Google’s Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today - 18-Feb-26

The march and quality of LLMs for music production continues unabated.

This subject has been oft debated in this forum so I won't bore everyone with a rehash of the arguments for (not many) or against (the majority).

However, I thought it worth briefly highlighting that the availability, and ease, for creating mid-quality music has just got a whole lot wider although the lyrics are a tad naff. As Caesar would say "Let the Games begin!"

FWIW, To my ears the samples “Sweet Like Plantain“ and “Sea Shanty“ sounded not bad on a mid-fi laptop. The one about the socks is plain silly but funny.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/02/gemini-can-now-generate-ai-music-for-you-no-lyrics-required/

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Hmmm, another processing plant to manufacture input for Spotify and co.

Ah well, who am I to complain when - as I just learnt watching the winter olympics - that one can get 29 points for a tripple corkscrew and a 360 buttplug (I`m sure that`s what the commentator said) in the slopestyle event.

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I used to enjoy listening to play lists created by Spotify when in the gym, that way I discovered a lot of new artists that I did not know. However since a few months when they started to push these AI crap tracks, I no longer listen to play lists, I just go to an artist I know and stay there.

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