Where I get my inspiration for my A.I. songs from




One of my hobbies is creating realistic-sounding A.I.-Generated music using Chat GPT and Suno. I've released this music under the alias "Mike the Guy who Likes A.I." A listener on SoundCloud recently asked me about my inspiration when it comes to making this music. The answer is varied and complicated, and SoundCloud's internal messenger wouldn't take my lengthly reply, so I turned it into a blog post.

Inspiration tends to vary. For example my Christian songs came about when my wife's favorite local Christian radio station got sold off, and the idea came up to just make some of our own Christian songs by running Bible passages and my wife's inspirational ideas through Chat GPT.  Some of my earliest country songs required zero inspiration, as all I did was ask Chat GPT for a list of potential country song titles, and then followed-up by asking it for lyrics for each title. Then I took whatever melody Suno came up with that sounded good, only picking the musical style and gender of the voice.

Other songs come from actual life experience, for example "Tomatoes 25 Cents a Pound" is 100% autobiographical, and Chat GPT did such a bad job of writing about it I had to re-write the whole thing myself.  I get country song ideas, such as "You Can't Take Magna out of Me" and "Lubbock Dirt" from places I've lived in Utah and Texas.

Most of my Latin songs are inspired by the two years I spent in South America on a Church mission, for example "El Vendedor" is based off of a real Peruvian fruit vendor, and the chorus came from what he actually said on a loudspeaker as he walked through the neighborhood.

Most are somewhere in between where I think of a title or a tag line such as "Pour me a glass of that Chat Jeepy Tea," and I use the A.I. as a tool to get past the creative block that would otherwise stop me from going any further, maybe I start with half a chorus, or I add another verse to what Chat GPT wrote.

In rare cases such as "Strummin' Along," I already had a low-fi demo of a real song with me playing guitar and singing, and used Suno to create a polished cover. Some of my song ideas such as the "My Little Pony" Beatles parody I've had in mind for a long time and Suno finally came along and made them possible to create.

The Last-Minute Rock Album was literally last-minute from whatever titles and ideas I could come up with on the spot the night before I let my Suno subscription expire, after I decided to take a break from this hobby and focus on some of my other hobbies like my writing and audiobooks.

You can listen to my A.I. music on Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, etc.

https://miketheguywholikesai.bandcamp.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xcNPwGtYPDGPivtnjgLNZ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsmhIQJUYOoQd-dV6PHoHTQ


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