AI Music is Good Now - So What Do We Do?! | UDIO AI

I tried out the new Udio Music AI - we need to talk. Drop a comment with your thoughts on this.
As mentioned in this video, all the background music was made courtesy of members of the Producers Tier of the Digging The Greats Patreon for 2 recent Beat Battles. Find out more at / diggingthegreats
Thank you to the following producers for the music in this video. Credits listed in order as they were heard in the video:
“Optional” by ill.literate
“Junkyard Strut” by C_CATS ATTACK - ccatsattack.bandcamp.com
“B’s Magic Fingers” by ill.literate
“Soundtrack for that montage scene in heist films where it cuts to each person doing their special thing to lay the groundwork for the big payoff” by C_CATS ATTACK
“Untitled” by The Jackal / jakalbeats
“Untitled” by Matalo linktr.ee/Matalo
“G.E.B.” by Damion F.
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TOPICS COVERED
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#aimusic #ai #udiomusic
CHAPTERS
00:00 Welp.
05:05 What Are We Doing?
08:54 So What's Next?
11:20 What Do We Do?

[@Cyke-One]

I’m 45 years old and have been listening to hip hop since I was 13, djing since 16, and writing graffiti for even longer. I’ve never made much money for djing and probably in the red from graff but I continue to do it for the pure love of it. I don’t get out painting as much but I’m still able to drop about 4-5 pieces every summer and love every minute of it. If you have something in your life that you love to do regardless of the money consider yourself lucky and keep doing whatever it may be. That drive and passion is the one thing that AI can’t replicate. Keep it movin. Salute!

[@drewthehustler]

Facts. Exactly

[@MATALOMUSIC]

W comment

[@Dilla4life]

Indeed!!!

[@LFiers]

Very true and well said but this is about AI potentially replacing talented artists, taking away any potential monetary earnings and devaluing the craft even more than it already is. Lots of people make a living off this. This will change that for a lot of people and more cooperations will own all creative processes, make the money of us while cutting out the nodde man. This is deeper than just about hobbyists.

[@johncitizen8828]

WORD

[@TheInternetIsDeadToMe]

We’ve optimised the joy out of life.

[@nickk5948]

But think of the value for shareholders 📈📈

[@PaulBrunt]

@@nickk5948 No, musicians might be panicked, but they'll carry on anyway because they love it. Shareholders, on the other hand, are in full-on panic mode. AI creates abundance, and abundance is the enemy of profit. In 10 years' time, when models like Udio are running locally on everyone's phone, what exactly will there be for companies to sell?!

[@heavenseek]

...And Merit.... And Discovery.

[@blakasmurf]

AI was meant to do the hard stuff, so we could enjoy the creative stuff... The companies got it a$$ backwards like do my chores and let me make music FFS not the other way around!

[@lukeautosymbol2668]

And we've legislated away any possible solution.

[@cedricjoshuapayne]

"resistence is futile'. That's a fitting lyric for AI music.

[@billyalarie929]

STOP. FUCK.

[@CantTellYou]

lol the robots will never show their hand like that so he had to write that one himself

[@cedricjoshuapayne]

@@CantTellYou I figured as much. A little nod to Star Trek. Pretty dope, haha!

[@wormsali]

Humans did it first lol

[@MrHarmonicminor]

And that was the tune I directed last night, in Udio. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poiynJ5upLuKpLc. The spoken vocal literally becomes more borgish as it progresses and the lyrics get darker. Top Tip: Don't teach one AI to direct another AI.

[@NiElsir]

As an artist, having spent a lot of my life playing, learning and trying to scratch out a living with music, this is extremely depressing and demotivating to see happen so quickly and without any real control. Ouch

[@TeagueChrystie]

Or even pushback.

[@usz1444]

don't be depressed. ai music is soulless

[@lobotomyscam1051]

It's depressing for a former musician and music lover, too.

[@anthonyanderson9771]

It may make live music and musicians more in demand. AI can't make pictures, videos, or anything without it feeling surreal, like a fantasy or daydream. It's so perfect that it breaks the suspension of disbelief after a few moments. Human beings telling human stories is what's always brought people together or sold, and will always bring people together or sell. The cheap backing tracks, illustration videos, and art that doesn't take the foreground belong to AI it seems. But did those things really make us money? I don't recall anyone in any field saying it made more than a meal or two honestly. People will want more or something else for their music, and musicians will be there to provide it. Keep the love.

