Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator

[erronis]

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/google_musical_slop/

Who needs to express themselves through music when a bot will do it for you with nothing but a prompt?

If you've ever wanted to make music but have neither the talent nor the inspiration, Google has the AI tool for you. Gemini will now generate a 30-second song for you directly from a text prompt, photo, or video.

Google launched Lyria 3, the latest iteration of its music creation AI, on Wednesday, and has made it far more available than the previous versions of the engine. Like image creation tool Nano Banana and video-making AI Veo, Lyria 3 lives right in the Gemini Tools menu, where it can be selected and used to create a song with little more than a short description.

Google's examples in its announcement post include an R&B song about socks finding their matches in a washing machine and an afrobeat track about childhood memories cooking plantain-based meals with one's mother, both of which included lyrics that Google appeared proud to say were written on the fly by AI.

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Because nothing says "I love you, Mom" like a song written and performed by a Google AI for the low, low cost of ruining the environment. Oh, and Google is also throwing in cover art generated by Nano Banana, so no need to actually find a sentimental picture to include.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. A slew of AI companies are betting $100-150 billion

that they can get this going and profitable before the debts come due. That people will pay, en masse $15-100 a month to start. That the 95% of laid off execs and office workers will still need AI.

Lots of personal computer companies went belly up. Lots of dot comes pissed billions of venture capital on startups. Lucent, WorldCom, Enron were in the fallout.

AI financing is Bernie Madoff without the Ponzi.

Time your bets better than the principals involved. Have an exit strategy.

[erronis]

2. But only the insiders know when to exit.

And before that which cards to hold and when to fold. The trump family/crime group is playing the world markets in the same way.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

3. I despise AI

It replaces personal creativity in the same way computers (and PARTICULARLY GOOGLE) has replaced humans' ability to think and recall.