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Songtell
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#12Fascinating illustration of the allure, potential and pitfalls of AI. For example, its take on
https://www.songtell.com/death-cab-for-cutie/i-will-possess-...
is superficially accurate, yet misses the clear fact that the narrator is a stalker/controlling sociopath. So it will be if/when AIs that lack the ability to intuitively nuance are thrown at news feeds and other data sources to aggregate and interpret them, and people come to rely on those interpretations
Edit: rather a doom-laden assesment, sorry, I do still think this is amazing work
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#13Does this just query ChatGPT?
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#14Here is something fun to do with this: copy the description of a song from songtell (like Bohemian Rhapsody) and ask ChatGPT to write a song that matches that description.
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#15Fascinating illustration of the allure, potential and pitfalls of AI. For example, its take on https://www.songtell.com/death-cab-for-cutie/i-will-possess-... is superficially accurate, yet misses the clear fact that the narrator is a stalker/controlling sociopath. So it will be if/when AIs that lack the ability to intuitively nuance are thrown at news feeds and other data sources to aggregate and interpret them, and…
Like with my example of The Beautiful South above, it feels like the prompt could use a reminder that songs are a work of art and may have a hidden meaning or another interpretation. It _almost_ gets there with that creepy DCFC song...
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#16I spent a lot of time in the early 2000s on discussion forums and songmeanings.net learning about and contributing to interpretations and meanings of songs. This is an interesting concept (AI lyric interpretation) and my comment is something a bit deeper than this concept itself. Perhaps I'm showing my age, but what makes lyric interpretation so cool is that it's the intersection of two people's life experiences - th…
I like that. Something similar that I am thinking is that I don't really listen to genres. I listen to artists. I listen to a song and the start to explore the artist's world.
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#17This stuff sits alongside horoscopes, tarot reading and those "Like, what kind of a girl are you like?" pop personality quizzes in Seventeen magazine. Most of it is bland grist and filler that elaborates and associates adjacent words to create a "cold reading". There is the occasional "spot-on" moment, barely above chance, that seems significant mainly because you never though of it before. And an equal crop of the a…
Hey there! Founder here, thanks for the feedback. You're right, the whole thing as it is right now is something light hearted. I spent no more than 2-3 hours of development on this before launching and didn't expect it going so viral at all. In order to make it more reliable than it is right now I think of implementing upvote/downvote buttons and a comment system. I'm open to ideas if you think of any other ways to i…
I think it's really fun. And I get from your website that you're a
"what-if, can-do" kind of hacker who loves to play. Goodonya. It's
very addictive - I think I clicked through 20 or more!
What was going on my mind, I think, was a sense of amusement at how wrong it all is - but also how "uncanny valley" right. This is important stuff, what you've done, because it showcases applications of emerging tech - and how they don't quite hit home.
Part of me would like it to work. Part of me is horrified that it might. And another part knows deep down it never really can.
But yeah, the feedback you gather on why it isn't working may be the most important outcome here - for everyone. Enjoy the moment.
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#18It’s good at writing but not at subtext.
“My Lovely Horse” is pretty spot on. https://www.songtell.com/father-ted/my-lovely-horse
“You’re Gorgeous” less so https://www.songtell.com/babybird/you-re-gorgeous
Still. What a time to be alive.
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#19This stuff sits alongside horoscopes, tarot reading and those "Like, what kind of a girl are you like?" pop personality quizzes in Seventeen magazine. Most of it is bland grist and filler that elaborates and associates adjacent words to create a "cold reading". There is the occasional "spot-on" moment, barely above chance, that seems significant mainly because you never though of it before. And an equal crop of the a…
Hey there! Founder here, thanks for the feedback. You're right, the whole thing as it is right now is something light hearted. I spent no more than 2-3 hours of development on this before launching and didn't expect it going so viral at all. In order to make it more reliable than it is right now I think of implementing upvote/downvote buttons and a comment system. I'm open to ideas if you think of any other ways to i…
You scored on the domain name. Songtell.com is a good one. Did you buy it on the aftermarket?
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#20Fascinating illustration of the allure, potential and pitfalls of AI. For example, its take on https://www.songtell.com/death-cab-for-cutie/i-will-possess-... is superficially accurate, yet misses the clear fact that the narrator is a stalker/controlling sociopath. So it will be if/when AIs that lack the ability to intuitively nuance are thrown at news feeds and other data sources to aggregate and interpret them, and…
tbf, humans are also pretty bad at this, which is why songs like R.E.M's "The One I Love" get so much airplay at weddings
This is also pretty bad, but perhaps not quite as far from the original meaning https://www.songtell.com/r-e-m/the-one-i-love
(the key line in the song is "a simple prop, to occupy my time"...)
It's also better than a lot of Americans at figuring out that Born In the USA and Fortunate Son aren't patriotic anthems or particularly suited to political rallies, although I guess it has a lot of source material on those songs to parse https://www.songtell.com/bruce-springsteen/born-in-the-u-s-a https://www.songtell.com/creedence-clearwater-revival/fortun...