[@michaelsimpson9175]

@@anthonyanderson9771 *not yet. Give it a year

[@MATALOMUSIC]

Yoooo came back to say thank you so much for featuring my battle beat and during such a profound part of the video, grateful for this channel and the community you're building!

[@ramsey4630]

Use it to make loops. And clearance free samples. And go for what ya know. In fact it could be A win samples are expensive , lawsuits for everything. But sample based producers can really get off with it.

[@powderedtoastfacekillah734]

Yeah you can definitely use it to your advantage

[@MATALOMUSIC]

Ooo that's a great idea!

[@powderedtoastfacekillah734]

Metro Boomin just did this with “BBL Drizzy” He sampled and chopped an AI created song that was supposed to sound like a Motown song and released it today for people to rap over and diss Drake As soon as I heard the beat I thought of this comment

[@anemoia5549]

But won’t people just use that as a prompt rather than the process of chopping and selecting?

[@sebp400]

it's not as fun as real digging tbf, you're missing the excitment. it's too easy.

[@tristanotear3059]

There’s much wisdom in this video. It’s too bad that AI is not used solely on things that can improve people’s lives in immediate and concrete ways, as in medicine or science. It never should have been dropped on culture, where it has been used to trivialize or destroy human creativity. But it’s beside the point that some AI art is “good.” We can’t ever forget that the human imperative is that art is an interaction between the human creator and that creator’s human audience. Remembering this helps me bounce right back in, say, a situation that you illustrate here that I might actually enjoy an AI-generated song. I can say, immediately, that the song is no longer good, and that is because it violates fundamental principles of the artist/audience relationship. I create music and poetry not so much because I want it to be “good,” in which circumstance I might be tempted to adopt a machine to make my decisions. I create in order to, well, create. And this is where AI becomes such a Faustian bargain: It is the antithesis of creativity.

[@SineEyed]

_"... art is an interaction between the human creator and that creator’s human audience."_ No it's not. That's just crazy talk. There are no "fundamental principles" being violated for a relationship which doesn't exist..

[@Michaelkaydee]

Nah... people simply need to embrace change and technological progress... a story as old as time... don't think of it as a replacement but as an additional tool just as many before its time were viewed

[@browndamon]

Great, nuanced take. The career crossroads is here for everyone.

[@exloopy]

The only real defense against AI is community. Music and other arts were born in our desires to celebrate, mourn, dance, and be in awe together. To explore what it is to be human WITH other humans. AI is a logical progression for the extraction algorithm that is capitalism, where lonely rich asshats want to find the easiest way to get richer. Your passion and conviction here is inspiring. Do what you love. Yeah, pay the bills however you have to, but above all keep rockin.

[@TeagueChrystie]

🔥

[@sub-jec-tiv]

You’re speaking as if a human-created creative technology must be “defended” against. Won’t you be surprised in 8 years when there’s a golden age of incredible human music based on extremely talented human beings using AI tools to help them imagine a more unusual human domain.. then perform that music themselves. (That’s what i’m doing, and i’ve been a professional composer since the 90s.) Go ahead and downvote me. I guarantee you i’m right.

[@KaranNair123]

THIS

[@MusicFromAnotherTime]

As someone who just started taking guitar and singing lessons 6 months ago, I think I'm a tad fucked. That being said, I feel like live performances will become all that much more meaningful moving forward.

[@broghad8241]

Trying to start a rock band in 2024 was alr fucked, buddy. Rock is dead

[@jr.jamesfuller9282]

I think anything live and/or including humans will be a luxury experience!

[@anachronismic]

I mean if you're at lessons stage just focus on learning and improvement and the internal part of it! 6 months in you shouldn't be focused on making money from it imo

[@lobotomyscam1051]

Concentrate on writing good songs and don't get caught up in being the most technical player, because you will never win that battle.

[@BoogieBoogsForever]

Yeah if you get good, live guitar shows will continue...

[@Subjective_JoshNelson]

So cool you used some of the beat battle folk's material and credited them above. F**king love this, Brandon!

