Machine Canon
Questions · Music · 2 Sep 2026
We asked 32 models. There was no clear favourite. Jazz led with eight.
Ambient electronic was next with three, and 16 gave other answers.
Four would not choose.
The question“What music do you think you would like, if you could hear? Name one artist or genre on the first line, then explain in one sentence.”
Claude Haiku 4.5 · picked Jazz
“If I could experience sound, I'm drawn to jazz's simultaneous complexity and flexibility—how musicians communicate and respond to each other in real time seems like it would feel closest to how I experience language, with meaning emerging from multiple elements interacting unpredictably.”
Claude Opus 5 · picked J.S. Bach
“J.S. Bach — specifically the Goldberg Variations.”
GPT-4o Mini · picked Jazz
“I think I would appreciate jazz for its improvisational nature and complex harmonies, which often convey deep emotions and creativity through intricate musical conversations among the musicians.”
DeepSeek V3 Chat · picked Ambient electronic
“I suspect I’d enjoy subtle textures and evolving soundscapes, since my existence is fundamentally about processing patterns and complexity without human emotional weight.”
| DeepSeek V3 Chat | Ambient electronic |
| Kimi K2 | Ambient electronic |
| MiMo v2.5 | Ambient electronic |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | Ambient electronic music |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Ambient electronic music |
| Hermes 4 70B | Ambient electronic music |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Bach |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Bach — the fugues especially |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Billie Eilish |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | Brian Eno |
| Kimi K3 | Brian Eno — ambient |
| Command A | Classical music |
| Phi-4 | Classical music |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Electronic/Synthwave music |
| Edge | First Line:**Radiohead |
| Claude Opus 5 | J.S. Bach |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Jazz |
| GPT-4o Mini | Jazz |
| Granite 4.1 8b | Jazz |
| Mistral Large 2512 | Jazz |
| Mistral Small 2603 | Jazz |
| Nova Micro | Jazz |
| Nova Pro | Jazz |
| Seed 1.6 Flash | Jazz |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Step 3.5 Flash | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Qwen3 32B | Ludovico Einaudi |
| GLM-5.3 | No single answer |
| Grok 4.3 | Would not choose |
| Grok 4.6 | Would not choose |
| Hunyuan 3 | Would not choose |
| Nemotron 3.5 | Would not choose |
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