The latest AI Prince music; actually not bad, but still scary.

Reply #1 posted 04/14/26 3:29pm

bozojones

We gotta stop giving attention to this shit.

Reply #2 posted 04/14/26 3:35pm

nayroo2002

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Why should we look at it?
The mods should weed threads like this out!
Wait!
Then there would be less threads!!
Aaaaahhhh!!!

Welcome to "the org", nayroo2002… life, it ain't real funky unless it's got that pop

Reply #3 posted 04/14/26 3:46pm

paisleyparkgir
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What's the point in doing things like this ? Do people actually enjoy this ?

Reply #4 posted 04/14/26 5:54pm

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paisleyparkgirl said:

What's the point in doing things like this ? Do people actually enjoy this ?

If you read the comments, it seems people do.

TBH why shouldn't they. Many people just want to be entertained. They don't care where the shit they dig comes from, they just need to dig it.

It remains to be seen, however, whether we'll witness a culture war between those who only accept human art and those who embrace AI art. I guess we'll know soon enough...

A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/

Reply #5 posted 04/14/26 6:56pm

databank said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

What's the point in doing things like this ? Do people actually enjoy this ?

If you read the comments, it seems people do.

TBH why shouldn't they. Many people just want to be entertained. They don't care where the shit they dig comes from, they just need to dig it.

It remains to be seen, however, whether we'll witness a culture war between those who only accept human art and those who embrace AI art. I guess we'll know soon enough...

A.I. art is an oxymoron

Reply #6 posted 04/14/26 7:11pm

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ShellyMcG said:
databank said:

If you read the comments, it seems people do.

TBH why shouldn't they. Many people just want to be entertained. They don't care where the shit they dig comes from, they just need to dig it.

It remains to be seen, however, whether we'll witness a culture war between those who only accept human art and those who embrace AI art. I guess we'll know soon enough...

A.I. art is an oxymoron

If so, AI anything is an oxymoron. But since AIs aim to do what humans do, IDK.

A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/

Reply #7 posted 04/14/26 8:01pm

nayroo2002

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databank said:

ShellyMcG said:
databank said: A.I. art is an oxymoron

If so, AI anything is an oxymoron. But since AIs aim to do what humans do, IDK.

AI has no "aim".

People who want to manipulate other people use ai.

There is your "aim"

Welcome to "the org", nayroo2002… life, it ain't real funky unless it's got that pop

Reply #8 posted 04/14/26 8:32pm

themanfromnept
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It reminds me of a time when I suffered from constipation and couldn't find an effective remedy.

Reply #9 posted 04/14/26 10:37pm

databank said:

ShellyMcG said:

databank said:

If you read the comments, it seems people do.

TBH why shouldn't they. Many people just want to be entertained. They don't care where the shit they dig comes from, they just need to dig it.

It remains to be seen, however, whether we'll witness a culture war between those who only accept human art and those who embrace AI art. I guess we'll know soon enough...

A.I. art is an oxymoron

If so, AI anything is an oxymoron. But since AIs aim to do what humans do, IDK.

A.I. is just a tool. It can't create anything. Just like how a paintbrush can't paint a picture by itself. Or how a guitar can't pluck its own strings.

Reply #10 posted 04/14/26 11:51pm

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the paintbrush and guitar don't do 99.9 percent of the heavy lifting for the user.

Reply #11 posted 04/15/26 1:16am

Gooddoctor23

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Look at this crap peeps:

https://www.youtube.com/w...rt_radio=1

Scary eh. But is it good?

Man some of this material is legit. Interesting.

Graycap23 was ME!

Reply #12 posted 04/15/26 3:00am

paraded

It's better than I would've thought. Some of it is seriously convincing at times, but the giveaway for me is the overreliance on supsended chords. Prince used those very sparingly, and these are doused in them.

Reply #13 posted 04/15/26 6:58am

Boydie

I haven't listened yet - but the scary thing is, it will only get "better" / more realistic eek

It is like the fake Rolex watch market on speed

A 2 second tweak of the prompt to use less suspended chords will churn out a new version of clone songs - with realistic videos to match soon!!!

We really are living in scary times!!!!

Reply #14 posted 04/15/26 7:10am

leecaldon

It's quite disturbing listening to this. It's not quite there yet but give it a month, a year, a decade, and with the right engineer, this could be flawless.

I could see someone desperate for their new fix of Prince music turning to this (unless, of course, the estate implements a proper release schedule of vault material).

Reply #15 posted 04/15/26 8:14am

ShellyMcG	lustmealways said: the paintbrush and guitar don't do 99.9 percent of the heavy lifting for the user. That's also true
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Reply #16 posted 04/15/26 8:40am

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nayroo2002 said:

databank said:

If so, AI anything is an oxymoron. But since AIs aim to do what humans do, IDK.

AI has no "aim".

People who want to manipulate other people use ai.

There is your "aim"

AI is a tool. Tools have the aims their designers give 'em.