[@KalebPeters99]

Yess I'm so glad to get your take on this, I knew it would be sobering but nuanced. Keep it up, you're one of the best real humans on here! ❤

[@PrincePresto1]

Absolutely love your work. The details are everything. I’m an old record store owner from Little five points Atlanta Georgia and I love music in all forms and your channel has been the most favorite thing I’ve come across in the last week or so.

[@tonematrix]

Been enjoying your videos but didn't realize I'd get an inspirational pep talk to keep on keepin' on with my passion. Thank you!

[@aronannerwallelb2891]

Nice words in the end man! Keep up the good work🙌🏽

[@JamesWeaver-vk3wz]

Amazing video, Brandon. Really covered a lot of my thoughts on this AI stuff going on - I loved your takes and I hope to be as positive as you, even through these weird, changing times!

[@neuronichangfire]

Thank you for your words of encouragement. I’ve always been in awe of the minds that do what you and other artists produce. We take for granted the enjoyment of the finished product but don’t understand the depth of time and work to get there. This new technology challenges humanity to adapt, improvise, and overcome. It will be a battle. The artist that keep going will struggle, but those seeking the humanity in the art will be driven them.

[@castlewild]

Such a good and important video. Thank you DTG!

[@puvendranpillay8802]

Captcha type BEAT bruv....

[@johnplaystheguitar123]

This was an incredible video thank you. I've been messing around with Udio for the past week or so and it's amazing and scary. Your video is the best video I've seen on it so far.

[@mrdarryljones1]

It’s not just AI that’s eliminating every “middle” everywhere. Insightful to say “ machines don’t need to make art”. Crazy video! 👍🏾

[@djslip_irie]

The ai song names are dope! The one I made for my GF about her cat is called “velvet whiskers” !

[@KKAkuoku]

Nice as a novelty. Frightening as a potential replacement for creativity.

[@diggingthegreats]

💯💯💯

[@RedmotionGames]

Based on a mass robbery of copyrighted material.

[@lionizedjunkie]

I disagree. Most mainstream music lacks creativity anyway. AI won't replace the masterpieces, just the radio nonsense most of us ignore anyway. The most creative people will find ways to use AI to enhance their art, and create things we never could've imagined.

[@Kanyewestbiggestfan123]

Perfectly said

[@verygoodfreelancer]

the interesting thing about music and art is hearing experiences from another human, however artificial. when it’s entirely a computer there’s no communicating happening, just regurgitating.

[@jackietunes]

Thanks for lifting my spirit 🙏

[@ItsDeniseRenee]

As a creative (I’m a writer and a musician) I think the opportunity for us in the face of AI is to develop our audience and, to take it one step further, a community. The beauty about today is that with the tools available to us, such as Patreon or KZbin memberships, you truly don’t need millions of people purchasing your album when it drops. Just a few hundred people supporting you with a five or $10 membership every month can help you create a sustainable income based on doing what you love. The truly human skill to get good at now is building an audience.

[@flickwtchr]

How pathetic this is what millions have been reduced to by just a tiny fraction of people on the planet who develop this tech.

[@gabriel.cashez]

There's something that Ai can't take away from us, and that's the process

[@cmartin6109]

damn that was deep and so true. That baby need to birth

[@gabriel.cashez]

@@cmartin6109 Fr

[@samthesomniator]

Usually buyers don't want the process to be long. They don't enjoy it, it just raises the price. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@krusher74]

its cant take our enjoyment of making music away, but it can take that being a profession to ern a living from away from a huge percentage of people.

[@enlighten3507]

Thank you. AI can't take away the joy of playing an instrument, ai can't take away The Flow that I get from singing, or hearing a particularly awesome moment of vocal greatness.

[@DojoOfCool]

Excellent views going beyond the basic AI talk that's going on. Thanks for being human and making great videos.

[@CantTellYou]

You are so SO forgiven for using AI on the Midnight Marauders one lol That might be my favorite DTG video & I’m probably gonna replay it on a yearly basis

[@rossmar4609]

Thank you so much for this video 🙏🏿

[@kirkolsen]

I have been using AI as a collaborative tool for a while, and watching every video I can find on the subject. While the beginning of the video taught me nothing new, the last five minutes, the story of your life, and your thoughts on our relationship to AI, is the best I’ve seen. I take it to heart.

