Warner Music Group Partners With Suno To Offer AI Likenesses of Its Artists
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/25/2240236/warner-music-group-partners-with-suno-to-offer-ai-likenesses-of-its-artists
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"Along with the licensing agreement, Suno is planning to use licensed music from WMG to build next-gen music generation models that it claims will surpass its flagship v5 model," adds The Verge. "It will also start requiring users to have a paid account to download songs starting next year, with each tier providing a specific number of downloads each month."
Further reading: [4]First 'AI Music Creator' Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry?
[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/warner-music-group-and-suno-forge-groundbreaking-partnership-302626017.html
[2] https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/01/1525210/ai-startup-suno-says-music-industry-suit-aims-to-stifle-competition
[4] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/0136236/first-ai-music-creator-signed-by-record-label-more-ahead-or-just-a-copyright-quandry
2025 is the year. (Score:2)
The year that "art" became devalued to the point where its name is synonymous with any passing fancy or fantasy that pleases you. The squealing of brakes? I'm sure somebody considers that to be art. Similarly, fan-prompted AI-manufactured "music" - in the "style" of someone whose name appears on the list of credits for a "song" - will now be called "art".
For too long now a lot of what passes for an artist's music is in fact the work of a committee. In such a committee, said artist may play a very small part
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It's funny how people pushing this angle aren't hunting bison for blood and collecting plants to make their own paints.
Apparently some level of automation and outsourcing is fine, but they are the judges of how much is allowed before it becomes bad. Everyone else is wrong.
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> It's funny how people pushing this angle aren't hunting bison for blood and collecting plants to make their own paints.
Look Ma it's a dumbfuck! You completely miss the point. Unlike when paint started to be mass produced you still needed skill and creativity to come up with something remotely reasonable. To create music now you don't need skill, you don't need talent, you need to put in the absolute bare minimum. Literally type into Suno "Make me a song about going out for a drive in my car in the style of Bryan Adams" and it'll competely create a song and lyrics from scratch. Shit you can even get AI to make the video too.
So right ... (Score:2)
I predicted this would happen less than 36 hours ago on these very forums. *fistpump* (Old guys take whatever wins they can.)
Algorithms feed algorithms and everyone is dumb (Score:2)
At this point, Spotify essentially is the music market. Nothing else really matters. Thus, almost all commercial music is made to suit the Spotify algorithms, and a shit ton of corruption, especially with listening bots, games the system and fucks over actual musicians. I've played with Suno, and it produces what is clearly AI-style music, absolutely averaged and awful, nothing I'd choose to listen to. It's great for a gag. "Make a country song about two bunnies named Bill and Bob who love to box and d
Who would dare opt in? (Score:2)
Who would opt in to this? No matter how well the company tries to police this, there will be AI generated slop of artists singing terrible lyrics that they would never do in real life. Does is matter that the company can issue take down request after the fact when your new hit single "Adolf's Solution" featuring your likeness adorned with a silly mustache has already gone viral? Maybe that's on the nose enough for an LLM to shut down, but there are plenty of other terrible things that can be made with this
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Suno's previous iterations are behind multiple top sellers on Spotify already. And basically all artists except a handful of irrelevant hipster ones use AI assist at this point. It removes almost all of the menial parts of work.
At this point, it's like masturbation. There are two kinds of artists. Those who use AI assist, and those who lie about it. And then there's that tiny group of religious weirdos standing on the corner screaming that you're going to hell for doing it. Ok boomer.
The only difference at
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What shit do you listen to?
I just saw Knower live. I don't see any AI there, just virtuoso artists having fun.
Who would contest the training data clean room? (Score:2)
Ideas:
1) Create a training data set which excludes all Elvis Presley music and then ask the AI to generate songs in the style of Elvis as proof nothing was taken from Elvis.
2) Use the same data set as #1 but describe the song using a prompt which does not mention Elvis at all yet describes a style similar to his.