October 29 marked the official birthday of the Internet — the date in 1969 when the first message was sent over ARPANET.
To mark the occasion, I experimented with something that didn’t exist even two years ago: I used Suno, an AI music generation tool, to create a hip-hop track from scratch. Just a prompt.
The entire track — lyrics, vocals, production — done by AI in minutes.
I’m still not sure how I feel about it.
On one hand, it’s a remarkable technical achievement — and an obvious next step after what we’ve seen with AI-generated images and video.
On the other hand, it raises the same core questions we’ve all been circling:
- What does creativity mean when machines can mimic style?
- What guardrails are needed, and who sets them?
- How do we preserve the deeply human parts of making — the struggle, the iteration, the personal?
I don’t think AI replaces true artists. But it does force us to re-evaluate what we value, protect, and amplify.
We’ve opened Pandora’s box. The question is — now what?
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