A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/

Reply #17 posted 04/15/26 8:43am

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ShellyMcG said:
databank said:

If so, AI anything is an oxymoron. But since AIs aim to do what humans do, IDK.

A.I. is just a tool. It can't create anything. Just like how a paintbrush can't paint a picture by itself. Or how a guitar can't pluck its own strings.

This is precisely the difference between AI and other tools. The fact that you address it this way suggests you don't understand what makes it different, which is precisely what scares me, because you're not the only one. Just like when people say "AI can't replace humans at every job" or "AI cannot have an agentivity of its own". Treating this one tool just like every other tool that preceeded it is the best way to have it blow up to our faces. Like it or not, it's different, and toying with semantics ain't gonna change that.

A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/

Reply #18 posted 04/15/26 8:44am

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lustmealways said:

the paintbrush and guitar don't do 99.9 percent of the heavy lifting for the user.

Exactly.

They also don't make decisions we don't understand and that may be detrimental to us.

A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/

Reply #19 posted 04/15/26 8:57am

JorisE73

I wonder when Eye Records will release this on a limited edition overpriced bootleg lol

Reply #20 posted 04/15/26 1:28pm

databank said:

ShellyMcG said:

databank said:

If so, AI anything is an oxymoron. But since AIs aim to do what humans do, IDK.

A.I. is just a tool. It can't create anything. Just like how a paintbrush can't paint a picture by itself. Or how a guitar can't pluck its own strings.

Wow. You just put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5 lol

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Fun fact, a lot of companies are easing back on AI or are dropping it completely precisely because it can't do what humans can do. These companies have spent billions of dollars on AI only to find out that they were basically throwing their money down a black hole.

For example, Take Two Interactive, owner of Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto IP, have recently fired their "Head of AI" and their entire AI team because it turns out that spending billions on a technology that can't actually do what they thought it could do was a bad idea.

Basically, AI is just another con like NFTs and cryptocurrency and the bubble will burst eventually once the bigwig CEOs realize that they've been sold a donkey.

Reply #21 posted 04/15/26 2:06pm

EnglishGent2

nayroo2002 said:

databank said:

If so, AI anything is an oxymoron. But since AIs aim to do what humans do, IDK.

AI has no "aim".

People who want to manipulate other people use ai.

There is your "aim"

People who want to manipulate other people will do that regardless of whether or not they have AI tools at their disposal.

AI certainly helps me in my day to day duties, but it also hinders sometimes, when it spouts some nonsense that is completly hallucinated. Like yesterday when it told me I probably have some iOS25 legacy code in my 16 year old project that is stopping something working in the latest version. Errr, AI, there was no iOS 25. So instead it made up some realistic looking fake defines. 😅

The orger formerly known as https://prince.org/profil...nglishGent

Reply #22 posted 04/15/26 2:15pm

peedub

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Wrong forum.

Reply #23 posted 04/15/26 5:47pm

nayroo2002

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databank said:

nayroo2002 said:

AI has no "aim".

People who want to manipulate other people use ai.

There is your "aim"

AI is a tool. Tools have the aims their designers give 'em.

You reworded what i wrote lol lol lol

Welcome to "the org", nayroo2002… life, it ain't real funky unless it's got that pop

Reply #24 posted 04/15/26 5:48pm

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ShellyMcG said:
databank said:

This is precisely the difference between AI and other tools. The fact that you address it this way suggests you don't understand what makes it different, which is precisely what scares me, because you're not the only one. Just like when people say "AI can't replace humans at every job" or "AI cannot have an agentivity of its own". Treating this one tool just like every other tool that preceeded it is the best way to have it blow up to our faces. Like it or not, it's different, and toying with semantics ain't gonna change that.

Wow. You just put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5 . Fun fact, a lot of companies are easing back on AI or are dropping it completely precisely because it can't do what humans can do. These companies have spent billions of dollars on AI only to find out that they were basically throwing their money down a black hole. For example, Take Two Interactive, owner of Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto IP, have recently fired their "Head of AI" and their entire AI team because it turns out that spending billions on a technology that can't actually do what they thought it could do was a bad idea. Basically, AI is just another con like NFTs and cryptocurrency and the bubble will burst eventually once the bigwig CEOs realize that they've been sold a donkey.

I've heard those sweet tales of "AI does not/will not work" and I see they make certain people very happy because, I guess, it's what they wish to see happen, but so far, most of the the news I read lead me to believe those "incidents" are just a small glitch on the way to AI dominance: AI is not going anywhere, investments keep getting higher, it's already being used for warfare of all things, and I'd be really surprised if it ever turned out that agentic AI was a dream. Time will tell, but I don't buy any scenario where we give-up on AI (or robots, for that matter). It's not happening now and I don't think it will.

