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New AI-Music Generator has an Odd Habit of Resurrecting Tom Petty

A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a weird habit of resurrecting Tom Petty

There are some notable music names on Udio’s list of early investors as well, including Common, producer Tay Keith, industry vet Steve Stoute’s United Masters, and Will.i.am. In Rolling Stone ‘s use of a pre-release beta version of Udio, the service produced two separate songs in a single day that were clearly using a voice that was all but indistinguishable from the late Tom Petty ‘s. We used the prompt “solo acoustic Mississippi Delta Blues about a sad AI” — like Suno, Udio calls out to OpenAI’s ChatGPT via API to write lyrics unless you provide some of your own.

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