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AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by tux1968 »

satisfice wrote: post #120
tux1968 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Would you refuse to enjoy food if it didn't come from a reputable source? Of course you would. You don't just eat shit at random. If a friend recited a poem, would it matter to do if they read it off the Internet or composed it themselves? Of course it would. If someone tells you they love you, does it matter if they are a robot or an honest human or a con-artist human catfishing you? YES, THAT MATTERS TO YOU. Yes yo…

I don't think those examples are equivalent at all. Food isn't just about taste, but could literally kill you. Not many people have friends who recite poetry. And as for love, that's something that takes years to meaningfully develop.

But, I barely know any musical artist's name today. Most music is just something to listen to at the gym. It's pleasant enough, but I don't dig in to know who is singing at all. Every source is equivalent to me, as long as it's pleasant to the ear.

Perhaps you're different. The only question is, which attitude is more prevalent?

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by tokai »

viraptor wrote: post #27

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?

Yeah, surprised at the amount of comments here about how good it sounds. The voice is full of artifacts, making it quite uncomfortable.

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by The_Colonel »

piva00 wrote: post #117
Max-q wrote: post #113

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When recorded music was invented, musicians protested. Recorded music was devoid of any vitality or soul. Recorded music still became a hit. Then we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints, lifeless and without soul. The synthesizer still became a hit. Now the next step is happening, and we see the same complaints all over. Only time will show if the next step will happen anyway. My gut feeling tells me…

You are just skipping the step that all of it had the human element considered, which to all of us is a very intrinsic part of "art". When AI generates a piece of entertainment it's ok to just call it entertainment, it's not art until AI actually has something we can relate to as consciousness (aka a "soul").

Human is still writing the prompt. That's your human element.

The prompt can be detailed, creative, and innovative. Kinda like a composer comes up with an idea for a new piece. But now the composer won't need the technical ability to translate it into musical notation.

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by erikbye »

weregiraffe wrote: post #114
Morelesshell wrote: post #30

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Depending on the popularity and your income, the experience of a artist life is really not that intim as you make it.

The experience of knowing there's a human behind the message is valuable. People hated corporate propaganda "art" before AI was a thing, for the same reason it is not human.

Depending on the AI tool in question, and the level of control it offers the human, there can definitely be a human behind the message, even if the final output is AI generated, the human had a creative vision and used the available tools to make it happen.

It's no different than using Photoshop.

Unless you only consider art done with oil and on a canvas to be the "real thing."

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by CrLf »

tux1968 wrote: post #66
CrLf wrote: post #54

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?

That's a poignant question, but with an easy answer: If I didn't know, I'd probably enjoy it up to its imperfections. But I'd feel defrauded once I discovered.

Like so many people felt defrauded when they discovered that the Milli Vanilli leads didn't actually sing, and that wasn't even AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli

Edit: I might add that I already suspect any illustration that even superficially looks it might have been generated by AI. This has ruined the enjoyment of so many people's artwork whose style has been co-opted by AI.

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by dagw »

hobofan wrote: post #96
weregiraffe wrote: post #23

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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…

I think the first place we will see large scale AI music replace 'real' music is in the 'lo-fi' background music that just about every bar, restaurant and shop has going in a loop. Instead of having various playlists, the restaurant owner can just choose between some styles, moods and tempos in an app and the AI will autogenerate an endless steam of background music that matches the vibe they are going for.
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