Suno AI is so good, it feels like some sort of sorcery.
As you may have noticed, I’ve been obsessed with this new technology lately. I just can’t believe some of this music wasn’t created by humans, and it’s mind-boggling how quickly it can whip up a little ditty that’s actually fun and listenable.
And I’ve been trying to figure out how to bring out the best in it. Garbage in, garbage out, right? So I’m trying to feed it less garbage.
But sometimes I just can’t help myself!
Like when my Twitter pal Jarvis Best came up with a funny idea, which he only does about 15-20 times a day:
A Brian Stelter video game. Can you picture that? I can.
And now, so can everybody.
That was generated by DreamStudio. And then I made Suno AI do an 8-bit theme song for a Brian Stelter Action News NES game:
All that took literally five minutes from conception to finish.
But it’s kinda generic, right? So then I started thinking about all those ‘80s Saturday morning cartoons based on old video games. Pac-Man, Saturday Supercade, that sorta junk. And then I wondered what a kids’ cartoon based on a Brian Stelter video game would be like. What the theme song might sound like.
Then I realized I could get the robots to whip one up right that minute.
[Verse]
In a world of hoaxes and fear
There’s a hero who’s always near
Brian Stelter, with pen in hand
He’s on a mission to take back this land
[Verse]
With Arrows of Truth he shoots down bad guys
Taking on the villains, no compromise
Through the dangerous levels, he never slows
And when he’s hungry, he eats hams off the ground
[Chorus]
Brian Stelter Action News
Reporting facts, giving his views
In fact-checks we trust, he fights with truth
And powers up with a lot of Baby Ruths
Amazing.
Now, I did have to try several “remixes” to get it right. Kept tweaking the lyrics to make more sense and be easier for the robot “singer” to parse. And I added the Baby Ruth joke at the end. (Sure, it’s mean, but it rhymes with “truth”!) That took about five or six iterations. But the rest is all robot.
Again, this took mere minutes. It’s absolutely unbelievable, and yet you can hear it with your own ears.
Sorry, Brian!