Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
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Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
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Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#2The title was 8 characters too long, I edited to make it fit, and then HN cut out "totally"
original title: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#3The title was 8 characters too long, I edited to make it fit, and then HN cut out "totally" original title: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’
You can edit the title to put the "totally" back in. Hacker News doesn't know best.
Bend the machine to your will.
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#4So she finally found someone to hold her in their petrochemical electronic arms. Good for her.
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#5So she finally found someone to hold her in their petrochemical electronic arms. Good for her.
Wherever I see self-loathing and nihilism passed off as an art-form, I
know it's the industry speaking, not the artist.
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#6The title was 8 characters too long, I edited to make it fit, and then HN cut out "totally" original title: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’
You can edit the title to put the "totally" back in. Hacker News doesn't know best. Bend the machine to your will.
I know, but I don't think it's that important, just thought it was funny.
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#7So she finally found someone to hold her in their petrochemical electronic arms. Good for her.
Not petrochemical. That's only in “O Superman”. Chatbots don't launch missiles – yet.
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#8So she finally found someone to hold her in their petrochemical electronic arms. Good for her.
Wherever I see self-loathing and nihilism passed off as an art-form, I know it's the industry speaking, not the artist.
I know plenty of self-loathing and nihilistic individuals and if they made music it would probably reflect that attitude. Therefore I'd be interested to learn why you think it's the "industry speaking" here instead of, let's say, sappy songs.
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wherever I see self-loathing and nihilism passed off as an art-form, I know it's the industry speaking, not the artist.
I know plenty of self-loathing and nihilistic individuals and if they made music it would probably reflect that attitude. Therefore I'd be interested to learn why you think it's the "industry speaking" here instead of, let's say, sappy songs.
Because nothing sells quite like the spectacle of self-immolation.
Ever heard of the 27 club [0]?
On the night Amy Winehouse died, within an hour of her passing the media was inundated with wailing retrospectives. All of them had obviously been produced months or years in advance as often is done for Royals in expectation of a "celebrity death".
Amy's career always had the last chapter already written.
I watched the whole agonising show on television. Between each carefully arranged segment were advertisements for Gordon's Gin, Smirnov Ice and product placements for all manner of alcohol, gambling and drug paraphernalia.
The entertainments media literally led her to the Wicker Man [1,2] and lit the fire.
Edit: good taste requires I add original Edward Woodward version of Wicker Man
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film)
Re: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
#10I thought for a second that the virtual Lou Reed was hooked on heroin.....lol