Suno AI can generate power ballads about coffee – and jingles for the Guardian. But will it hurt musicians?

Heralded as the ChatGPT for music, Suno AI is the latest iteration of generative artificial intelligence to flood social feeds, wowing users with its (ahem) lyrical prowess. Plug in the musical style you want, a genre and a prompt for lyrics and Suno can spit out a full song for you in a matter of seconds. The business has been around for two years, formulated by a group of machine learning experts in Cambridge who struck an interest in audio, according to a profile in Rolling Stone last month. From the outset, making silly songs is slightly addictive. The lyrics might seem shallow and soulless, but they're also often hilarious.