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Rolling Stone Music Now

Hear the Startling AI Creations of Suno, the ChatGPT for Music

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A ChatGPT for music has arrived — and its abilities are uncanny and controversial. We go inside the company, play some wild creations, debate what this means for artists, and much more, with co-founder Mikey Shulman joining host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone music down. This week Rolling Stone published a story I wrote in a song along with it.

0:08.0

It went pretty viral and we're going to be exploring more of that story here today.

0:12.0

So just last year, I did a bunch of stories

0:14.2

about AI music and the experts I spoke to agreed on one thing because recorded

0:18.8

music and high fidelity audio is so complex they all said it would be years until a tool arrived that

0:24.8

could generate finished songs, vocals and all, from a simple type description.

0:29.2

And to be clear, things like that fake Drake Weekend song from last year weren't anything like that.

0:33.9

That song was entirely written and produced and sung by a human with AI voice morphing

0:38.8

added at the end.

0:40.0

But Generative AI is moving at astonishing speed.

0:43.2

And this year I became aware of a service named Suno that's succeeded in making a chat

0:48.1

gb-t-tte or mid-journy for music.

0:50.6

The latest model, V3, which just became available to the general public, is capable of some

0:55.3

truly astonishing and unnerving results. a bold gente and blea.

1:04.0

I'm just a soul trapped in a tree.

1:07.0

I'm just a soul trapped in this circuit tree.

1:15.0

Oh, my heart used to be,

1:20.0

but now it's cold and we all the pain inside me

1:30.1

The song we included with the story we published was called Sol of the Machine and it was generated entirely, including the title from the prompt

1:37.3

solo acoustic Mississippi Delta Blues about a sad AI.

1:40.8

And it's technically a collaboration between two AI models because Suno calls out to actual

1:46.2

chat gee B. T to write lyrics unless you paste in your own.

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