Thank you to everyone who participated in the AI Baroque Music Quiz! The quiz is now closed. If you didn’t get a chance to take it, I put all the excerpts into this SoundCloud playlist. You can listen to each excerpt, write down your answers, and compare them to the...
Can listeners distinguish between LLM-generated Baroque music and the real thing? I wanted to find out, so I created a blind listening quiz. It features 16 one-minute excerpts, mixing works by human composers with music generated by GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5. Link: AI Music Detection Quiz Duration: 18–20...
I spent the past week designing a test that I hoped would serve as a benchmark. But LLMs are improving faster than I expected, and my devilishly hard questions turned out to be a cakewalk. Here are the results of testing five modern LLMs on undergraduate music theory: As can...