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Having a machine-learning algorithm crank out generic music seems like peak dystopia to me
by bigfishrunning 1y ago
Having a machine-learning algorithm crank out generic music seems like peak dystopia to me
- esafak 1y agoPace yourself; we haven't got to Robocop and the Terminator yet.
- shadowgovt 1y agoIs it more or less dystopia than an army of musicians trying to eke a living out of creating stuff like this (https://www.chosic.com/free-music/presentation/ https://www.chosic.com/free-music/presentation/) to go behind your company's PowerPoint about how its Q3 woodchip sales didn't quite exceed expectations? Maybe the fundamental issue is that this shouldn't compete with a human picking up a guitar and having fun with it, and the only reason it does is because we keep tying questions like "survival" to whether someone can make woodchip earnings reports less boring to read instead of trying some other way to be a community?
- bigfishrunning 1y agoWhy does a powerpoint about woodchip sales need music? Also, I don't see how anyone is making a living on the royalty-free music you linked, unless there's some business model I'm not understanding.
- shadowgovt 1y ago> Why does a powerpoint about woodchip sales need music? So the audience doesn't get bored.
- whoamii 1y agoWait until someone auto tunes an AI generated song.
- ccozan 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Heroes_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Heroes_(novel) ? visionary!
- lc9er 1y agoJust wait until the rush of commenters that insist you’re wrong about being offended that they want to automate and commodify every aspect of your life.
- rpdillon 1y agoMade this point elsewhere, but the music industry has been on a downward slide towards making music as cheaply as possible for some time now. If you look at Taylor Swift's first 12 number one hits, each of them was written by a different writer. Compare that to bands from 30 years ago, many of whom wrote and recorded all the songs themselves. Labels don't sign rock bands anymore because actually recording a rock band well in a studio is 10x the cost of just using a sampler and a single artist singing. I know folks want to blame AI, but it's really just enabling the latest iteration of this trend. I'm not defending the whole thing. It's a shame, and I love going back and listening to my old Rush albums. But AI is not the problem here. It's the incentives.
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 1y agoWho wrote the last 12 Taylor Swift hits?
- rpdillon 1y agoShe only had 12.
- bigfishrunning 1y agoLooking at her singles page on wikipedia (suspect source, but i don't know of a better one), looks like she's had 11 singles hit number 1 on billboard 100, and most of them are later songs. She's had many more in the top 10. I think your theses here is a bit suspect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift_singles_discography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift_singles_discograp...
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- prmoustache 1y agoThe thing derpressing to me is all the energy spent making stuff I can enjoy doing or building weapons while the tech industry is still unable to solve real problems and build me a generic cleaning robot that will make my laundry, clean up my bathroom and toilets, wash the windows. All we have are shitty and useless autonomous vaccuum cleaners that get stuck at every other piece of furniture with legs or the first sock on the floor.