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So they compete with generative AI for a fixed number of jobs. The AI is cheaper and faster. Humans stop training to become artists.
Without new training data, the generative AI models stagnate. Progress in art stops globally, forever.
But for a brief glorious moment, we were able to say "huh, that's not bad".
As an amateur musician, I’d be more interested in these tools if, along with the text description, they took as input a melody or chord progression or performance data. Maybe ABC notation or a MIDI track? Anyone doing that? Other cool things would be a way to generate a sampled instrument from a text description, or to generate a new track given a text description and all the previous tracks for other instruments. Th…
The analogue from stable diffusion would be ControlNet, where you can train a superimposed model on auxiliary data, this should be possible to do with chords for example, just like you can do with human poses, 3D depth maps etc in stable diffusion using controlnet
Trying to do all of that in a single DNN, much less parameterize it useably seems overly ambitious (or will be of more limited value ultimately).
Humans take a long time to get good at art; in the meantime they still have to eat. So they compete with generative AI for a fixed number of jobs. The AI is cheaper and faster. Humans stop training to become artists. Without new training data, the generative AI models stagnate. Progress in art stops globally, forever. But for a brief glorious moment, we were able to say "huh, that's not bad".
For fine art, it’s a way for them to launder money and keep it out of bank accounts where it can be seized trivially.
For mass art, it’s about selling to enough rubes to make a profit.
Neither are impacted by a stagnation in art. If anything, they’re aided by it - suddenly the art you bought to launder money retains its value because it’s no longer the flavor of the week with the arts crowd.
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Build or seek out a MIDI generating model. I hope Stable Audio is never the place for that. MIDI is deeply lossy and it would be tragedy if it was the only music representation. Imagine if instead of phonographs, compact disks and streaming audio we only had piano rolls. What a loss indeed.
Midi is not lossy, midi is symbolic. There's a huge difference.
In practice, though, transformations from audio to MIDI discard an enormous amount of important information, with the possible exception of transcriptions of performances on piano (where volume, frequency, duration and a good physical model of a piano are enough to reconstruct everything important about the signal) and similar instruments.
Does this model support / "understand" concepts of spatial audio? For example, something like "an alarm moving around you in a circle". When AudioGen was announced this was my first question, but from what I've been able to test the model just ignores spatial audio prompts. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any discussion or interest in online discussion about the importance / significance of spatial audio. W…
It's interesting tech but none of the musical pieces impressed me (I play multiple instruments and have written and arranged music), most sounded too repetitive and not very imaginative. This is also an issue with diffusion based art AI in general, its good at a limited set of things but gets rather repetitive after a while. I could see using this as background music where quality is not important, like in games, tho…
AI art gets rid of the technical skill step but the rest is there, although you may luck in to something at random. If you’re using ControlNet on Stable Diffusion or training your own models you have a lot of control over the output as well.
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Sir, your dog can talk! Yes, but not very well.
You joke, but even those videos of people saying their dog can talk is just like this. It's cute because it's a real dog making sounds we really want to believe when it's just them mimicking sounds because they get pettin's and treats. What I want is "AI" to do something impressive. Why are we trying to make the system generate the sounds itself? We don't make artists do that, we give them instruments. Give the model…
Similarly, we don't have recordings of the actions of painters; we have finished paintings -- but if you're not impressed with what AI can do in the visual sphere, your standards are, to put it mildly, high.