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Re:MusicLM: Generating music from text by CuriouslyC on Friday January 27, 2023 @10:43AM (#34547279)
Let's be clear, this is a tech demo, the application is not going to be prompting infinite streams of low quality music. The application of this stuff is to enable creative tools (got a beat and some vocals, give me a bassline and backing chorus), real time computer jam partners, to provide "good enough" music for indie games/movies.

These models are still in their early phases - If AI was combustion engines, we wouldn't even be to railroads yet. Despite that, they're still fun to play with and useful when used correctly.

Re:MusicLM: Generating music from text by tomdell on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:42PM (#34552852)
There are tons of relatively cheap music libraries with human-composed and human-produced music that is vastly higher quality than MusicLM's output - they are used for documentaries/commercials/low-budget projects and are loaded with metadata that make it easy for directors and editors to quickly find what they are looking for. Low-quality, weird-sounding AI-generated music with wonky rhythms, an inconsistent beat, bizarre digital artifacts and a generally unpleasant lo-fi sound that probably has to be patiently generated and listened to over and over again to find a usable result is highly unlikely to beat out already very cheap, much higher-quality and easily searchable human-written music for even the lowest budget projects.