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Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio

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Re: Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio

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Post by lannisterstark »

RyanAdamas wrote: post #152

For my two cents; the goal of our human pursuit is to advance our technologies and systems to the point we can all live carefree lives where the focus of our pursuits is self defined. It is not to "own more rights" to shit. Sorry, but no one actually owns what they create, that's the point of creation. And if you take issue with the term create, that only reinforces my point. We're all influence machines, input and o…

Ah yes, you should be free to rewrite the fictional work I wrote or add one chapter to it and be free to sell it under your name magically implying that you are the author. Screw the original artists, right? Why should they deserve anything.

Thankfully your opinion is an extreme opinion and will never come to pass. Tough shit indeed. :)

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I really like hackernews but recently I've been seeing a plethora of "your rights don't matter, you own nothing" bs spreading around.

Re: Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio

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peteforde wrote: post #209

I just ran all of the cited installation steps, which appear to have been successful... but I am now experiencing a profound sense of "now what?" There doesn't appear to be any new CLI executables installed, and the documentation links to an API but there's no clues on how to actually process a prompt. What am I missing? Alternatively, I wouldn't mind using it in a Notebook but so far this thread doesn't link to anyt…

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Re: Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio

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Post by robertlagrant »

tikhonj wrote: post #64
Tepix wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're wrong because software, as you describe it, includes the "cp" command which creates a perfect copy.

The copyright license of the cp code itself has no bearing on the copyright of what you produce (well, copy) with cp.

That's not the point they're making. They're replying to their parent comment.

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Post by robertlagrant »

elondaits wrote: post #184
stale2002 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a weird comment. Do you think that non commercial use simply doesn't exist or something? Because non commercial use isn't some crazy concept. It is a well established one, that doesnt disclude literally everything. Also, you are ignoring the idea that Facebook will almost certainly not sue anyone for using this for any reason, except possibly Google or Apple. So if you aren't literally one of those companies…

The issue with “non commercial” is that no, it’s not well established. Licenses with a NC clause are so problematic to be practically useless. If you just want to use something at home privately you don’t need a CC license… a CC license is for use and redistribution. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4559

What about playing the music in a government building as elevator music, for example?

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Post by parhamn »

javajosh wrote: post #211
peteforde wrote: post #209

I just ran all of the cited installation steps, which appear to have been successful... but I am now experiencing a profound sense of "now what?" There doesn't appear to be any new CLI executables installed, and the documentation links to an API but there's no clues on how to actually process a prompt. What am I missing? Alternatively, I wouldn't mind using it in a Notebook but so far this thread doesn't link to anyt…

You're not supposed to actually install it and use it, just comment on how cool and open Facebook is, especially in comparison to OpenAI. So, user error.

Right its not like anyone has operationalized Llama 2 or there aren't hundreds of repos for inference servers and the likes. /s

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Post by IAmGraydon »

gilmore606 wrote: post #72
Pannoniae wrote: post #69

"generating new music in the style of existing music" will probably be a huge field soon. I can't wait for it to happen, it's a low-cost way of producing even more music to listen to.

> I can't wait for it to happen, it's a low-cost way of producing even more music to listen to. I can't really understand this. I'm a DJ and a huge music nerd, and I spend a lot of time every week discovering new music from the past 100 years and all over the world, and I'm constantly struck by _how much of it there is_. I've spent weeks just digging through psych-funk records from West Africa from the 1970s. How can…

Musician here. While I agree with you that there is a nearly endless heap of music to dig through, I think it's interesting to think about the possibility of hearing genre crossovers and styles that don't yet exist.

As an aside, a lot of musicians seem to dislike this kind of technology, but I never saw music as a competition. I don't care if some inexperienced kid is generating bangers from his bedroom even though he can't play a single instrument. It's just something else to listen to. I write music for me.

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Post by emporas »

whycome wrote: post #176
RyanAdamas wrote: post #152

For my two cents; the goal of our human pursuit is to advance our technologies and systems to the point we can all live carefree lives where the focus of our pursuits is self defined. It is not to "own more rights" to shit. Sorry, but no one actually owns what they create, that's the point of creation. And if you take issue with the term create, that only reinforces my point. We're all influence machines, input and o…

Culture is based on the creation of those that came before. Genres of music are created as people try to mimic styles of those before…one could argue that they “trained themselves on the previous dataset”. No one creates anything in a vacuum. They utilize things that we collectively have contributed. Hell, language and writing is the open source thing that we collectively own that ppl use to create their stuff. The c…

Also the latin alphabet originated from the Euboean alphabet. Euboia is my home, i live here. My guesstimate is that all latin writers, wouldn't like to pay copyright for their use of our Greek letters in their everyday lives.[1]

I mean everyone who writes right now, into this HN thread, owns copyright to someone for the letters, amirite? That someone is me. Anyway, long story short, copyright was always a pretty ridiculous idea, alongside with patents of course, but it is only right now, with programs that can mimic writing style, painting style, speech style etc, that is obvious to everyone.

As a side note, there was a Greek private torrent tracker, blue-whitegt, which today would be a serious competitor to American companies like netflix or youtube, but it was shut down because, surprise surprise, there were some copyright issues, despite the site being a really quality service, a paid service of course. Blue-whitegt today would be a 10 billion to 100 billion company, instead all the profits aggregated to American companies.

When it comes to copyright, very soon everyone on the planet, will have monetizable torrent seeding. All of these copyright chickens, are coming home to roost!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#Euboea...

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Post by ironborn123 »

reducesuffering wrote: post #66

"Now, increasingly, we live in a world where more and more of these cultural artifacts will be coming from an alien intelligence. Very quickly we might reach a point when most of the stories, images, songs, TV shows, whatever are created by an alien intelligence. And if we now find ourselves inside this kind of world of illusions created by an alien intelligence that we don’t understand, but it understands us, this i…

Maybe this us vs them mentality is the biggest bottleneck.

If instead you consider that this new form of 'alien' intelligence is actually a descendant of human intelligence, that we are raising a new species which will inherit what humans have built (ideally only the good parts) and then improve upon it further..

It may sound grandiose, but that perspective changes everything.

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Post by speedgoose »

peteforde wrote: post #217
speedgoose wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main gradio app has been moved to the demos folder. python demos/musicgen_app.py Otherwise you can check the jupyter notebooks in the same folder.

Thanks! This will be even more helpful if you could share a hint about where this was installed to. I carefully went through the output generated by the "pip install -U audiocraft" command, and there were no clues provided. Disclosure: I am not a Python developer, so I apologize if this is a master-of-the-obvious question for Python folks. However, if there was ever a scenario where a line or two of post-install note…

You may have to clone the repository to get the demos folder. Otherwise it's perhaps somewhere depending on how you use python (global and often broken environment, virtual environments, conda hell, etc…).

I feel like Python folks are on average terrible at distributing software. So many projects have some python script to install the dependencies, still assume you use conda, or don't bother to specify the dependencies versions. Thankfully it's often the same patterns and after some time you understand what to do based on the error messages. But I wish they could use something like NPM or Cargo. Even something like Maven would be an improvement.

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Post by version_five »

voz_ wrote: post #192
JeremyNT wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that Meta is able to lie and call their restrictive licensing open source is nearly as misleading as "OpenAI." We need to do better than to repeat these claims uncritically. The weight licenses are not "open source" by any useful definition, and we should not give Meta kudos for their misleading PR (especially considering that they almost surely ignored any copyright when training these things - rules for th…

Can you chill? It’s def open source

  about: pytorch @ fb.
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