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Instrumental music can absolutely offend!

It can challenge the old standards, it can push genres into new places.

AI music can’t. It’s too safe.






If you think it's too safe you haven't tried. This took me 5 minutes with almost no thought just to make the point.

https://suno.com/s/5bXmu47Iv1o0xR9U

https://suno.com/s/4pWqmP1zP97LsK8k

https://suno.com/s/ETXPsm6eYwMoiphR


Maybe some specific implementations are “too safe,” but I don’t believe that there’s any combination of notes that an AI couldn’t generate, in theory.

In theory no, but so far most of these things are severely overfit to 2010s-era pop music. They are best described as muzak generators

> Instrumental music can absolutely offend!

The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky) has entered the chat!

And if that's not offensive enough, Music in Similar Motion by Glass, or Metal Machine Music by Pat Metheny or any of Glenn Branca's "guitar symphonies" will likely do the job for most people.


Also Peaches in Regalia by Zappa.

Or anything 4/4 in some areas at a certain time.


Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance for Silence




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