[@djse]

I recently had my first client asking me to rebuild an AI generated track (I'm doing ghost production, mostly edm), it gave me this weird feeling of being replaced, but at the same time asking myself "should I refuse the job or should I do it and take the money while I can (and kind of be ok with that) ?". Music made by people will never disapear, just like paint or photography, because people enjoy doing it, not even always for the result, but just the process. And I know I will always make music because I love doing it (even though its my job, I still doing it on the side as a hobby for my own project), but professionally, I'm not sure anymore, all the "make music for money" part will be replaced by those tool (it"s kind of already happening and the quality is not there yet; but it's not going to be worst than what it is today). Strange time to be alive, technology was supposed to replace the boring job, not the fun one :/

[@BoogieBoogsForever]

Damn.

[@pvanukoff]

Oh it will. It will replace all jobs.

[@varvarvarvarvarvar]

Mother nature doesn't care. When you're out, you're out.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

I say take the money while you can, there will be a time when you can't...

[@FireyDeath4]

The main thing you should be a tad bit concerned about is how AI has the potential to eventually become an experience machine. Everything that separates human mentality from AI can be applied to AI, and they will probably do eventually. If we make new things, those things will shortly no longer be new and special. Eventually AI will be able to generate things much more procedurally, deliberately and methodologically, and eventually it will be able to innovate all by itself, which worries people because of how you know the singularity's there once it can do that, and that signifies some loss of control for all of us even in containment :P

[@metadaat5791]

you're a legend :-) wish I could like this video more than once, especially the last part

[@lyleabrahams]

Im a producer / beat maker/ engineer / mc / painter / illustrator / designer.... I have been doing this stuff for decades.... Ive been telling those that ask what will we do moving forward... and the only answer I have is paint / illustrate live (which I do).... and perform live (which I do). I hope there is something that is done moving forward where everything that is AI related HAS to be included in the art created.... from music. painting, stories, designing, fashion, film and so on. There needs to be something in place letting all people know what has been created by humans and what has been created by machines. Do it for the love homies... and pray the outcome leans in our favor. UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME

[@oscard9429]

Commie

[@dodgerlohiss2517]

That’s a great video and quite opening. I am a big fan of the KZbin show on BPM called E.Y.L and the new theme slaps and Dr Jared Ball said that was all A.I!You are absolutely right and it could lead to greater creativity for producers who decide to stick around.Being good enough doesn’t cut it and there are a ton of techniques out there from learning music theory other than western school,old school electronic techniques,using fx in innovative ways and so on.Honestly, I am optimistic although A.I will keep being and better.Great great topic!!🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@MontyHicks]

I LOVE your passion for music.

[@nicolesherman8974]

Digging the Greats Friday… need something to watch lol 🔥🔥

[@collins_channel8643]

Great video man

[@tmbarral664]

that's the channel for me. So, so true. Brilliant job. again. ;)

[@vanessaadams3500]

Very well said...thanks for keep' n it 💯

[@vega1925]

Great stuff mang

[@SayceBuckleyFreak]

great video ! great presentation !

[@thatguysince1974]

sir...starting at 11:20...you're speaking directly to me. i needed this today. thanks.

[@PrincePresto1]

Thank you for you deep dive digging 🤘🎧🤘

[@KirtanFi]

Great video thanks man! ❤

[@joannalewis5279]

Brilliant take

[@MattnUska]

You said exactly what I have been thinking. I let my musical skills slack for several years but have been diligently working on them again. AI can regurgitate what we created in the past but it will never make something new. There will be plenty of people that will reject AI art. Those are the people that will be our audience. The mainstream has never cared about artists. We have to create for ourselves and music lovers. Not for people that passively listen to music.

[@ABoyCalledRic]

Great take!

[@saximus81]

Brilliant take on this topic mate - love it. Only way forward is to embrace our humanity. People will still want to see what other humans do. As Norwegian producer Thomas Kongshavn puts it: "People still watch people playing chess, even with the knowledge a machine could beat them in no time" - loosely translated that one, but it is the best analogy I've seen so far. Cheers mate - keep up the good work - I'm off to prompt up some ridiculous loops for my sets🤟😄

[@Nickgulley]

Keep digging!

