MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI
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"Permission is hereby granted" comes from Suno AI engine that creates new songs on demand.

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

Meh, Elton John did this with an oven manual…. On the spot.

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