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My kids and I are having a blast using Suno to make stupid songs. With your attitude, we wouldn't even attempt it because (1) I'm not musically inclined (2) I d

My kids and I are having a blast using Suno to make stupid songs. With your attitude, we wouldn't even attempt it because (1) I'm not musically inclined (2) I don't have the time or desire to learn the actual composition (3) the kids don't have the focus beyond having the bot write something silly.

Phiwise_ 2y ago
But why have fun with your kids when you could spread the good word of open source instead?
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Baeocystin 2y ago
My family had a great laugh this past week doing just that. Current household favorite is titled "Triple-Digit Temperatures in the Fall are Bullshit", as I'm sure many fellow bay area folks can agree with. Would we have taken the time to compose such a track otherwise? No way. But it's sure been fun playing with what we can. The end result is us laughing together, and I love it.
- SkyPuncher 2y ago
  This is exactly it. We've had a lot of silly songs. If my kids are interested, it will spark the path towards "proper" music production where they learn the necessary underlying skills. Chances are, this won't be the thing they latch onto. They have so much exposure to other things that this doesn't really need to be the hill I die on. They'll find something else to invest in.
breaker-kind 2y ago
you should buy your kids a cheap ukelele and hit your computer with a hammer
- thomashop 2y ago
  Or maybe hit the Ukulele with a hammer, record it with a computer and create an experimental noise album.
vineyardmike 2y ago
This is actually inline with the parent commentor's point - let your kids be creative and try to produce something. Don't (1) ask a machine to automate the creativity and (2) then give it to your kids to consume in a non-interactive manner.
- SkyPuncher 2y ago
  But it's not. My argument is my kids would never even attempt to do this without the machine's involvement. Making original music the "legacy" way involves days/weeks/months/years of learning. It's just not realistic to argue that they should make music from scratch.
  - vineyardmike 2y ago
    I’m not arguing they should be doing things from “scratch” (although kids have been making music from scratch for all of mankind). If you think a child needs weeks or months to have fun making music some weekend, you’re taking it too seriously. A kid can bang around in GarageBand for an hour or two and have fun making something. It doesn’t need to be good enough to monetize on Spotify, and if that’s their goal.. then years learning may actually be the reasonable approach. Kids making something, with any tool, is better than consuming something. Because making something is creative. They don’t need to know music theory to have fun making things, it doesn’t even need to be good. The AI tool should allow a kids creativity to go further, not replace it. The original post was about a parent using an LLM to write a podcast to entertain their kids, which is just another way for kids to passively consume low-quality crap. The proposed alternative was to make a “podcast” with your kid, using any tool you have available at home. The point was don’t automate the creativity and leave your kids to consume passively.

Phiwise_ 2y ago

But why have fun with your kids when you could spread the good word of open source instead?

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Baeocystin 2y ago

My family had a great laugh this past week doing just that. Current household favorite is titled "Triple-Digit Temperatures in the Fall are Bullshit", as I'm sure many fellow bay area folks can agree with. Would we have taken the time to compose such a track otherwise? No way. But it's sure been fun playing with what we can. The end result is us laughing together, and I love it.

SkyPuncher 2y ago
This is exactly it. We've had a lot of silly songs. If my kids are interested, it will spark the path towards "proper" music production where they learn the necessary underlying skills. Chances are, this won't be the thing they latch onto. They have so much exposure to other things that this doesn't really need to be the hill I die on. They'll find something else to invest in.

breaker-kind 2y ago

you should buy your kids a cheap ukelele and hit your computer with a hammer

thomashop 2y ago
Or maybe hit the Ukulele with a hammer, record it with a computer and create an experimental noise album.

vineyardmike 2y ago

This is actually inline with the parent commentor's point - let your kids be creative and try to produce something. Don't (1) ask a machine to automate the creativity and (2) then give it to your kids to consume in a non-interactive manner.

SkyPuncher 2y ago
But it's not. My argument is my kids would never even attempt to do this without the machine's involvement. Making original music the "legacy" way involves days/weeks/months/years of learning. It's just not realistic to argue that they should make music from scratch.
- vineyardmike 2y ago
  I’m not arguing they should be doing things from “scratch” (although kids have been making music from scratch for all of mankind). If you think a child needs weeks or months to have fun making music some weekend, you’re taking it too seriously. A kid can bang around in GarageBand for an hour or two and have fun making something. It doesn’t need to be good enough to monetize on Spotify, and if that’s their goal.. then years learning may actually be the reasonable approach. Kids making something, with any tool, is better than consuming something. Because making something is creative. They don’t need to know music theory to have fun making things, it doesn’t even need to be good. The AI tool should allow a kids creativity to go further, not replace it. The original post was about a parent using an LLM to write a podcast to entertain their kids, which is just another way for kids to passively consume low-quality crap. The proposed alternative was to make a “podcast” with your kid, using any tool you have available at home. The point was don’t automate the creativity and leave your kids to consume passively.