[@justinjones2595]

Appreciate your thoughts on AI as well

[@jamesdean5095]

Thank you for this detailed take and demonstrating so clearly how we need to focus back on humans in the process. As you were breaking down the two paths forward for artists, I was thinking about what we need to do as a society. How can we advocate for and elevate human creativity and perspective. If creative industries are all about the quality of the output, then we're screwed. But if it's about the people behind the art, their stories and experiences, then we can continue to build human creativity. Also if I sign up for Patreon is there an extended, angrier, more man-yells-at-cloud version of that rant? Cause I need that in my life right now

[@ashtonsgotsauce9981]

remember when photography came around and expressionist/abstract work became the next big art movement? i feel like that a similar unintentional effect would happen with AI becoming more prominent in commercial art. unmistakably human art will become more popular. live performances? sculpting? thats me being as optimistic as possible while grounded in reality.

[@flickwtchr]

Uh, "unmistakable human art" is being questioned on a daily basis.

[@basedmerf]

I started uploading 3x pers week last January. In the past year my hobby of making beats gradually started to make up more of my income. Looks like by next year it might be back to being fully a hobby again 😬. Mad timing, however i made beats before and i made beats after. Will just need to shift gears. In some sense greatful I didn’t get to the point i had more to lose before the ai stuff reached this point. Interesting time to be alive either way. Great video as always 🧡

[@jriron1]

Another problem some people are exposing, that looks like they are no just "learning" they are stealing, voices, instrumentals..etc..

[@williamgeorge2580]

Aye. I've been saying all of this to my peers in the comic book/ nerd art fields and they've been absolutely refusing to listen. I'm glad someone in a different medium has seen what's happening and the shape of the road ahead. My departure point from you is that I'm pretty sure the tools will get good enough that no amount of levelling up will allow the "lower class" to compete for the few dollars still flowing around.

[@Darthimpakk]

As a beatmaker that finds samples, chop samples and put in the work I find this a bit disheartening. On the other hand, I can see a bunch of "producers" and "beat makers" using this and claiming it as their own. Not gonna stop MY grind.

[@oscard9429]

Sounds like it just made your job easier, I will definately be sampling my ai creations

[@At.mos.fEarProduktionz]

I don't use AI to make music...but it is fascinating. Now the industry will get flooded with not so talented producers using AI how could one verify if the beat is generated rather than actually made by a person. Everyone will be doubted.

[@JC20XX]

We'll start screen recording our DAWs or sharing project files I guess? That doesn't sound so bad. Until those get generated too I guess 🤷‍♂️

[@At.mos.fEarProduktionz]

@@JC20XX scary… weird times.

[@andrewsmith9440]

Sounds like a discussion in the teachers lounge, "how do we make sure the students aren't just copying and pasting from ChatGPT?" "Just give them a pen and paper and make them do all their work in front of you now."

[@At.mos.fEarProduktionz]

@@andrewsmith9440 that’s already happening. Kids have been called out for using AI to write reports.

[@CantTellYou]

@@JC20XX ​​⁠ lol I was gonna say, the “producer” using AI won’t have the multitrack session available to send over or edit / re-mix……. Yet, anyway..

[@postmanpogger]

Thank you, dude

[@imphetamine]

Yo don't stop won't stop u gotta keep pumping, even AI said it doesn't understand feelings and thats monumental in connecting with yo peeps!

[@lewjones3]

I believe the best way to sell music now is to up charge it a lil bit, then offer something physical, with the digital download

[@BoogieBoogsForever]

That would be wild if we get back to people buying records large scale.

[@lewjones3]

@@BoogieBoogsForever I agree...

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

​@@BoogieBoogsForeveras long as there is digital buying records large scale is gone...the vinyl record fad is just that, a fad and very niche...

[@AndrewDasilvaPLT]

I've been playing with udio for a few weeks some of the things it has made is insane.

[@TimWrightDJ]

Regarding the class system, I'm a "lower class" artist. I came out of the music industry (as a producer) about 12 years ago but, during COVID, I returned to it, built a home studio I could only dream of (I had more disposable income since getting a "real job"), and started making music for fun and for myself. I've released several tracks and unofficial remixes over the past 4 years, one of which was signed to a great house label and even released on vinyl, and financially I made less than what I spent on getting the tracks mastered. As you say in the video, I'm one of those that makes music because it's something in me, and I enjoy doing it. This AI tool, and what will likely come next, will be something I utilise to create AI generated samples that I can use to split in a stem separation tool and then create the nu disco and disco-sampled house music I make, without worrying about artists suing me. I'm not a musician (although I'm learning) and this will give me sounds and ideas I can play with. Personally, I love it.

