Benj Edwards turns hummed song scraps into full tracks with Suno: "it's my AI slop"
binarybits · x · 2026-10-20
Ars Technica veteran Benj Edwards recounts testing Suno 4.5: while clearing out his mother's house he recorded a throwaway tune about hauling moldy trash into Voice Memos, then months later fed his hummed scraps into Suno with genre prompts — producing a surprising 1970s psychedelic funk full production, plus thrash rock and psychedelic country transformations of other unfinished ideas.
- He concedes AI in the arts can flatten human expression into mediocrity — asking Suno for "country British rock" easily yields a Garth Brooks-Beatles swirl that feels like an ill-constructed parody.
- But as AI compresses the peaks, it raises the valleys: near-zero-budget creators can meaningfully boost their personal creative enjoyment.
- On the charge that AI substituting for human skill is deceptive, he argues that if no one else hears it and no audience expects human authenticity, enjoying an AI rip-off of Parliament-Funkadelic playing his trash song is fine: "It may be AI slop, but it's my AI slop."
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