AI (Artificial Intelligence) Creators Club!

[The Ruiner]

Hello fellow creators! A bunch of us talkbassers have been experimenting with AI tools for various creative purposes, so we figured it might be useful to start an official “Club” where we can all help each other learn about and get the most out of these tools. And also to share our cool projects of course!

The goal of this club:
• Share ideas about how to use AI to enhance, create, promote your music/art
• Share tools, articles and other links that can help others learn and create
• Consider sharing your prompts and techniques for achieving predictable results
• Share the cool stuff you have made using these technologies. Let’s see your work!

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Clubhouse rules
• Be nice, be supportive, be constructive, be kind

• AI can get weird, so it would be good to call out your work if it contains things that might freak out an unsuspecting clicker. Disturbing, sexy or gory stuff for example.

• This is a no-numbers club

 

[bholder]

Subbed for learnin'. Only passively involved myself - haven't done anything with AI since a college course 40 years ago sigh. But passively contributing by driving my Tesla around in FSD mode.

 

[The Ruiner]

Here are some tools I have been using. At the time of this post, these tools are free to get started and explore, with pay options for more credits and other enhancements.

For video: Runway - Advancing creativity with artificial intelligence.
For images: AI Art Generator: Create Stunning AI Art
For text: https://chat.openai.com/

 

[The Ruiner]

Subbed for learnin'. Only passively involved myself - haven't done anything with AI since a college course 40 years ago sigh. But passively contributing by driving my Tesla around in FSD mode.

Excellent! Welcome aboard @bholder !

 

[The Ruiner]

Here is a tip I just learned about. You can ask chatgp to create prompts* to be used in other AI tools.

*For those just starting out, Prompts are the text instructions you give the tools that tell them what to create.

 

[JRA]

glad you did this, @RustfeatherBass! i know i'm gonna soak it all up! kudos! and thanks for the club/thread!

 

[The Ruiner]

glad you did this, @RustfeatherBass! i know i'm gonna soak it all up! kudos! and thanks for the club/thread!

You are welcome! Hope this ends up being useful!

 

[Joe Nerve]

Thanks for starting this. Looking forward to getting some inspiration here. Hopefully sharing some, too.

 

[The Ruiner]

Here is a pretty good video showing how to get started with ChatGPT:

 

[Wanker_Joe]

A friend and I have been using chatGPT for lyric generation for some of our songs with mixed results. So far we've found that it'll often take a fair amount of effort to massage the lyrics so they'll fit to music well. We've also been unable to get it to replicate some lyricists (in particular we tried to get it to do a Beck-like tune). Where it did work was giving us pieces of a song that we were able to generate the rest of the lyrics from ourselves. Kind of link getting a writing prompt or two when you are stuck.

 

[The Ruiner]

Here is a tutorial on using Runway (video generator)

 

[The Ruiner]

A friend and I have been using chatGPT for lyric generation for some of our songs with mixed results. So far we've found that it'll often take a fair amount of effort to massage the lyrics so they'll fit to music well. We've also been unable to get it to replicate some lyricists (in particular we tried to get it to do a Beck-like tune). Where it did work was giving us pieces of a song that we were able to generate the rest of the lyrics from ourselves. Kind of link getting a writing prompt or two when you are stuck.

that sounds like a great idea. Similarly, a friend tried it for a band bio. Same type of thing. Wasn't usable as written, but inspired some ideas he then incorporated.

 

[The Ruiner]

Here is a video for getting started with Nightcafe

 

[Wanker_Joe]

that sounds like a great idea. Similarly, a friend tried it for a band bio. Same type of thing. Wasn't usable as written, but inspired some ideas he then incorporated.

In retrospect I'm not really a huge fan of it so far. It was neat when it worked and some of the lyrics were interesting, but in the end I felt like my connection to the songs we made was minimized somewhat (especially the ones I sang). Didn't feel like "my songs" you know? We'll probably experiment more, but I get much greater satisfaction and connection to those songs I worked out and through on my own (which of course makes sense).

Great too to get stuff up and running quickly, but takes away the fun. Maybe takes away too much fun. I'm still keeping an open mind though.

 

[kevrex]

adobe express has ai-powered features, and they train their tool on the adobe stock collection, so artists get paid (i'm told) for designs based on their photos/art.

the ai-powered text effects are pretty cool.

 

[The Ruiner]

In retrospect I'm not really a huge fan of it so far. It was neat when it worked and some of the lyrics were interesting, but in the end I felt like my connection to the songs we made was minimized somewhat (especially the ones I sang). Didn't feel like "my songs" you know? We'll probably experiment more, but I get much greater satisfaction and connection to those songs I worked out and through on my own (which of course makes sense).

Great too to get stuff up and running quickly, but takes away the fun. Maybe takes away too much fun. I'm still keeping an open mind though.

Yeah I know what you mean. I tried it with lyrics, and it actually did a great job, but then I was like, "OK, this isn't my song anymore."

So far, the most enjoyable and useful creative experience I've had with this stuff has been to have it generate clips that can be used for video. The prompting, selection and assembling of the clips is the creative part. Having it spit out unique video bits tailored to the music that you can use without paying anyone is awesome. But having it write a whole song, or even just the lyrics would take the fun out of it for me as well.

 

[The Ruiner]

adobe express has ai-powered features, and they train their tool on the adobe stock collection, so artists get paid (i'm told) for designs based on their photos/art.

the ai-powered text effects are pretty cool.

That's a great idea.The way the image creation tools 'borrow' from existing art and artists, then combine them into new, undetectable things is a big blurry/grey area. Cool to see that Adobe is thinking about it.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Subbed for learnin'. Only passively involved myself - haven't done anything with AI since a college course 40 years ago sigh. But passively contributing by driving my Tesla around in FSD mode.

I used to be an AI developer. All that was old us now new. But I don't know what tools there are for music creation. I tried a few online ones and they were dismal unless dull, generic jazz fusion is your think. "African drumming in 12/8" resulted in some sort of cacophony in 23/7 or something.

 

[Wanker_Joe]

Yeah I know what you mean. I tried it with lyrics, and it actually did a great job, but then I was like, "OK, this isn't my song anymore."

So far, the most enjoyable and useful creative experience I've had with this stuff has been to have it generate clips that can be used for video. The prompting, selection and assembling of the clips is the creative part. Having it spit out unique video bits tailored to the music that you can use without paying anyone is awesome. But having it write a whole song, or even just the lyrics would take the fun out of it for me as well.

Yeah, this seems like a fun idea that I'll try to convince my musical partner to try out.

 

[Plucky The Bassist]

The AI art generation part of it is very intriguing to me. As somebody with zero visual art skills, I could see it becoming useful for album covers, art for tracks on SoundCloud, etc.