The results are in from my AI vs Human song experiment.
Last week, I took one of my original songs, Things I Left Behind, recorded in 2017, and created an AI version. I asked listeners to vote on which version they believed was human produced and which one was AI produced.
The outcome surprised me. Eighteen musicians voted and left comments. Out of those eighteen, eleven thought the AI version (version two) was the human produced version.
Here are a few of the comments:
"Beautiful song, Aaron. I think Version 1 is AI because it's one dimensional and flat. Version 2 is more aurally exciting and full of feeling.
Based on the production information I've gotten from you in the past, I'm going with Version 2 as Human."
"There's a huge difference between them. Version 1 is too perfect, like someone's lined up all the emotions and each one comes in with the instrument and plays its part correctly, then goes back to its corner to allow for the next one. I hope Version 2 is human."
"Version 2 has emotion in
the vocal. So I'm going to say that's the real one. The first one was good but had a one note quality and an overproduced sound that sterilized it, at least to my ears."
"My money is on #2 as human and my personal preference."
The fact that more people thought the AI version was the “real” version and that it had more emotion than the human version blew me away. It
was not what I expected. For better or worse, it seems we have reached a point where AI generated music is, to many musicians, indistinguishable from human produced music.
AI is evolving quickly, and I plan to stay on top of where things are headed, especially in the world of sync licensing.
You can listen to both versions and decide for yourself here:
https://www.htlympremium.com/blog/which-one-of-these-songs-is-ai
