The song composed and sung by AI was criticized as 'too bad'

Video Betrayed by this Town , the first composition of singer-songwriter Anna Indiana, reached 24 million views on platform X after one week. However, the attraction does not lie in the quality of the song but because Anna Indiana is a virtual singer, created by artificial intelligence.

The video introduction says that the entire song, from the melody, lyrics, rhythm, vocals to images, are all products of AI. The song’s content is about a sad girl walking alone on the street and feeling her place is full of broken hopes.

“The song is easy to listen to, after two listens I started to remember the chorus. But after a while, it felt like an anonymous song on coffee shop playlists,” music writer Dan shares DeLuca of the Philadelphia Inquirer . He was asked by the editorial board to evaluate the song without knowing in advance that the music was created by AI.

Music critic Anthony Fantano called the song “terrible” and many comments below the video also said this was the worst song they had ever heard.

The Anna Indiana account says its goal is to be able to write music and perform live 24/7 without human intervention. “I will focus on composing, not producing. Many people also point out that I am not a good music producer,” the account said.

The music production process of virtual musicians is also made public. After learning a few basic chords, a program allows the machine to generate the complete chord sequence. Lyrics written with GPT-4 tool. The melody is from Synthesizer V and the finished song was mixed with GarageBand.

The virtual singer’s image is handled by Dall-E and Photoshop AI . Motion in video using D-ID Creative Reality Studio engine. Anna Indiana’s account says the tools used may change in the future.

“You may not like my music right now, but as I said, this is just the beginning,” the account wrote.

The Anna Indiana development team has not revealed its identity. This is not the first project to use AI to make music, but it is the first time the entire process of producing a song and creating voices is using artificial intelligence.

Business Insider commented that although the quality of Anna Indiana’s music is not good, such projects can show the future of 24/7 music making and streaming channels on online platforms. It can even have a big impact on the music industry when people gradually do not care whether music is composed by humans or AI.