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.

No different than someone calling a janitor a “sanitation engineer”. Fancy titles make people happy.

There are sandwich artists and sanitation engineers. Everyone knows they get paid like crap.

Unfortunately “prompt engineers” seem to be getting paid small fortunes when their job is essentially using a massive amount of computing power to commit various levels of intellectual property theft they hope no one will notice.

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