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The future fucking sucks.
Yet is on our hands to change it!
Companies don't understand, we have to stop using their products.
Luis Rosman Till the end!
Unless you enjoy music regardless of whether it's AI generated, in which case the future's going to have way more options.
I'm a musician, so, it's all fucking garbage. But people don't care how their music is made just like they don't care what's in hot dogs, so enjoy your soul less shit music.
AI slop isn't music.
Human slop isn't, either. The issue is that AI slop seems to top human slop now.
Oh, the evergreen "but what about human slop" argument of AI boosters.
I'm anything but an "AI booster". Still, human slop does exist.
The absolute worst human art is better than the best machine art, because art is exclusively human.
Which is a rather weak redeeming quality. I hate AI generated slop, but that does not excuse the existence of human generated slop. My argument is not "see how good AI is", but "see how much human creativity has fallen".
If 97% of listeners can't tell the difference then I'm not sure the point of quibbling the definition.
So you're happy that you are being sold a lie?
When you watch a movie with computer-generated special effects, are you happy watching a lie?
The movie doesn't pretend that the main character has really jumped from a cliff onto a ship.
It isn't lying.
There are plenty of movies where the CGI is creating elements that could well be real, like people or buildings. There was a movie recently where rather than go through the legal hassle of having live horses on set they just CGIed every last shot that contained a horse, even if they were just standing around in the background. You've no doubt watched plenty of CGI imagery that you had no idea was CGI. It looked good, that was all.
And how many times did the creators (not the marketing people) say that no CGI was used?
I know it happened in several cases, and I try not to watch those movies.
But others, where they are upfront about it, I think it is fair play.
The key is ethics. Always has been.
Found the AI “artist”.
It is a question of authorship. What I don't approve of is zero effort AI slop. But the use of CGI in movies is OK because it serves the vision of the director. The usage of samples in music is OK if the use is transformative. Autotuning is pushing it but can be OK if use is limited or transformative. Even AI tools can be OK if authorship remains human. But an end-to-end pipeline of endless soulless AI generated slop is not OK. So it is very a question of degrees. AI generated/authored works should be labelled as such. Also the label should contain the degree to which AI was used. Not simply an either/or tag.
AI music is a way to generate propaganda and spread manipulative messages for the masses in a way they won't even notice. This way they don't need to find the talent who are willing to make it, but also they can churn out songs faster. They just prompt the AI with some mean wishes and the recipe for a song people have formerly enjoyed, and the next "top hits" fall out. even if people are not looking for that shit, spotify's next song algorithm will helpfully boost them for some reason.
Or, it's a way to generate songs about whatever topic or in whatever style that you personally are interested in. That's what I use it for.