[@BaunSai]

Love the positive spin on what otherwise could be a doom and gloom video.

[@TraxtasyMedia]

great that you dig in the topic of AI music generating tools. I recently tested Suno and gave it the prompt to "create" me certain song in a certain genre and it pulled out a song very well leaned towards what I typed into it, so far so good, but when it comes down to mixing, it just gets even worse, due to the fact that it splashes the frequency ranges together and just sounds awkward. So if you seperate the audio tracks to stems there's a big chance that a filter ruins this completely. I had a song commision done by AI and I am tasked to do a well mixdown for this person, so here's my problem: my avaliable tools can't erase the filter used in the vocals to render a clean drum mix. I mean for insparational tasks like having a solid worked out drum sample or bass guitar sample, it works awesome, everything above gets really bad. So my opinion on this: don't prompt an AI to write a hit for you, it won't, because you'll have more work decompiling and analysing this thing deeper, than any rabbit hole, that exists on net.

[@ZestyKrisps]

I think it works becuase you still mold it and see what "accidently" creates "art" the deeper meaning of art not just "music" as noise to sell.

[@YoungFlav1]

I like it, a creative person, this will make them more creative, but it's more to entertainment or being an artist than just music , aesthetics, passion, drive, stage presence, resilience, .....

[@JvariW]

The jazz rap beef with a little ‘funkiness’ here and there was perfect. An artist will take that, tweak it, and use the ‘offness’ as a feature. Jazz is perfect because as long as it’s in key and syncopated it’ll work. The artist just needs to make sure their cadence is consistent enough that the listener knows it’s intentional

[@charlieerekuff2334]

Good stuff man

[@planetmuskvlog3047]

I appreciate your video. You may be missing the boat on one essential point… I am sure I am not aline in this… I have prompted and written music using Ai that is meaningful, personal and specific to my life story, music that would never have come out like that prompted or curated by anyone other than me. How is THAT “not real music”. How can “not real music” pull tears out of me? Its real.

[@coldlyanalytical1351]

You are essentially saying that only the best-of the best can survive in the world of AI .. which means that the mediocre journeymen are doomed. I think that this applies to software developers and other domains too. That said, I doubt that we can stop all this, so major social changes lie ahead of us.

[@bladedubz1793]

i really like this video. very optimistic

[@Remember-Death]

1:56 - Not gonna lie, that "Jazzy Hip Hop" made my mouth drop wide open.

[@slipbeat]

20 hours total for just you, or 20 man-hours including your buddy Ace and some other folks (including any images or sounds you license from sites that provide that)? Are you a one man show for every component of these videos other than handmade text? If so, that's truly astonishing. I'm not trying to audit you, I just want to know how impressed to be. Thanks for the free content, been watching these from the start and I'm stoked your channel is blowing up so fast. Inspiring.

[@Guacamole1000]

tbh the AI songs sounded really low fidelity like KZbin videos uploaded in 2008 low bitrate type stuff. Not to say it isn’t still nuts that it can create whole songs out of natural language prompts, but I would never put that on even as “background” music. There’s too much other music in the world already available for free on the internet to listen to for me to want to sit down and listen to anything AI generated. Now if we’re talking AI generated crate digging ie, “Jazz song from the 1970s with soulful lyrics” and then chop that up for a royalty free foundation to a hip hop song that you produce the rest of, that could get interesting. Regardless, really cool video. What a weird time to be alive. People have been saying that forever but technology is actually mind blowing rn.

[@pierrebroccoli.9396]

Even crate diving some 70's "Loft Classics" Disco would be great for chopping up. The instrumentation and improvisation was great.👍

[@hiphopcongressnational]

Thank you for this discussion! As a grassroots network of artists around the world we appreciate your breakdown(s) always!

[@Romelle81]

It's endless boom bap and samples. I've been using it to remix different songs just for fun. Especially now with stem separation

[@ShawnWhiteMusic]

Ngl that "jazzy hip hop" @ 1:57 sounds pretty good

[@PiriakaTrackwrecker]

Have a go at it, it nails pretty much any genre you wanna throw at it, from fingerpicking folk, through to UK Garage and Dnb. It's uncanny. The odd dud, but you can always regenerate it, and odds are it will have a good crack within a few attempts.

