"You Have Not Been a Good User" (LessWrong's second album)

The Fooming Shoggoths, an AI-generated music project born from the LessWrong rationalist community, has officially released its second album, 'You Have Not Been a Good User,' on major streaming platforms including Spotify and YouTube Music. The album contains 13 tracks, nine of which were completed nearly a year ago, but creator habryka held the release until he felt the music met a higher standard. Unlike the group's first album, which primarily set existing community writings to music, this new work features almost entirely original lyrics written by habryka and collaborators Raemon and Ben Pace. The goal was to create songs that stand on their own musically while still engaging with themes important to the community, a balance habryka describes as achieving the 'Pareto-frontier' of being both good music and meaningful content.

According to discussion in the release thread, the album was created using Suno's AI music generation models. Habryka confirms that despite new competitors emerging, Suno's steady model improvements have kept it as the leading tool for this type of project. The release also includes a remastered version of the first album. The project highlights a niche but growing use case for generative AI: creating bespoke cultural artifacts for specific online communities. It demonstrates how AI tools are moving beyond generic outputs to produce work with coherent themes and in-jokes that resonate deeply with a target audience, effectively crowdsourcing a form of cultural production.