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This might be onto something!

Just listen to this from 30s: https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/pop-rock-in-the-6355437/...

Such coherent and pleasing melodic phrases in the style of Avril Lavigne. I thought it could be copying wholesale from a song unknown to me. Nope. Shazam doesn't get it.

This can revolutionize song writing/composition/production and soon music listening/consumption.

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Wow, that's a good one. Yeah, I'm actually blown away by so many of these, there are a ton of completely impressive original melodies, harmonies and phrases—especially with the vocal lines—that go beyond a predictable 4/4 verse chorus. The comments on this thread are so ridiculous, they're completely missing how insane this research is. You could take half of these and write new original music based on them and it'd be incredibly solid. As it is, I'm really tempted to just gank some of these for myself.

Note that the lyrics are part of the input to the Jukebox neural net, so I assume they used the lyrics of an existing song here. Nothing stops someone from using a lyric-generating neural net with Jukebox though. (It's probably more useful that the lyrics aren't produced by Jukebox because it means you can easily swap out the lyric-generation part or manually tweak the lyrics.)

The lyrics are generated by a separate model, but they're "co-written" (cherry-picked) by the authors.

Only one category of the samples on the main Jukebox page are described that way. The rest of the samples were pre-existing lyrics, so the song linked above might also have had pre-existing lyrics.

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