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Post by p1esk »

lambdaba wrote: post #234
klabb3 wrote: post #221

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> As impressive as GPT-3/4 has been at writing, what's more shocking is just how bullshity-y human writing is.. Yeah. Most people have focused on what LLMs can do, but I think it’s equally if not more interesting what can they not do, and why? When we say LLMs can generate text we’re painting brush strokes as broad as a 10-lane highway. Apparently we have quite limited vocabulary about what writing actually is, and s…

To me it looks very analogous to AI-generated "art", it's very easy to generate some generally esthetically pleasing visuals, but the depth of the art stays in proportion with the input effort... Which is often not much. All of this shouldn't be very surprising really, and there's still a lot of usefulness to it, if only for depreciating the low-quality copy-paste productions and making the really unique and novel on…

What is “depth of the art”?

Re: ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

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Post by airstrike »

p1esk wrote: post #241
lambdaba wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me it looks very analogous to AI-generated "art", it's very easy to generate some generally esthetically pleasing visuals, but the depth of the art stays in proportion with the input effort... Which is often not much. All of this shouldn't be very surprising really, and there's still a lot of usefulness to it, if only for depreciating the low-quality copy-paste productions and making the really unique and novel on…

What is “depth of the art”?

Hah. Good question. You could write a whole grad level thesis on it.

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Post by mnd999 »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #15

Well, this sounds like perfect tasks for GPT: "Participants responded to a total of 18 tasks (or as many as they could within the given time frame). These tasks spanned various domains. Specifically, they can be categorized into four types: creativity (e.g., “Propose at least 10 ideas for a new shoe targeting an underserved market or sport.”), analytical thinking (e.g., “Segment the footwear industry market based on…

Makes sense. The bullshit generator can replace professional bullshitters.

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Post by Nition »

telotortium wrote: post #200
somenameforme wrote: post #190

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The perception is that success in the field is driven largely by factors other than the quality of music. It'd be extremely interesting to see a Richard Bachman / Steven King [1] type experiment with a Desmond Child, Max Martin, or whoever else. Keep their existence completely out of the picture, and have them scout and produce talented no-name, but require the no-name to use only the sort of avenues that would be op…

In practice you need both. Max Martin himself has produced and songwritten for plenty of no-names, but for an artist that has the requisite marketing support, bad or uncatchy pop songs can absolutely ruin an artist who would otherwise make it big.

There is a third factor; the quality of the mix. People like Serban Ghenea[0] get hired to make the sound world class.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serban_Ghenea

Re: ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

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Post by lambdaba »

p1esk wrote: post #241
lambdaba wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me it looks very analogous to AI-generated "art", it's very easy to generate some generally esthetically pleasing visuals, but the depth of the art stays in proportion with the input effort... Which is often not much. All of this shouldn't be very surprising really, and there's still a lot of usefulness to it, if only for depreciating the low-quality copy-paste productions and making the really unique and novel on…

What is “depth of the art”?

Yeah, I couldn't say, it's just "vibes" I guess, just like the filler text produced by business consultants it's just not something that I feel would be missed if lost. It all looks the same at some level even when it's superficially different. Midjourney especially is very uniform in this regard, everything looks great, but it's kind of flat at the same time.

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Post by bigmattystyles »

I was sort of wondering this with the latest (I think now resolved) writer's strike. The union wanted reassurance that they wouldn't be replaced by AI; however, if I was the studios, I would have said `sounds good` - knowing full well that the union members will likely be turning to it. Unless the union polices its members, the appeal to use it is just too high.

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Post by highwaylights »

somenameforme wrote: post #190
mlinhares wrote: post #153

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It’s insane that people think producing pop music is easy. Competing on the pop music market is a cutthroat business with a lot of competition and the good ones get their price back in gold. When Scorpions wanted to be resurrected they hired Desmond Child to produce them and he absolutely crushed. These people are very good at what they do and there are very few of them.

The perception is that success in the field is driven largely by factors other than the quality of music. It'd be extremely interesting to see a Richard Bachman / Steven King [1] type experiment with a Desmond Child, Max Martin, or whoever else. Keep their existence completely out of the picture, and have them scout and produce talented no-name, but require the no-name to use only the sort of avenues that would be op…

“Just Blaaaaazzzee”

This is admittedly very niche but I see your point.

Also: I remember a time in the early 00s when almost every song on MTV began with Rodney Jerkins whispering “DARKCHILD” over the music.

Ultimately isn’t it just branding though? Would you buy Coca-Cola if it had some other label on the bottle? Or watch Mission Impossible 14 starring Some Dude? I’m not sure there’s a lot of fields where things are really competing on their own merits rather than the accumulation of their past successes.

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