TikTok can generate AI songs, but it probably shouldn’t
by Emilia David from The Verge - All Posts on (#6HZ96)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has launched many songs that have gone viral over the years, but now it's testing a feature that lets more people exercise their songwriting skills... with some help from AI.
AI Song generates songs from text prompts with help from the large language model Bloom. Users can write out lyrics on the text field when making a post. TikTok will then recommend AI Song to add sounds to the post, and they can toggle the song's genre.
The Verge reached out to TikTok for comment. The feature was first spotted last week.
AI Song doesn't seem to be available to everyone yet, but some TikTok users have already begun experimenting with it. The results so far are not great. Many are out of tune despite the availability of auto-tuning vocals. Take...