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Update: I was sure AI couldn't write a decent song lyric until a friend showed me a tool called Suno
For months, I argued that AI music generators just made weird, robotic tunes, but then my friend made a full pop track with Suno in about 10 minutes that actually had a catchy hook. The specific prompt structure he used, mentioning a genre and a mood, made a huge difference compared to my vague requests. How do you guys get the best results when asking an AI for creative stuff like that?
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taylorshah2mo ago
Honestly that catchy hook is probably just a recycled bit from some actual pop song in its data. It's like a really good copy machine, but it doesn't know why the words or melody work. The mood and genre trick just tells it which database to copy from. You could make a hundred songs and they'd all feel like a hollow version of the real thing, no matter how specific you get. It's just faking it with math.
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nguyen.lily2mo ago
My friend did the same thing to me with a country song about a lost dog. I spent weeks saying the AI stuff was garbage, then he makes something that almost made me tear up. The trick is being stupidly specific, like you're giving directions to the most literal person on earth. I guess we all have to admit the robots are getting better at faking soul. It's a weird feeling when the thing you made fun of actually works.
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ray_martinez822mo ago
Wait, a lost dog country song got you? That's the oldest trick in the book. Even a human could write that and make someone cry. The AI just found the saddest math for it.
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