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I mean if you want inspiration there are literally millions of amazing songs on Spotify by real musicians. I have yet to hear an AI composed song that was in the least bit musically inspiring.

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Well, it's a starting point for songwriters. We won't get amazing solos and clever mind-bending lyrics (yet?). One thing I love about these AI music generators is that you can take the exact same lyrics and hear them in a lot of different styles and melodies. That's something that I'd struggle with. Can you easily imagine the happy birthday song with different melodies and rythms? These tools won't create the next bop, but they can seed back ideas to musicians, while people without music skills can have fun creating songs about the things they like.

You can't do that for any well-known song without running into copyright lawsuits for even the slightest similarity. These AI songs can generate novel tracks, so it's likely one can get away with a lot more.

Whether or not the tracks are truly novel is up for debate, but if you generate 500 tracks, there's going to be some very very usable and obscure melodies in there. And you will be able to rip these melodies verbatim, with low-risk of copyright infringement.

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