment."

there's also this

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/

So, like every other AI?

meh, paywalled....

try this - https://web.archive.org/web/20240416155532/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/

(it doesn't seem like the legality of being trained on copyrighted material is actual settled law yet, but will be soon)

I’m sure they’ll win the battle against a technology they don’t quite understand this time.

the tech is pretty simple aiui (although resource-intensive), it's a plagiarism machine that scrapes the internet for data

Sure that’s how ai works but given a large pool of data that spits out things that faintly resemble something but it’s something new how can you argue plagiarism?

AI is analyzing thousands of songs from every genre and learning what are the main aesthetics of each one. If AI takes 1000 country songs from different artists to learn about it and do something that doesn’t sound exactly like the source should those 1000 country artists get a paycut?

according to the lawyers I know, the answer is "yes"

also I don't think it's "something new" by any remote stretch of the imagination, more like a very clever mashup

I figure most human songwriters have learned their craft through studying copyrighted material

not the same, come the fuck on

gotta unbookmark this, y'all are fucking credulous

this is something to play around with for a few days
it's not going to replace music
who gives a fuck about its legality

I think not this specifically, but something technically comparable could replace sampling similar to how Dr. Dre re-recorded samples (apparently to avoid paying more for them -- though don't you still have to pay for covering sample-length snippets?)

Thought the unspoken rule of the thread was that this is stupid and evil and probably illegal, but let's have a laugh with it anyway.

Yeah at this point is more of a novelty tbh, the legal aspect of it should be studied for when it inevitably gets improved but I suppose the better it gets the harder it will be to actually trace what the source is.

I don’t think it will change real music considerably. It will likely be used as a tool for inspiration or as samples and will be a battle uphill.

There are a lot of venues where the people paying kind of don't want "real" music, but rather Muzak (supermarkets, waiting rooms, soundtracks, etc...) and to the extent that this continues the shrinking of music-related side gigs, maybe Jimmy Fallon replacing The Roots with a laptop will mark the turning point, though I guess the question is who loses their job first, Questlove or Jimmy?

who wrote about the relation between scarcity and pleasure? Like, once these things can churn out 100 insanely good albums by (favorite artist of your choice), will that just fuck everything up like explaining a joke?

What it will do (depending on how it is monetized) is completely decimate the library music business, before long.

i mean, everyone is going to think it's no big deal until it comes for their particular gig

Probably wasn't a good idea for most of the music industry to pump out stuff that already sounds like it was made by A.I.

That’s a dick response

thanks

Thought the unspoken rule of the thread was that this is stupid and evil and probably illegal, but let's have a laugh with it anyway.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

yeah i'm kinda surprised that there's any debate about this, tbh, the art spaces i come with it's been established in detail why ai art trained on copyrighted art is bad and should be illegal. someone can probably link to a video or an essay or something explaining it in depth, i don't know one offhand.

Well I hope this one will make everyone happy

https://www.udio.com/songs/eNuQmiCLyYBUMkPqdKgJiQ

I agree those are the worst lawyers

Once you extend the tunes they're often not so great with endings but it managed a decent one here, a prog punk song about spaceflight.

https://www.udio.com/songs/noXyZzdDUYkGHkfd1gTTus

yeah i'm kinda surprised that there's any debate about this, tbh, the art spaces i come with it's been established in detail why ai art trained on copyrighted art is bad and should be illegal. someone can probably link to a video or an essay or something explaining it in depth, i don't know one offhand.

Two key issues: this is meaningless without a definition of “AI” and, if you define “AI” as “supervised learning,” artists like and have been using supervised learning methods (likely unaware) for more than a decade. Lawyers are the least serious people about this issue.

P much done with this shit, deleted everything I did and created one final recording, a six minute Broadway musical based on utter gibberish I fed it

https://www.udio.com/songs/qyKFUkDLAvdSDSDL3KT3Fz

Sorry, I just used all my credits for today making an early 2000s dance pop version of Throbbing Gristle's 'Hamburger Lady"

made a blues song where some asshole in the audience keeps interrupting and asking questions about details in the lyrics

https://www.udio.com/songs/7gkuMX53JkniHUnj9p8QAx

lmao okay that one is funny