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I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper '(The "Software")' (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.
I don't think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.
Amazing. I hereby demand that all open source project stop using those puny SPDX tags and use this instead. Come to think of it, all licenses should be expressed in this way. Imagine the Magnus Opus a standard Microsoft license would become.
I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper '(The "Software")' (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.
I don't think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.
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I'd be curious to hear your reasoning behind this? Why does this being computer generated ruin it for you? Auto-tune has been around since 1997 so it's not like computers have not been a big part of a lot of music we hear every day.
Because the cause of a person singing is their mental states (desire, emotion, intention, etc.) and the cause of this generation of audio is that the words are associated with some backcatalogue of previous music. Listening to songs, as speaking with people, is in large part about enjoying the causes of the song rather than the mere variations in pitch. Beethoven's 5th even, purely instrumental, is enjoyable because…
What you describe certainly exists, but it's not the entirety of art, and I would argue that at this point it's not even most of art.
If this was an actual person performing, I would have smiled all the way to the end. Since this is AI-generated, I feel no emotion towards this, and just listened for a few seconds. It's technically interesting.
What if you didn't know either way? Would you refuse to enjoy a song, until you were absolutely sure it was performed by a human?
While almost everything sounded really good and well put together, the voice itself has a constant... phaser? robotic vibrato? applied the whole time, which I found surprising. We've got better voice synthesis available already and other instruments don't suffer the same effect. I've not heard that before - does anyone know if that's specific to this model, or a more generic voice issue?
You mean it sounds autotuned?
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Art will realign to put more value on live performances. Don't worry, people who push AI art don't understand that art is a form of communication between humans. They might learn when the bubble pops and they are left with a trillion shiny "art" objects that are worth nothing, because nobody wants to look at them.
"Art" already puts more value on live performances and scarcity. Popular music consumption is largely removed from that. Yeah, the last two live mega tours (Taylor Swift and Beyoncé) have a tad more personality than the average artist, but the usual stuff that you would hear on the radio might as well be AI generated and live-performed by animatronics and a significant chunk of the audience wouldn't care or even noti…