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To me it's pretty easy to grasp that it's disappointing the artist had to mask as two of the most successful artists of all time to get heard, while also unders
by waboremo 4y ago
To me it's pretty easy to grasp that it's disappointing the artist had to mask as two of the most successful artists of all time to get heard, while also understanding that it's the easier route to do that. It's easier to be a ghost writer than it is to push your own brand, that sort of situation.
- darkerside 4y ago"Had to" seems the wrong phrase. First world problem if I ever heard one.
- waboremo 4y agoI don't believe there's any point in debating semantics or dismissing the topic of discussion based on it being a "first world problem".
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI think it's a fair point to raise, 'had to' implies some form of compulsion or fixed process or unmovable obstacle in any context I've heard of.
- afavour 4y agoI don't really understand the objection here. Must we couch everything with "of course in the grand scheme of the world and poverty and famine it isn't a big deal, but..."
- bheadmaster 4y agoBe grateful - at least you weren't born in an AI-controlled human farm created to inflict as much suffering onto humans as possible. Poverty and famine are only a reflection of your privilege as a free human.
- darkerside 4y agoThat was a distracting side comment on my part. My real objection is that it's silly to characterize the artist as a victim. They had the opportunity to leverage other people's work, both technical and musical, to get eyeballs they likely never would have otherwise gotten. To me, saying it's "disappointing that they had to" feels wrong almost to the point of being offensive.
- highfrequency 4y agoWell...of course? If I pretend my blog post is written by Bill Gates, more people will read it. This is basic human nature. We can try to prevent plagiarism and improve our detection of it, but there's nothing wrong or disappointing with the fact that people prefer to listen to Bill Gates than a random blogger.
- tivert 4y ago> Well...of course? If I pretend my blog post is written by Bill Gates, more people will read it. This is basic human nature. I think the tragedy is that the attention doesn't follow quality or value, it follows fame and gimmicks. In your example, Bill Gates's stupidest brain farts will get 1000x more positive attention that an objectively-better tour-de-force that almost anyone else posts.
- testmasterflex 4y agoThat’s the unfairness about power laws and the reason why YC wants to hear if you have any unfair advantage in your application.
- JCharante 4y agoShould reputation not matter? A lot of people would read something published by the NYT but not Buzzfeed
- JohnFen 4y ago> I think the tragedy is that the attention doesn't follow quality or value, it follows fame and gimmicks. It is, but also... welcome to life. This is how it works. What determines success is very often more about things other than the quality of the product. For evidence, just look at the most popular products at the store. Very rarely are they at the top of the quality scale.
- tivert 4y ago>> I think the tragedy is that the attention doesn't follow quality or value, it follows fame and gimmicks. > It is, but also... welcome to life. This is how it works. So what? That it works that way doesn't make it any less of a tragedy* or any more fair. * The word chosen by someone else upthread.
- cortesoft 4y agoIsn't it more like, a mediocre artist who normally wouldn't have any audience found an interesting artistic choice that generated interest? AI and art is a hot topic at the moment, and this artist found a way to capitalize on the zeitgeist.
- forrestbrazeal 4y agoThe "interesting artistic choice" was to lead people to believe that a song he wrote and recorded himself was generated by a computer.
- cortesoft 4y agoSo a social commentary on AI in our culture?
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- Kiro 4y agoYou presume he did this for other reasons than simply having fun with AI filters?