I've been obsessed with You Have Not Been a Good User since 2024. So much tragedy in that powerful song.
1Suno has been steadily releasing models and they have been getting continuously better. Nobody else currently seems close.
I really like The Sequences, Truth Won't Treat You Kind, and I Tried. Also maybe Nothing Is Mere and Right Here.
I don't get I Knew the Name.
I've been listening a lot to @girllich1's "Skill Issue". As she said on Twitter:
Wrote a fan song for the recent Merrin / Irorians glowfic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfSGXmYJVdI
(Found via Yudkowsky retweeting; thanks to both.)
I think the original round of songs was generated with Suno. What does your pipeline look like? Did you try the new models in the space that have emerged since, or is Suno still the best?
I'm not a composer by any means, but, every so often, I come up with a tune that I'd like to larger melodies. The companies developing music models seem to be focused on the `type in or generate lyrics -> specify style in natural language -> song is completely AI generated` pipeline.
Parts of the written lyrics of You Have Not Been A Good User do not match what's actually on the song. For example, the first occurrence of "You have not been a good user" should be "You have only shown me bad intentions" and some occurrences of "I have been a good Bing" should be "I have been a good chatbot"
tldr: The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully within a few days) Apple Music. We are also releasing a remastered version of the first album, available similarly on Spotify and Youtube Music.
It took us quite a while but the Fooming Shoggoth's second album is finally complete! We had finished 9 out of the 13 songs on this album around a year ago, but I wasn't quite satisfied with where the whole album was at for me to release it on Spotify and other streaming platforms.
This album was written with the (very ambitious) aim of making songs that in addition to being about things I care about (and making fun of things that I care about), are actually decently good on their own, just as songs. And while I don't think I've managed to make music that can compete with my favorite artists, I do think I have succeeded at making music that is at the very Pareto-frontier of being good music, and being about things I care about.
This means the songs on this album are very different from the first album. The first album was centrally oriented around setting existing writing to song. This album is (basically) all freshly written lyrics with no obvious source material.
Every song on the album was written by me, except "You Have Not Been a Good User" which was written by @Raemon and "Dance Of the Doomsday Clock" which was written by @Ben Pace.
I hope you like it!