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I used to write a classical music blog. I was an enthusiastic listener but only had 1 music theory class in my life. Yet I had enough mastery of the vocabulary
by aworks 2y ago
I used to write a classical music blog. I was an enthusiastic listener but only had 1 music theory class in my life. Yet I had enough mastery of the vocabulary to get classical musicians and critics to read what I had to say.
I attribute some of this to years of reading classical music reviews turning me into a stochastic parrot. I then added some value on top of that via enthusiasm, specializing in a niche (American classical music), and just cranking out frequent, reasonable and sometimes interesting content.
Fanfare Magazine had a critic try using ChatGPT to write classical record reviews. But they used 3.5 and had it try to write a review of an old revered album so it "went off the rails." To write a review to the expected standards requires sophistication and breadth of knowledge. I can probably mimic like ChatGPT did but I likely wouldn't reach the (sometimes pedantic if experienced) level of a real critic.
I wonder if it will ever be feasible to have AI listen to a new recording and write a review on an objective basis rather than try to synthesize a review from existing text. That to me would be the real breakthrough.