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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 fifticon »

weregiraffe wrote: post #23
cedws wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.

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.

I don't quite get why this is downvoted; it may not be the absolute truth, but in my personal anecdotal experience, there is quite some truth to it. I have had a lot of fun playing around with image generation and chat gpt.

But have also had the non-surprising "Hedonistic Fatigue" that comes with excess access to something originally valued. I have now been able to generate 4 and 5 digit numbers of pictures of awesome colourful steam locomotives and epic dungeon vistas, but now find myself fatigued by "what on earth am I going to use 5000 dungeon pictures for?", coupled with the dread of being forced to CHOOSE from 5000 options. And I learn the known principle, that when you can choose from 4 options, you are happy you picked the best of 4, but when you can pick from 5000 options, you are left feeling inadequate with "I almost certainly was not able to pick the best of those 5000 options, and trying to do so would exhaust me". So suddenly, picking something from your menu of options, feels dreadful and fatiguing.. (I get the same feeling sometimes, when trying to pick a movie to watch out of 16.000 options).

So yeah, no doubt the AI sketch/refinement tool will be merged into our creative process, but for the time being, I feel a second generation of alienation-estrangement with my "available options".

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

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Post by svantana »

mrfinn wrote: post #17
epaga wrote: post #7

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.

At the current rate of progress maybe it'll be months. I did a song for my company just to have fun around an event and the quality of the song was astounding, better than this one I think also using v3. I didn't even write the lyrics, I just described what I want in the prompt. Also I used one of poems I wrote as a teenager (not a lot of them) to create a song... the AI would notice the emphasis in the feelings of t…

It reminds me of CGI in the 90's. Everyone was so astounded over the quality of jurassic park and toy story, the rate of improvements was mindboggling. Predictions were made that in a few years, actors and movie studios would be obsolete. But in the meantime, audiences started to notice artifacts that were not apparent to the untrained eye - CGI was actually ugly! And here we are 30 years later - actors are still on sets.

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

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Post by abhpro »

consp wrote: post #28
mrfinn wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the current rate of progress maybe it'll be months. I did a song for my company just to have fun around an event and the quality of the song was astounding, better than this one I think also using v3. I didn't even write the lyrics, I just described what I want in the prompt. Also I used one of poems I wrote as a teenager (not a lot of them) to create a song... the AI would notice the emphasis in the feelings of t…

Pretty much all mainstream songs are of the same tempo (or slight variations), the same beat, the same scale, the same accents etc. I'm not surprised at all it can be regurgitated by an generative model. What I would like to see is what happens if you ask it to do in 5/8, 5/4 or any of the 7/* variants and see how that goes (I have no idea, might actually work). There are some examples in common music but not a lot e…

Almost none of what you said is true. Same scale? Tempo? Same beat? You think artists are just all using the same instrumental track?

And yes it can do odd time signatures. It can do all sorts of genres like art pop, cinematic scores, ambient, math rock, avant garde, baroque, etc.

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

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Post by Nursie »

cedws wrote: post #18
epaga wrote: post #7

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.

AI slop (to me) would be to pass this off as a song or something meritorious to listen to.

IMHO this and things like it are basically a sub-class of comedy or satire, so I have time for this sort of thing. It's a joke, and should (can?) only be appreciated as artistic as someone saying "Wouldn't it be funny if ... ?" because now that casual thought can be turned into a pretty instant "well here it is! LOL!".

I don't think you're supposed to appreciate it as music. Maybe I'm calling it wrong though.

(edit - I will admit that upon further thought, I'm not sure how I feel about this when compared to, for example, Nina Gordon recording "Straight Outta Compton" as an accoustic, mildly lamenting singer-songwriter style number 20-some years ago. It's clearly in the same satrical arena but one took a lot more effort and imagination. Kinda, because there was a lot of effort and imagination that went into both the training data and the model, even if this specific output was only a passing joke. It's quite hard to reason about this stuff...)

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

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Post by mrfinn »

weregiraffe wrote: post #23
cedws wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.

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.

Sorry to disagree, we already crossed the line where the "Her" movie could turn into a real story. To say it more clearly: It won't take a long to see people even having affective relationships with AIs.

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

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Post by DreamSculptor »

I remember that this song was linked a few days ago. I decided to then tinker around with this tool together with my colleagues (also MIT License text). The results were too funny to not share them in this context:

Our favorite: https://suno.com/song/30c5fff7-7417-42cd-b758-699854ef06d3

The extreme bassdrop: https://suno.com/song/1485e9d0-f0fb-4083-819a-bfb9db6c066a

The country: https://suno.com/song/a4307c43-0a1e-4cf2-94d7-e94a49b196d6

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

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

epaga wrote: post #7

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.

What I find most amazing is how the music changes at the start of the all caps section. Is this a completely new interpretation of what all caps means or could it have been learned from examples?

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

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Post by kombookcha »

Madmallard wrote: post #29
louwrentius wrote: post #20

We can now replace more humans for shareholder value. Edit: Remember 1984 where Orwell described machines composing music for the masses?

music seemed really low quality to me as a musician. I wouldn't pay to listen to it

I doubt generative AI music is going to become popular as anything but background noise, but I think it will plausibly cut into various commercial uses of music in ads and whatnot.

So while I don't think people are gonna be walking around with playlists of AI slop, businesses will be using it as a cost-effective option, which means it will be eating away at the gig potential for artists in the low-to-mid layers of the food chain. Which sucks, but is thankfully less grim than everyone just preferring the AI slop for some reason.

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