Udio

It produces decent audio, but something unpleasant about its high frequencies. And no voices, it doesn't seem to talk or sing. Udio, so far, is undefeated. And ElevenLabs' music demos were very very impressive, but it's still not released.

I think that you need to be explained the situation slowly with simple words? How are composers and musicians supposed to make a living if our clients choose an AI tool that can deliver okay-ish music in a few seconds at a fraction of the costs? How can we devote more time to our craft if the craft stops paying the bills? Especially when this AI tool has been trained on copyrighted data? There are examples and proofs surfacing at the moment that the Beatles catalog or Edith Piaf for example were used for the training. Udio is deleting these tracks as fast as they can but it's already in the hands of lawyers. It seems that the battle for human-made art is not completely lost just yet

After playing with this for a while, there are two things I have to say. First, this is amazingly good. I did not expect us to be this far wrt generated music so quickly. If this pace holds, I fully expect some Udio-generated tracks to become a significant part of my daily tracklist in not so distant future. Second, I do have several fictitious bands on https://chirper.ai, complete with fake albums and track lists and, in some cases, lyrics. I'm actually trying to plug some of that into Udio with variously hilarious results (the bands include stuff like fundamentalist Islamic black metal and reggaeton deathcore, so this is very much as intended). But it occurred to me that it would actually be pretty neat to be able to set up a virtual band like that and basically let them have a go at it, composing whole new albums etc + some kind of feedback channel where you can give feedback about what they produce, e.g. in form of YouTube-like comments on the tracks. The idea is basically to produce coherent output that is consistent with the artist persona as defined, going beyond musical genres alone. Even better if this all could be fully integrated with Chirper and similar services - so that such bots can post about new releases and get themes for their songs from interactions on other platforms etc.

As a tool, it could be useful as a starting point (a way to get your creativity going), but the sound is completely wrong. Early Udio generated songs when run through a stem splitter were horrible to listen to and you could hear how it was just generating the frequencies with none of the texture—like a simulation of the frequencies an instrument would produce. At the very least they should be re-recorded with real instruments and vocals or using the existing digital tools. Slop is one word; I like to use mush, as that is what it sounds like when you really listen closely.