For the first time, Alice Yalcin Efe is scared of AI as a music producer.

A professional music producer, been number one on BeatPort, has millions of streams on Spotify, played in big festivals and clubs, "yet for the first time I am scared of AI as a music producer."

When you're homeless, you can listen to AI mix the beat on the beach.

After that, she ponders what this means for all the rest of us. Those of us who aren't professional music producers. Well, I guess we can all be music producers now.

"Music on demand becomes literal. You feel heartbroken, type it in. Type in the genres that you want. Type in the lyrics that you want. Type in the mood that you want and then AI spits out the perfect ballad for you to listen."

"I think it's both incredible and horrifying at the same time. I honestly don't know what comes next. Will this kill the artists' soul, or will it give us just more tools to make even greater things?"

For the first time, I'm scared of AI as a music producer - Alice Yalcin Efe - Mercurial Tones Academy

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Musician Paul Folia freaks out over Suno and Udio (and other music AI). Reminds me of the freak-out of visual artists a year ago. It appears AI is going to replace humans one occupation at a time and people will freak out when it's their turn. He estimates in a year AI music will be of high enough quality to wipe out stock music writing completely, producing tracks for a price no human can compete with ($0.02 and in minutes).

He experiments with various music styles an artists' styles and the part that impressed me the most was, perhaps surprisingly, the baroque music. After noting that the training data was probably easy to get because it's public domain, he says, "This m-f-er learned some serious harmony. Not like three chords and some singing."

Suno, Udio (and other music AI). We're f*ed and it's really bad. Seriously. - Folia Soundstudio

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"Sonauto: Create hit songs with AI". Another AI music generator. I listened to Blue Scooby Doo ft. AI Beatles and Thanks Hacker News, done in the style of a country song. Pretty impressive. Give a listen. Check out the "Top of Week" and "Top of All Time" categories. I haven't had time to actually try creating a song, but if you do, let me know how it goes.

Sonauto: Create hit songs with AI

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Udio generates AI-generated music. I went through the staff picks. I was impressed that it rendered "acoustic" music well with lyrics -- and the singing seemed actually good and the lyrics made sense. Does genres like jazz & country.

They don't say anything about how the system works. They say the program is free during the beta program.

Udio | Make your music

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