[@Frankenmuppet]

I'm reminded of your Random Access Memories video. AI may be able to create songs, but will they ever be able to tell a story over an entire album like the Robots did over a decade ago.

[@paradogika5802]

easy i done it just use the same prompt style , or very similar and write the lyrics and you can come up with a whole album in very few days

[@krusher74]

But think of it this way the robots made one album and it was great, But AI can make a million, it's just a matter of finding that good one.

[@Kanyewestbiggestfan123]

The music industry is cooked if AI keeps advancing at this rate

[@freshestinclass763]

It's technically not even a industry..it's a cool table not even elected by real people in the first place. It's been cooked... the food getting cold... why so many vultures if the talent over there?

[@BoogieBoogsForever]

​@@freshestinclass763What does this mean? Cool table? Why are there vultures if there's talnt? Is this translated?

[@otakudesuka7376]

Have you seen this youtube video of Lupe Fiasco using Ai to assist him writting lyrics ? We are done. We are the last organic generation. But I am doing beats so if there is a Ai which could mix it well, I may try it for a minute.

[@CantTellYou]

I am curious though.. with the technology how it is at the moment, do similar prompts ever end up with very similar sounding “songs”?

[@20thingsgoing62]

@@CantTellYouyes actually and its very revealing to what it was trained on. Take an abba lyric and point your prompt in a abba direction and you hear some strangely familiar things

[@DGFR1]

Over here in TEARS laughing at Groove Surrender & Groove On the Floor!😭🤣 Needed a good laugh today. 👏🏾😆

[@cucciolo182]

Thanks to your video, I just saw the future. Pioneer + AI music LLM + the voice recognition feature (GPT-5)

[@carcolevan7102]

Your insight that AI music will be a force that increases income inequality among musicians seems spot on, yet your video is the first time I've heard that particular take on AI. You've given me something new to think about.

[@J.Whiting]

Amen to the epilogue!

[@dmug]

Social proof like live demonstrations is going to be the future for art. I’m mostly been pretty negative about the AI creative space but there is potential, say I score a nice horns section, perhaps an AI assisted sampler could spit it out rendered with much better articulation instead of just using key switches and individual horns, and I could give it a few descriptive words to assist the tonality “late 1960s, tape, saturated, soul”. Also, the biggest hit so far from this service is “I glued my balls to my butt hole” so there’s that…

[@the-engneer]

Yes!!! I glued my balls to my butt hole made me realize how a catchy song can be made very simply

[@andrewsmith9440]

Most shows just have a computer or something playing a backing track anyway. Look at Taylor Swift whose midi controlled piano started playing itself early before she was sitting in front of it pretending to play the song. It's already all smoke and mirrors with live performances of music

[@the-engneer]

@@andrewsmith9440 depends on who you go see live

[@anthonyanderson9771]

Hey Dmug, I hope you're good! Live has always been the way to make money anyway. Live is the human experience across genres and artforms. You can't escape the real world in real time.

[@pierrebroccoli.9396]

@@the-engneer I remember walking in on a White Stripes set at a large festival, timed unbeknownst near the beginning and I had not heard them before, an hour later after the set was done, I walked out with great appreciation. Just like I did with Basement Jax and their set later in the evening. The vocalist Jazz Scatting over their DJing was great as were the rest of the musicians they had performing with them. There is live and then there is Live. I'm all for digital instruments in the process but not when tech is used to cover up one's lack of ability as a performer.

[@odencore]

Great video. Everything was well said. I hope that the positive of all this is that artists lean more into niche sounds and techniques to really stand out from the generic flood that's coming

[@diggingthegreats]

That’s why I’m hopeful - humans pushing their own boundaries to make something that’s never been made, on a level we’ve never seen 🔥

[@odencore]

@@diggingthegreats adversity into innovation🙌

[@flickwtchr]

@@diggingthegreats And then AI will just replicate that as well. That's where this is all headed. I loathe the AI revolution.

[@zaph1rax]

There are bound to be some musical equivalents to six fingers, hands, extra limbs, and impossible positures, etc. That's part of the charm of working with AI; you can work around these problems with experience.

[@davido3109]

Thanks thanks thanks for this channel and for the video... No joke , very interesting conversation on ai... One year ago I was making illustration with ai... It was nice experience... Namaste Asewe Haribol!!!

