Suno AI Music: Is It the Future of Sound?
- It's like Xania Monet or Solomon Ray or Cain Walker's "Don't Tread on Me" - and Cain Walker's not a person.
- I think that AI tends to work best when it just leans into that authenticity because it kind of helps overcome the cognitive dissonance that we're thinking,This isn't...
- Do you think when your experiment is done, you're going to keep making AI music?
According to the French music streaming service Deezer, ther are about 50,000 fully AI-generated songs uploaded to its platform every day. Many of these songs won’t reach a wide audience, but over the past year, a few have gained millions of listens.
Which raises the question: If our future is going to be filled with this kind of AI music, what does that future sound like?
Deni Béchard is the senior science writer at Scientific American. For the better part of a month, Béchard has only allowed himself to listen to his own AI-generated music using the AI music app suno. He says the experiment is an attempt to think more critically about how we might engage with this kind of music in the future.
Béchard spoke with today, Explained host Noel King spoke about what he’s learned so far and how his AI creations stack up to human-made music. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
There’s much more in the full podcast – including snippets of Béchard’s songs – so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get your podcasts, including