Great music and aggravating moderation
First of all, I’m using Tad.ai for generating symphonic and operatic heavy metal songs, mostly in historical and fantasy settings, for my own enjoyment. If you generate in another genre, your experience might be different. I have to say that I’m extremely happy with the quality of music Tad generates. The heavy metal is genuinely impressive. The melodies are great, the vocals sound powerful, the guitars and rhythm section are clear, and overall I don’t think any other AI music generator currently comes close. I would definitely give 5 stars to it. My problem with Tad is the moderation system introduced around May 2026. The content policy says “no depictions of violence”, which sounds reasonable enough. In practice, however, the system often blocks content that contains no violence at all. For example, I was recently generating a song where an officer in a historical setting receives an order to hold the line and sings about his willingness to risk his life to protect his country. There was no “kill”, “die”, “fall”, “sacrifice”, or any other explicit reference to violence. The lyrics generator kept rewriting the song until it became a generic song about holding the line until victory. Another example: I was generating a song about Dante, the author of the Divine Comedy. I had to remove the word “hell” from the phrase “descend to hell” because it kept triggering moderation. In a song about a knight setting off to fight a dragon, the version that finally passed moderation was a knight setting off to see a dragon. The system also frequently blocks songs involving negative emotions or interpersonal conflict. I’ve had songs rejected because a character admitted he was knowingly lying to someone, or because a character sang that “my brother is an idiot, but he’s still my brother”. Historical narratives, tragedies, and character-driven songs often involve conflict, guilt, fear, regret, deception, sacrifice, or difficult choices. Those themes are not the same thing as graphic violence. At the moment, the moderation system often treats them as if they were. What makes it particularly frustrating is that the moderation sometimes feels inconsistent. Similar ideas may pass in one context and fail in another, which makes it difficult to understand where the actual boundaries are. This experience I can only rate as 1 star, hence the final rating of 3 stars. I want to stress that I’m writing this because I genuinely like the product. The music quality is amazing, and I’ve spent many hours generating songs with Tad. I simply wish the moderation focused on actual violent content instead of blocking so many harmless historical, fantasy, dramatic, or emotional themes.