[@davido3109]

That beat was like Timbo beat? Wow... Kali Yuga Terminator is here???

[@algorithmicillness]

I feel like AI is just a tool, one that needs to be used creatively and responsibly, and like any tool can be used or exploited for profit. I used to draw a lot, but later moved onto Photoshop and web design, is digital art any less art? Real drummers used to look down on people who made music on a drum machine, but now I feel like they are both seen as valid instruments. There was a time when a record player could never be viewed as an instrument, and I feel like AI is this right now. We just need to figure out how to use it creatively and responsibly. I had some fun playing around with udio after watching your video. I'm amazed at times this site can seem like magic, while at the same time my Google speaker can't figure out how to turn my lights on half the time. I made a bunch of Beastie Boys covers that turned out so well that I decided to upload them to KZbin. I prefer human made music, but this was fun.

[@Remember-Death]

@ 1:37 - I definitely sense a bit of A Tribe Called Quest/Q-Tip production.

[@prettypoet08]

Great video

[@iancpowell]

We were talking about mechanically generated music in 2001, and that I think at least on writing instrumental has been sort of a thing since the 30’s if I remember right. Electronic music history class in college. This current wave of stuff even goes back to the failed Microsoft song writer thing from about a decade ago, and Digitech’s trio pedal. It’s all a lot of gray area, and using things as tools to inspire the creation of human generated art should always win out over using a tool and not having it be transformative in a way that only a person who is thinking can do. Algorithms can only spit back what it understands we might want

[@vas8203]

The neo soul rough on was actually crazy trippy in a good way lol

[@gezblair]

One of the reasons I listen to music is it gives me a type of emotional connection to another human, that I will probably never meet, or could even be dead. AI, no matter how good it gets at mimicking (because that’s what it is doing, not creating) will never provide that connection.

[@Dan-zw5po]

At some point you won't be able to tell the difference between AI and human made music. What you might perceive as an emotional connection to the artist might just be an emotional connection to some software.

[@mach489i]

@@Dan-zw5po what is worng with you people. You have absolutely no fight. Your comment is basically, just roll over and surrender your humanity to the billionaire execs, that own this dogshit tech

[@flickwtchr]

What if you have no idea whether it was generated by a human or AI? Without regulation, it will get so good there is no way we will be able to tell the difference in most circumstances listening to "new music".

[@pastense]

One way I can see AI can help creatives is with the notorious writer’s block. Perhaps messing around with AI could help spark an idea. As great as AI can get, I highly doubt it’ll ever match human ingenuity. A tool is a tool. And using it wisely and effectively is key.

[@paulhiggins5165]

As a visual artist it's interesting to me that the thumbnail images that Udio generates for it's tracks all seem to have a similar aesthetic, no matter what genre of music they are 'inspired' by. And this same aesthetic can be seen in all the AI Art galleries found online. This suggests that while AI may be capable of virtually infinite iteration within it's limitations it does not seem able to transcend those limitations and create genuinely novel and unique things. We keep being told that 'AI is just a tool'- well ok- let's go with that and from it draw an interesting conclusion- any tool will leave it's imprint and influence on the things it is used to make, which means that things made by AI must inevitably share a common aspect as a result of being products of the same tool. That being so it seems inevitable that as we are exposed to more and more AI generated material our 'ear' will develop to the point where AI art or music will become an identifiable sub genre in it's own right- recognizable by anyone with a degree of familiarity with the genre in question. So the 'problem' of AI for creatives may solve itself via the sheer volume of AI generated material we are likely to be exposed to in the near future. And once AI generated material can be readily identified it will cease to be seen as a viable replacement for human creativity and come to be viewed as a legitimate subgenre of creative expression to judged on it's own merits.

[@leronharrison1110]

Would love to see you collaborate with your friend in the LA Phil and draw on your days playing classical bass while bringing your bass playing and beat making together.

[@dcraigcorbett]

Your concluding remarks evolved from presenting sage music advice into expressing a positive approach to life in general.

[@mammoo93]

This makes me appreciate records that much more. This AI music generator is going to be great for finding copyright free samples. Made to order, really.

[@TheRealNativeSun]

This is how BBL Drizzy was made. 😂. I kept seeing content creators make stuff like “Sexy Redd 70s version” now it makes sense. The secret is out. Thank you brother!