Benj Edwards turns voice memos into funk with Suno: AI ushers in personal media
binarybits · x · 2026-10-19
Veteran tech writer Benj Edwards publishes an essay at Understanding AI arguing AI is ushering in an age of personal media. He fed hastily sung iPhone voice memos into Suno 4.5, which transformed a throwaway ditty recorded while cleaning his mother's basement into a full 1970s psychedelic funk track with a sax line he can't stop humming, and other scraps into thrash rock and psychedelic country fusions. His thesis: publicly it may be "AI slop," but "it's my AI slop" — AI shifts media creation from publishing for the masses toward making finished works purely for oneself.
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