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I'm a musician, and have been for 25+ years. In fact, I made a living of music before eventually getting my education and working in tech. I've played around w

I'm a musician, and have been for 25+ years. In fact, I made a living of music before eventually getting my education and working in tech. I've played around with Suno for a couple of months. It works for some things, but to me - it just doesn't give any sense of...accomplishment? I'd much rather sit down with my instruments, and come up with the stuff myself. What is more, I get no feel of ownership. It is not me that's making music, I'm just feeding it prompts. That's it. It's like paying some painter 5 bucks, and telling them what to paint. In the end, you'll have your painting, but you didn't paint it. With that said, these tools have their uses. Generating jingles and muzak is easier than ever.

cainxinth 1y ago
> It's like paying some painter 5 bucks, and telling them what to paint. In the end, you'll have your painting, but you didn't paint it. That didn’t stop Andy Warhol from becoming a famous artist.
- iamsaitam 1y ago
  Refuting an analogy only proves that the analogy doesn't fit perfectly.
  - whilenot-dev 1y ago
    Doesn't even refute it... Warhols fame came from claiming any absurdities of capitalism and the art market as his working material. He was a "Business artist".
aeon_ai 1y ago
If you're just using prompts it's almost always just scratching the surface when it comes to creative AI use. With Suno, using your audio uploads to effectively 'filter' your ideas into something usable, compositing in the DAW, and putting a full song together -- that's going to be a much different experience than "make me a song"
onion2k 1y ago
It is not me that's making music.. AI is a shortcut from an idea to something that resembles your idea in solid form. If your goal is to create something and get a sense of accomplishment from that creative act then AI will never work for you because the artistic process is exactly what the AI shortcut is short-cutting around. On the other hand, that AI shortcut is circumventing decades of practice, so if you're at the start and you just want the output so you can use it in some way it's awesome.

cainxinth 1y ago

> It's like paying some painter 5 bucks, and telling them what to paint. In the end, you'll have your painting, but you didn't paint it. That didn’t stop Andy Warhol from becoming a famous artist.

iamsaitam 1y ago
Refuting an analogy only proves that the analogy doesn't fit perfectly.
- whilenot-dev 1y ago
  Doesn't even refute it... Warhols fame came from claiming any absurdities of capitalism and the art market as his working material. He was a "Business artist".

aeon_ai 1y ago

If you're just using prompts it's almost always just scratching the surface when it comes to creative AI use. With Suno, using your audio uploads to effectively 'filter' your ideas into something usable, compositing in the DAW, and putting a full song together -- that's going to be a much different experience than "make me a song"

onion2k 1y ago

It is not me that's making music.. AI is a shortcut from an idea to something that resembles your idea in solid form. If your goal is to create something and get a sense of accomplishment from that creative act then AI will never work for you because the artistic process is exactly what the AI shortcut is short-cutting around. On the other hand, that AI shortcut is circumventing decades of practice, so if you're at the start and you just want the output so you can use it in some way it's awesome.