Google Adds Music Generation to Gemini, Because Apparently Text Wasn’t Fucking Annoying Enough
Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought the AI wankery couldn’t get any more insufferable, Google decides to shove music generation into Gemini. That’s right, folks – now your favorite glorified autocomplete can shit out 30-second audio clips that sound like a dial-up modem having a stroke in a kazoo factory. The future is here, and it’s a copyright-infringing, ear-raping nightmare.
According to the latest corporate bowel movement from Mountain View, users can now type prompts like “compose a jaunty jingle about my cat’s hemorrhoids in the style of Mozart” and Gemini will happily vomit forth something that vaguely resembles music if you’re tone-deaf and huffing paint thinner. It’s powered by their MusicLM model, which I’m sure they trained on every copyrighted piece of audio ever created, because who gives a flying fuck about artists’ rights when there are engagement metrics to juice?
The feature rolls out to Gemini Advanced users first – you know, those poor bastards actually PAYING for this shit – because nothing says “premium experience” like being a beta tester for Google’s latest legal liability. You get to generate tracks up to 30 seconds long, which is about 29 seconds longer than anyone with functional eardrums can tolerate. And naturally, every clip comes watermarked with “SynthID” technology, which is corporate-speak for “a pathetic fig leaf that won’t stop some marketing drone from flooding TikTok with AI-generated garbage.”
They’re pitching this as a “creative tool,” which is tech-bro code for “we’ve automated another art form and devalued it to zero.” Musicians who spent decades mastering their craft can now be replaced by some middle manager typing “corporate upbeat anthem that subtly implies our toilet paper cures depression.” The platform wars are heating up too – Suno and Udio have been doing this for months, so Google is essentially the late jackass to the party, showing up with a lukewarm six-pack of piss-water and expecting a medal.
And the safeguards? Oh, they’re fucking precious. You can’t generate copyrighted artists’ styles explicitly – because the system will definitely not understand what “sounds like” means – and they’ve blocked certain keywords. I’m sure that’ll hold up about as well as a chocolate teapot. Give it a week before some ingenious dipshit figures out how to recreate entire Beatles albums by describing them as “four Liverpudlian lads making harmonious noises circa 1969.”
The real kicker? This is all happening while Google is simultaneously getting sued into oblivion for scraping content without permission. It’s like they’re playing corporate chicken with the entire creative industry: “Oh, you’re suing us for books? Hold my beer while we do it to music too.” The sheer audacity would be admirable if it wasn’t so catastrophically fucking stupid.
Mark my words: within a month, the internet will be drowning in AI-generated hold music so psychologically damaging that calling customer service will be classified as self-harm. Some bright spark in marketing will use it for their entire ad campaign, and sales will plummet because their product now subconsciously reminds people of a robot learning what dying sounds like. And I’ll be the bastard who has to field the support tickets when users complain that their “lofi hip hop beats to study to” came out sounding like a blender full of ball bearings and regret.
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Related anecdote: Had a user last week who generated a “soothing meditation track” to help with his stress levels. Played it over the office speakers to show us. Within 30 seconds, three people developed nosebleeds and our intern started speaking in tongues. When I killed the power, the user had the nerve to ask if it was a “technical limitation.” No, dipshit, it’s a fucking Geneva Convention violation. I’m now using it as our hold music for the finance department – accounts payable calls have dropped 98%, but so have the will to live of anyone unfortunate enough to be on our phone system.
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