It took 13 seconds for Suno, a popular AI music generator, to answer my prompt: a song about a robot musician at an open mic, hoping someone will follow him on Instagram. The only guidance: Make the bass funky.

Soon it produced “Digital Dreams,” — described as a “bass-driven, hypnotic rhythm with a syncopated bassline.” The lyrics: “My code’s alive, programmed to dream. But am I seen? Or just a machine?” Suno also offered multiple alternate song options.

If I wanted to, I could pay for a Suno subscription, secure the commercial rights to the song and pay a music distribution service to upload the track to a streaming platform.

Generating — and publishing — AI music really is that easy.

Is it good? Eh, not in my opinion, but I’m a big music geek. Would you know it was made by a robot? D

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