I spent a bit of time using Udio, and it turns out a bunch of its output closely resembles copyrighted music. - Melodies & chords sometimes closely resemble famous songs - Some output closely resembles specific artists’ sound/style - I could generate copyrighted lyrics for most bands I tried This raises serious questions about what it was trained on. Here’s what I got when I prompted for music by a band that rhymes with fabba, and entered the Dancing Queen lyrics. The tune on ‘we can jive’ is pretty much identical to the original. (Also see transcriptions: left is the original, right is Udio, both transposed to C. That phrase is very similar.) 🧵with more examples👇 (and more detail in my write-up in @musicbizworld, linked further down)

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