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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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There was (and still somewhat is) a big uproar about auto tune usage in music. But guess what? You haven't heard a song NOT using it since at least 1998. Unless youre friends with every sound engineer out there and can ask them specifically if an artist did or did not use it (unrealistic).

The same will happen with ai. People wont notice, and it will go on to be the norm, with a very small pocket of purists.

ITT: People are really butthurt that their favorite artist uses autotune/pitch correction, and they have no idea how mixing and production work. These will be the same people listening to ai music in 5 years with no knowledge of it. So my prediction is correct.

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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Can’t speak to other ways AI is used, but I consume most written media using text to speech and have done so my entire life. I’ve seen speech synthesis evolve from the mid 90s to now and I know what came before then. I know when a voice is not natural. Even AI voices that seem perfect at first will have little tells if you listen long enough, like missing or misplaced emphasis, odd pauses, and confusing the pronunciations of identically spelled words.

This may not be true forever but for now at least it’s obvious to me.