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Google releases GenAI tools for music creation

Google has released and updated its tools for music creation and lyrics generation. The tools are available in AI Test Kitchen, its app for experimental AI projects.

Maybe it’s the getting to me, but one of the prompts I went with was “a house music song with funky beats that’s danceable and uplifting, with summer rooftop vibes.” MusicFX delivered, the tracks weren’t bad — but I can’t say that they come close to any of the better DJ sets I’ve heard recently. Google warns that TextFX “may display inaccurate info, including about people,” and I indeed managed to prompt it to suggest that climate change “is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government to hurt American businesses.” Yikes. Google’s attempting to forge a careful path toward deploying GenAI music tools on the YouTube side of its business, which is testing AI models created by DeepMind in partnership with artists like Alec Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend and Sia, T-Pain.

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