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Teens · Issue 2 ·

Free AI Tools for Music, Video & Art

Last week was AI for school. This week is the fun part: making stuff. No ads, no sponsors, nobody paid to be in here.

Music: Suno

Type a vibe into Suno (suno.com), like "lo-fi beat about a Monday that refuses to end," and it makes a full song. The free plan gives you 50 credits that refresh every day. Heads up: free-plan songs are for personal, non-commercial use, so you can share the link or use it in a school project, but you can't make money from it. Suno requires you to be 13+, and if you're under 18, its terms say you need a parent's or guardian's OK. So yes, actually ask.

Video: Microsoft Clipchamp

A free video editor in your browser (app.clipchamp.com) or as a Windows app. The free version includes AI auto-captions, text-to-speech voiceovers, auto-cut to remove awkward pauses, and audio noise cleanup.

Art: Canva

Canva's Text to Image tool (canva.com/ai-image-generator) turns a prompt into a picture for posters, slides, or album covers for your new Suno hit. Canva says its AI tools are for ages 13+, and it screens prompts and results to block things like explicit content.

How not to get burned

  1. Don't put real people's faces or voices into AI without their permission. The FTC warned last month that possessing or sharing explicit images of kids can be a serious crime, and that includes AI deepfakes.
  2. Follow the free-plan rules. Don't sell or monetize stuff when the terms say personal use only.
  3. Check your teacher's AI rules, and say when you used AI on a project.
  4. Keep personal info out of your prompts.
  5. If someone threatens to share pics of you unless you pay, that's sextortion. You're not in trouble. Don't pay, save the threats, usernames, and links (not the images), and tell an adult you trust. Real help is free: under the Take It Down Act, platforms must remove intimate images within 48 hours of your request, and if they don't, you can report it at TakeItDown.ftc.gov.

Your move: make one thing this week, a song, a 30-second video, or a poster, and show a friend. Or your parents. They'll pretend to understand it.

Next week: deepfake detective. How to tell if a video is AI-generated before you share it.

Later, Team GiggleByte

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