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This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by falcor84 »

skor wrote: post #48
reducesuffering wrote: post #15

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?

Don't forget that playing a musical instrument or watching crowds move to your beat is an incredible experience that is not going to be enjoyed by artificial systems, at least anytime soon.

>...watching crowds move to your beat is an incredible experience that is not going to be enjoyed by artificial systems...

Leving aside arguments about qualia, couldn't we just make the "crowd moving" metric part of the objective function?

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by jamesbrady »

skor wrote: post #48
reducesuffering wrote: post #15

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?

Don't forget that playing a musical instrument or watching crowds move to your beat is an incredible experience that is not going to be enjoyed by artificial systems, at least anytime soon.

Make part of your AI DJ a reinforcement learning agent whose reward function considers the amplitude and coherence of the movement of the crowd.

This agent would enjoy the moving crowds in a much more authentic way than a human DJ would.

I can't find it now, but there was a wearable project (I believe earrings?) which gave quantitative feedback about how a music audience were moving.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by jamesbrady »

lmm wrote: post #39
reducesuffering wrote: post #15

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.

This is already happening: the top 5 virtual influencers have over 11MM followers in total.

It's not clear this is healthier.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by amatecha »

I would love to see this used with music that's already extremely "algorithmic" and aesthetically lends itself to a computer-created process... IDM stuff like Access to Arasaka[0], Autechre[1], Qebrus[2] etc. Can I just take an artist's entire discography (or that of a few artists) and generate comparable material? Ahhhh can I have "more music" from my favorite artists!??! hehehe :)

[0] https://tympanikaudio.bandcamp.com/track/nypox

[1] https://autechre.bandcamp.com/track/acroyearii

[2] https://exophobiaorgqebrus.bandcamp.com/track/hmn-fshn

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by zapdrive »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #33
c-fe wrote: post #14

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?

Yes.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by hfjfktkrkf »

ehnto wrote: post #37
reducesuffering wrote: post #15

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,…

Parent meant best in the sense of Billboard Hot 100.

Saying people will not be interested in AI music is like saying people will not be interested in movies with CGI.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by jcims »

ehnto wrote: post #37
reducesuffering wrote: post #15

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,…

Maybe we call them dopamine melodies instead of music to underscore the effect rather than the art. The fact that most synthetic music today is hot garbage doesn’t convince me that we couldn’t connect with it in a meaningful way in the future. After all, things like GPT3 are more like talking to a hive of humans than a single alien.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by StavrosK »

smithmayowa wrote: post #38
BoiledCabbage wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

You're afraid of cheese?

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by mhh__ »

c-fe wrote: post #14

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

The former music video shows the holy grail for an AI (Don't have to pay for models, or at least not that kind of model)
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