TikTok, the globally renowned social media platform, has embarked on an innovative experiment with its new feature, “AI Song.” Designed to assist users in songwriting through the use of artificial intelligence, AI Song leverages the extensive capabilities of the large language model Bloom.
This feature allows users to input lyrics, to which TikTok suggests musical accompaniments and genre options, transforming plain text into potentially viral tunes.
Despite its groundbreaking nature, the feature is being tested and has not been rolled out to all users. However, some TikTok enthusiasts have dived into experimenting with AI Song, leading to a mix of excitement and skepticism within the community.
Initial results, including attempts by users like Kristi Leilani, have demonstrated the feature’s limitations, particularly with songs sounding off-key despite auto-tuning capabilities.
@kristileilani What is TikTok AI Song? The new experimental feature, powered by the Bloom LLM, lets creators generate unique songs and lyrics for videos and photos. 🎧 #tiktoknews #newfeature #generativeai #aimusic #aimusicvideo #tiktokai #tiktokaisong #bloom #llm #macinelearning #whatisit #testing ♬ I’m an a i – Kristi Leilani
The inception of AI Song aligns with TikTok’s ongoing investment in music and experimental automation. The tool’s foundation can be traced back to ByteDance’s Ripple app, launched last year, which allowed users to input melodies through singing or humming, employing machine learning to create a track around this input.
AI Song builds upon this by providing a text-based prompt system to generate complete songs with lyrics, vocals, and instrumentals.
In a Reddit discussion, when users were queried about Generative AI’s potential to dominate the AI industry and their willingness to listen to AI-generated songs, the responses were less than enthusiastic:
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TikTok AI Song’s introduction follows the trend of generative AI’s increasing presence in creative domains. It signifies a potential shift in the stock content industry, offering unique, copyright-free content.
This trend mirrors the use of AI-generated images on various websites and suggests a similar transformation for stock audio, depending on the quality of outputs from AI Song.
However, challenges regarding the quality of AI-generated content and potential copyright issues remain. The success of AI Song and similar tools will be contingent on their ability to reliably produce high-quality, creative content that resonates with users and complies with intellectual property laws.
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