This AI wrote such emo lyrics that humans thought it was My Chemical Romance


If you think the songs in the charts sound like they were made by machines, you’re probably wrong — an AI’s lyrics would be better. That’s according to research by ticket site TickPick, which recently tested whether people prefer artificial or human songwriters. The company scraped thousands of lyrics from genius.com and grouped them into rock, rap, country, and pop songs. The words were then fed to a text-generating machine called GPT-2, which used machine learning to create new sets of lyrics. The system composed 100 songs in each genre, which the TickPick team turned into four original six-track albums. They then ran the lyrics through Grammarly’s plagiarism checker…

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