Let AI write and perform a song. (Also: ChatGPT vs Gemini Update.)
If my memory serves me correctly, I believe we had many more catchy songs for TV commercials back in the 90's and before. The golden age of the TV commercial jingles might be over. I still wanted to see how today’s AI can be used to write songs to promote products. Let’s see if we can create simple songs to spice up your marketing campaign.
First, let’s write lyrics. I obtained a collection of the customer reviews for Maelove’s Moonlight Serum. I fed this collection to ChatGPT’s API and asked it to write lyrics for a song.
An Ode to Moonlight Serum
Under the cloak of night, you lay,
With Moonlight's kiss, you find your way.
A serum so bright, a vibrant hue,
Transforms the skin, makes it anew.
Fine lines retreat, in time's sweet dance,
Luminous glow, as if by chance.
Texture smooths, pores refine,
Moonlight’s touch, almost divine.
Blemishes fade, clarity bestowed,
With each application, radiance glowed.
Wrinkles soften, the skin does sing,
Maelove’s magic, in one small fling.
Yellow like the dawn, it wears its crown,
Trusted ally, never lets you down.
Here's to the nights, of beauty and rest,
With Moonlight Serum, simply the best.
It probably should be shorter but otherwise a pretty good piece of poetry created by ChatGPT.
Now head over to Suno AI. Create an account. You can start a free trial with free credits.
Go to Create, turn on the Custom mode. Then enter your lyrics.
Now it’s time to select a genre for the song.
If you don’t know all the possible musical styles (I certainly don’t) you can try clicking on “Use Random Style” to see what it comes up with. It came up with “infectious rap” for me. I don’t even know if it’s a real genre. But it sounded intriguing enough for me to go with it. Suno AI automatically created a couple of variations. I liked this version better.
While I may not be able to fake my way into Grammys using this song, I still found it mindboggling how easy it was to create this composition. You can just keep changing genres and creating more variations. Here is a “Heartfelt Rock” version.
Suno AI offers a new version (V3) of its generative AI to paying subscribers. I tried V3 to see if it offers improvements. The following samples are created by V3.
Is the paying version of the app better? My verdict is yes. While Suno AI V2 can make decent songs, V3 seems to offer noticeably better quality and the singing voices sound more professional.
There it is. Even if you have no creativity or artistic talents, you can use AI to write your commercial jingles for practically no effort. You can also write love songs for your significant other, birthday songs for your children, musicals to perform, or soundtracks for your next indie movie project to rival Blair Witch Project.
ChatGPT vs Gemini Update.
In my previous issue, I wrote how Google’s Gemini price-matched ChatGPT 3.5. Interestingly, OpenAI decided to slash the price of its ChatGPT 3.5 API almost immediately. It used to cost $0.01 for 1K input tokens. (Pretty much identical to what Gemini Pro’s paid tier costs.) Now it costs $0.0005 for 1K input tokens, 1/20th of what it used to cost.
Gemini API’s free tier still offers a very good value. (You can’t go lower than free, I suppose.) In any case, OpenAI’s price-cutting move to counter Gemini suggests that OpenAI considers Google’s Gemini a genuine competition, unlike the days of Bard AI. Of course, we don’t know for sure what OpenAI is cooking up to surprise us. 2024 is shaping up to be an exciting time to watch for competitions.