"Now, at the computer, I prompted the AI to create a folk-rock protest song, 1960s vibe ... male vocals with earnest tone. The generation took seconds. With my headphones on, I listened, imagining myself in a cafe as the song came on the sound system. Though knowing it was AI-generated made me look for signs of artificiality, I doubted I could have distinguished it from a human-made song."
"I thought of a song that meant something to meBuffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth. I'd first heard the tune when I was 17 years old, sitting in my stepfather's kitchen in rural Virginia as he sang and strummed a guitar he'd made by hand. Released 30 years earlier, in December 1966, the song was a response to the Sunset Strip curfew riotscounterculture-era clashes between police and young people in Los Angeles."
A person used Suno to generate a 1960s-style folk-rock protest song with male, earnest vocals; the generation took seconds. The listener compared the AI output to lasting memories of Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth,' recalling learning chords from a stepfather's handmade guitar and the song's 1966 roots in Sunset Strip curfew riots. Listening with headphones evoked a cafe setting and doubts about distinguishing AI from human-made music, though the AI song did not provoke strong repeat-listening desire. A preprint study sampled thousands of Suno-generated tracks from a Reddit board and found participants correctly identified AI 53 percent of the time, near guessing.
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