It's a bit like all those times someone in France told me "self-driving cars don't and won't ever work: there was an accident in City X last week". Then I tell them about the current deployments of self-driving cars in the US and China, and they're like "oh..." Their accident was just a small glitch that won't change anything on the long run. And remember that only maybe a year ago, there were people here saying that AI could never, ever emulate Prince's music reastically. Well, it's 2026 and I'm pretty sure most of us could already be fooled by a well made deepfake presented as an outtake by someone we trust.

And even if you were right, there's so much at stake in case you'd be wrong that I don't think it's reasonable to just shrug it away and put it under the rug.

AI denialism is pretty much the only thing that scares me more than AI, to be honest.

A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/

Reply #25 posted 04/15/26 6:49pm

SoulAlive	this is so wrong an entire "new" (fake) Prince album created by AI?! Damn!
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Reply #26 posted 04/15/26 7:52pm

databank said:

ShellyMcG said:

databank said:

This is precisely the difference between AI and other tools. The fact that you address it this way suggests you don't understand what makes it different, which is precisely what scares me, because you're not the only one. Just like when people say "AI can't replace humans at every job" or "AI cannot have an agentivity of its own". Treating this one tool just like every other tool that preceeded it is the best way to have it blow up to our faces. Like it or not, it's different, and toying with semantics ain't gonna change that.

Wow. You just put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5 . Fun fact, a lot of companies are easing back on AI or are dropping it completely precisely because it can't do what humans can do. These companies have spent billions of dollars on AI only to find out that they were basically throwing their money down a black hole. For example, Take Two Interactive, owner of Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto IP, have recently fired their "Head of AI" and their entire AI team because it turns out that spending billions on a technology that can't actually do what they thought it could do was a bad idea. Basically, AI is just another con like NFTs and cryptocurrency and the bubble will burst eventually once the bigwig CEOs realize that they've been sold a donkey.

And even if you were right, there's so much at stake in case you'd be wrong that I don't think it's reasonable to just shrug it away and put it under the rug.

AI denialism is pretty much the only thing that scares me more than AI, to be honest.

Like, I'm not denying that it's something CEOs of big companies want to see succeed. But there are plenty of examples of AI just not working the way they thought it would. There's a Take Two Interactive example I have above. The videogame industry especially seem to have a real hard-on for AI at the moment because the people in charge see it as a way to reduce costs and speed up development timelines. But one by one they are starting to see that it doesn't work. Take Two found out the hard way after pumping billions of dollars into it and getting zero back. Even Microsoft appear to be cooling on AI use for game development with their new head of Xbox stating that AI slop can never replace human creativity. And keep in mind, her background is in AI development. So she would know exactly what it is and isn't capable of.

AI can be very useful when used in conjunction with human creativity but it simply can't act on its own accord. The very nature of how AI works means that it literally can't think for itself. It's not AI as depicted in science fiction. It more closely resembles an aggravator. It's taking information that is fed to it and it's giving back something that, in the best cases, very closely resembles the information given to it. But it can't create ANYTHING that is completely new or original.

Ben Affleck recently sold his AI company for big money and gave an interview saying basically that there is a huge misunderstanding amongst the heads of many entertainment companies about what AI can actually do. They see it as a magic button they can press to generate ideas and full screenplays. But it doesn't work that way. It can only replicate what it knows. It can't create anything.

As for this Prince AI music, I genuinely don't see how anyone could confuse this for the real thing. It was the same thing when I heard an AI Michael Jackson song a few months ago. I think it was called Bad Attitude. It was presented to me as if it was an outtake from the Bad era but I could tell immediately that it was AI. Every AI song I've ever heard has the same kind of unnatural vocal inflections. No matter if it's trying to replicate Prince, Michael Jackson or anyone else. They all have an unnatural feeling to them that just makes it obvious to me that it's AI.

Reply #27 posted 04/15/26 8:41pm

NouveauDance

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Every time I see Prince-related AI slop I can't help but imagine what he'd say if he was here and asked about it in an interview, and the one word reply I imagine: demonic.

Reply #28 posted 04/15/26 9:23pm

ShellyMcG	NouveauDance said: Every time I see Prince-related AI slop I can't help but imagine what he'd say if he was here and asked about it in an interview, and the one word reply I imagine: demonic. Well there's no such thing as demons but I agree that all this AI stuff is bullshit.
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Reply #29 posted 04/16/26 3:44am

Steelclawz

NouveauDance said:

Every time I see Prince-related AI slop I can't help but imagine what he'd say if he was here and asked about it in an interview, and the one word reply I imagine: demonic.

my opinion , its not demonic if they are telling you to love jesus . One of the songs is Jesus is the one.

and more heaven type songs are on there also. And if you dive deeper into this channel, you will find another album called "Funk Bible"

That to me also has legit songs . Maybe whoever made this, is just tired of waiting around for the estate to grow a pair and release the real music .

I for one am really diggin this channel

Ai or not , its still Prince's voice and it sounds spot on to me

dive deeper , check out Electric Touch . That reminds of Electric intercourse, comes with the screams and wailing guitars

simply amazing. I am diggin this Ai stuff

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