Producer 1010Benja built his new EP 'Time Has Nothing To Do With What You Choose...' using Suno, a generative AI music tool that has drawn widespread criticism for producing derivative, lifeless output. The opener, 'Semiramis' Dream,' is the exception that complicates the rule.
The Verge's critic, a self-described skeptic of AI-generated music, admits the track is infectious. It leads with a jungle beat and hooks that hold up against Benja's 2024 release 'Ten Total.' The other three EP tracks do not reach the same level, which makes the opener's quality harder to dismiss and easier to scrutinize.
The full piece is worth reading not for its conclusion but for the tension inside it: a critic trying to reconcile a genuine aesthetic response with a principled objection. That friction is the most honest thing written about AI music in a while.
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