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Which means a net negative for humanity.
Depends, the camera killed painting and is a positive for art in my opinion It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences (for lack of non-marketing speak for self curated music)
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Simply sharing metadata, related artists, genres, etc would create a pretty interesting ecosystem[1]. [1]: https://everynoise.com/
Every Noise was created by a former Spotify employee.
I have a lot of respect for Glenn McDonald for spam fighting all these years on Spotify, but we can go better than PCA for mapping music these days. Any neural embedding model is going to produce more meaningful axes. In fact Spotify had an intern who did just that, just before the launch of Discover Weekly: Sander Dieleman. Along with Aäron van den Oord he was snapped up by Deepmind after their Spotify internship. Those two guys were (and are) wildly good at what they do.
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Depends, the camera killed painting and is a positive for art in my opinion It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences (for lack of non-marketing speak for self curated music)
The camera did not kill painting. And how does comparing a camera to an LLM even make sense?
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Depends, the camera killed painting and is a positive for art in my opinion It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences (for lack of non-marketing speak for self curated music)
The camera did not kill painting. And how does comparing a camera to an LLM even make sense?
My point is that photography is essentially a simulacra of reality, yet it unexpectedly created its own art form and influenced existing ones. So will the use of LLMs for generation
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Depends, the camera killed painting and is a positive for art in my opinion It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences (for lack of non-marketing speak for self curated music)
The camera did not kill painting. There are tons and tons of painters still, lots of them use digital means like a tablet these days but it still absolutely exists.
Yes, because art evolves over time.
As it very likely will with generative art.
And even with that evolution, people still use paint, and people will still use instruments and make music the same ways we always have...
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> I wish Spotify welcomed or collaborated with these archival initiatives. Spotify licenses the music in their library under specific terms. They don't own it. They can't just decide to give out freely on their own terms. > Anna's Archive does not compete with Spotify in any way. I think HN often underestimates the breadth of casual piracy among the general public who want to avoid paying $10/month for a service. The…
I doubt such a tool would be allowed in the major mobile app stores. The library of music isn't the product.
I wish Spotify welcomed or collaborated with these archival initiatives. Anna's Archive does not compete with Spotify in any way.
Convenience won. How many people are actually going to download a torrent client, navigate through some massive torrent file collection to check the files of the artists they want to download so they can upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?
A sufficiently seeded torrent is a high latency static CDN. You just need a client that can make use of it. I'm not sure if anyone will be interested in making one however, you can already get a patched Spotify APK from the usual mobile piracy spaces that's good enough.
The metadata is 200 GB which can be easily indexed and could be made searchable, then you download only what you need
I wish Spotify welcomed or collaborated with these archival initiatives. Anna's Archive does not compete with Spotify in any way.
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Which means a net negative for humanity.
Depends, the camera killed painting and is a positive for art in my opinion It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences (for lack of non-marketing speak for self curated music)
I think and have always thought the exact same thing will happen with generative AI.