AI Review 8
Generative AI making Beats and songs
Udio vs Suno AI
AI music generator Suno equally wowed and scared music producers with its recent update. Many of the songs it generates from simple text prompts almost rival commercial productions in quality. Now, there is a challenger: Udio! Just as it happened with Suno, however, Udio almost immediately faced criticism and backlash for supposed copyright infringement. That is, not for reproducing songs, but using music from artists for its training data without asking for permission or financially compensating said artists. Are we at the Napster moment of AI music?
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Udio only launched a couple of days ago. Many users were excited by the quality and variety of its output. Some examples were close to or even surpassed results from Suno, the other AI music generator that has been (literally) making waves. But for Udio, potential copyright issues almost immediately popped up.
where is the future going ?
The countless reactions to the song range from fascination to skepticism, leading to intense conversations in discussion forums and social media. Every week, this phenomenon raises more and more critical questions about the role of AI in future music production. Should artists rely on such technologies to develop and perfect their music?
Is the musician of the future a talented “prompter” who can’t play any instruments – a prompt DJ? For now, all of these tools seem to be able to only generate fully fleshed-out songs – which is good if you just want that. However, for any professional, there would need to be much more control over the outcome, which is a similar issue to AI graphics.
For instance, you can’t “tell” Udio or Suno to replace one of the instruments in a song, a specific bpm, or key, let alone the instrumentation or the arrangement. And while both Udio and Suno seem to take the road of “move fast and break things,” it remains to be seen how labels, publishers, and, first and foremost, artists with copywritten works will react to these developments.
