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Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get a YouTube embed [0], of which it probably has a list it tries to deliver one from randomly. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSa701EftM

I got the same exact video. I wonder if that's because its not random or just doesn't have enough videos

https://www.thismusicvideodoesnotexist.com/assets/urls.json has about a dozen video IDs

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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I really like it, altough the music seems to be always the 2 same songs with some alterations - Dancer In The Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGv2gwk8As - Cigarettes After Sex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIKTnnsL9CU

Did you reverse search that with Shazam etc or did you just know those songs?

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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This is scary and what I feared would eventually happen. How long before AI is better than every music producer, trained on all of music how likeable something is? How long before fake influencers on IG and TikTok completely dominate by having more addictive personalities and videos to follow than real people?

Internet is already dominated by designed-by-committee personalities.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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It's actually good music. The visual parts match the music pretty well, too (though it makes me anxious if I look at it longer than 3 seconds). I do wonder, though, whether it's just over-fits, and takes the original music with some minor tweaks. Another interesting point would be to know if this music could be sold cheaply without legal troubles (or even distributed royalty free). Most of the music I heard is pretty…

> though it makes me anxious if I look at it longer than 3 seconds

I've read that people with Trypophobia can often have similar reactions to these GAN type generated images. You may want to look into seeing if you have a mild case of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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This is scary and what I feared would eventually happen. How long before AI is better than every music producer, trained on all of music how likeable something is? How long before fake influencers on IG and TikTok completely dominate by having more addictive personalities and videos to follow than real people?

There's two fallacies I think you've touched on here, one is that there is an "objectively best" music. Music is so tightly coupled to cultural movements, very subjective, and extremely broad in scope, it just can't be the case.

The second I feel is that people would still be interested in AI music in a meaningful way. I think AI music has a following now because it's interesting and novel, and that gives it a story, but once it's mainstream, that story is boring and people will go back to seeking real culturally relevant music.

Sure the music on TikTok/IG and friends could be generated, but I am not sure I care too much. Those platforms are almost entirely vapid, void of authenticity already, the music being fake too doesn't detract that much.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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It's actually good music. The visual parts match the music pretty well, too (though it makes me anxious if I look at it longer than 3 seconds). I do wonder, though, whether it's just over-fits, and takes the original music with some minor tweaks. Another interesting point would be to know if this music could be sold cheaply without legal troubles (or even distributed royalty free). Most of the music I heard is pretty…

> though it makes me anxious if I look at it longer than 3 seconds I've read that people with Trypophobia can often have similar reactions to these GAN type generated images. You may want to look into seeing if you have a mild case of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

I have tyro-phobia and yeah those Gan images freak me out, any solution for tyro-phobia?

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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This is scary and what I feared would eventually happen. How long before AI is better than every music producer, trained on all of music how likeable something is? How long before fake influencers on IG and TikTok completely dominate by having more addictive personalities and videos to follow than real people?

The public personas of celebrities were always unrealistic and unattainable for ordinary people. Maybe replacing them with explicitly fictional people would lead to a healthier culture.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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This is scary and what I feared would eventually happen. How long before AI is better than every music producer, trained on all of music how likeable something is? How long before fake influencers on IG and TikTok completely dominate by having more addictive personalities and videos to follow than real people?

William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) features a Jamaican space tug where the "righteous dub" played within is automatically generated by remixing a vast library of existing music. I was fascinated by the concept when I first read about it as a budding DJ, and it's kind of exciting to see it come to fruition, even if the single tune this particular AI seems to play is pretty insipid.
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