Please don’t do this. You don’t need a professional mic to record a podcast with your kids any phone or computer mic will work. Then you can have fun editing it with open source audio tools.
Don’t have a computer generate crap for your kids to consume. Make it with them instead.
Would we have taken the time to compose such a track otherwise? No way. But it's sure been fun playing with what we can. The end result is us laughing together, and I love it.
If my kids are interested, it will spark the path towards "proper" music production where they learn the necessary underlying skills.
Chances are, this won't be the thing they latch onto. They have so much exposure to other things that this doesn't really need to be the hill I die on. They'll find something else to invest in.
Don't (1) ask a machine to automate the creativity and (2) then give it to your kids to consume in a non-interactive manner.
My argument is my kids would never even attempt to do this without the machine's involvement. Making original music the "legacy" way involves days/weeks/months/years of learning. It's just not realistic to argue that they should make music from scratch.
Kids making something, with any tool, is better than consuming something. Because making something is creative. They don’t need to know music theory to have fun making things, it doesn’t even need to be good. The AI tool should allow a kids creativity to go further, not replace it.
The original post was about a parent using an LLM to write a podcast to entertain their kids, which is just another way for kids to passively consume low-quality crap. The proposed alternative was to make a “podcast” with your kid, using any tool you have available at home.
The point was don’t automate the creativity and leave your kids to consume passively.
AI gen is probably the future of music composition. By the time your kids are professionals AI is going to be a lot stronger than it is today.
Are your kids having fun? Are they learning? Is it a good bonding experience? Those are the things that matter.
Suffice to say, raising a child is a uniquely wonderful opportunity, for those who choose to embark on that adventure.
That said, I think there has been many sci-fi stories written from the perspective of it being true. One day we may face that reality, and we'll have to ask ourselves what parenthood means.