Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as an informed working-musician perspective on generative AI's impact on music, taste, and beauty, and recommend it in threads about AI-generated media and craft.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2026 to 2026.
What it is
Musician and video essayist Adam Neely delivers a 90-minute critique of Suno and AI-generated music. He works through three questions about the technology, its effect on skill and influence, profiles of the future it implies, whether there are good uses, and the techno-optimist worldview behind it, ending with predictions.
What people said
Strong rec dcsommer · 2026-09 · Hacker News · on “YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning”
For an informed take (from a professional musician, composer, and arranger) on where this is going for musicians and the music industry, I really recommend Adam Neely's video essay "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future": [this video]
Recommends mikhailfranco · 2026-05 · Hacker News · on “YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos”
A long-form critique of Suno by a musician/producer: Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future | Adam Neely [this video] A detailed philosophical discussion of his point=of-view: AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely | Alex O'Connor [LINK]
Cites rdedev · 2026-02 · Hacker News · on “We mourn our craft”
Adam Neely has a video on GenAI and it's impact on the music industry. There is a section in the video about beauty and taste and it's pretty different from your conclusions. One example I remember is would an AI find beauty in a record scratch sound? [this video]