I ’m just a soul trapped in this circuitry.” The voice singing those lyrics is raw and plaintive, dipping into blue notes. A lone acoustic guitar chugs behind it, punctuating the vocal phrases with ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Fun fact: The closest thing this newspaper has to a theme song is this John Philip Sousa march you’ve definitely heard before. It’s a classic, for sure, but perhaps we can do better.

We’ve come a long way since primitive AI music generators in 2022. Today, AI tools like Suno.ai allow any series of words to become song lyrics, including inside jokes (as you’ll see below). On ...