Experts Pan Claude's Beethoven Sonata: 'A Markov Chain on Bach Does Better'
teropa · x · 2026-11-12
A viral demo of Claude (Fable 5.2) writing a Beethoven-style piano sonata in LilyPond got sharp pushback from music professionals: the output is only impressive if you don't know the field. "We had better AI music 40 years ago" — a Markov chain trained on Bach does better, which was a LISP "hello world" exercise 20 years ago studying with David Cope. The critic adds: "It really does suck." A classic outsider-awe vs expert-eye roll AI debate.
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