Someone once said it better than I ever could: it doesn’t matter how good it is, I don’t want art without anybody’s consciousness behind it.
Would you stop liking your favorite movie if you discovered it was actually made by an AI?
Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
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Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#72Along similar lines, a blocklist for filtering AI crap out of image searches: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
These strike me as momentary throes from a technological/cultural realignment. Back in the day there were tons of people who were totally opposed to the rising genre of "electronic" music. Today you couldn't call electronic music "not music" without drawing the ire of lots of people. In the same vein, people opposed the internet, digital drawing tablets, digital cameras. AI is interesting because it can be use to "ju…
>Today you couldn't call electronic music "not music"
I'm not sure anyone is calling AI music "not music." It's just so far a bit rubbish. It mostly gets called AI slop which is kind of fair.
Maybe we'll get a Donna Summer - I Feel Love moment but I don't think it's arrived yet. I Feel Love was probably the first big electronic music hit and did stuff you couldn't do with regular instruments.
Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#73Along similar lines, a blocklist for filtering AI crap out of image searches: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
These strike me as momentary throes from a technological/cultural realignment. Back in the day there were tons of people who were totally opposed to the rising genre of "electronic" music. Today you couldn't call electronic music "not music" without drawing the ire of lots of people. In the same vein, people opposed the internet, digital drawing tablets, digital cameras. AI is interesting because it can be use to "ju…
I don't think the parallel quite fits.
There's always resistance to new genres of music. Rock'n'roll was considered evil, a bad influence on children, by the establishment of its day. People didn't like electronic music because they thought it wasn't creative enough, and that it was just "noise".
AI generated music -- at least the current iteration of it -- is different. For the most part it's created in order to flood platforms with low-effort content in order to win advertising dollars. It's spam, plain and simple.
I'm not saying that all AI generated music is spam, or that it won't turn into an art form that people appreciate. But right now, the majority of it is not the result of creative endeavor. EDM and other new genres didn't really go through this initial spam period.
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#74Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Show me an AI with a point of view. Show me an AI with an opinion; an aesthetic preference. Show me an AI that has emotions. Show me an AI that’s chosen to make sacrifices to produce its art. AI cannot produce art. Images are not intrinsically art. Sound is not intrinsically art. Art requires thought and intent. AI is not capable of either.
Humans are not the center of the universe. There is nothing intrinsically magical in being a human. Humans don't have soul. We were not created in "God"'s image. We are not special. We are just like other animals and continuously evolving. AI is just the next step in the evolution. All the emotion serve as a shortcut for behaviors that make evolutionary sense. Things suck before they get better and then keep on getti…
100% atheist here. Humans are the center of my universe, and humans are special to me. I'm team human. I don't care if AI is the next step in the evolution, I would absolutely kill it if necessary to save humanity.
Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
These strike me as momentary throes from a technological/cultural realignment. Back in the day there were tons of people who were totally opposed to the rising genre of "electronic" music. Today you couldn't call electronic music "not music" without drawing the ire of lots of people. In the same vein, people opposed the internet, digital drawing tablets, digital cameras. AI is interesting because it can be use to "ju…
I don't think the parallel quite fits. There's always resistance to new genres of music. Rock'n'roll was considered evil, a bad influence on children, by the establishment of its day. People didn't like electronic music because they thought it wasn't creative enough, and that it was just "noise". AI generated music -- at least the current iteration of it -- is different. For the most part it's created in order to flo…
It's maybe not a great fit, but early home console video games were garbage until Nintendo led by example.
Even if this doesn't look the same as other new tech, it still rhymes with a lot that's happened to us before.
Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#77It’s ridiculous that YouTube doesn’t allow blocking of channels. I find the prevalence of fake movie trailers to be absolutely infuriating, and I do not understand why YouTube and the IP holders don’t nuke those channels, or at least let people block them!
YouTube fundamentally does not respect the time or attention of users - even if you pay for YouTube Premium. The only way I can stomach YT at this point is with blocktube and unhook; I can disable parts of the interface, block channels and content individually or with regular expressions, and filter comments with regex - a necessity given how many scams are being run right now. I dread the day they drop RSS feeds for…
uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock are also fundamental for being able to tolerate YouTube.
Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's always interesting to see how people use a site entirely differently from myself. I've only used YouTube to find a specific song/artist, so the only search result I'd click on is what I was looking for. From there, the recommendations are surprisingly decent. Do you usually search for a genre or something?
Is there a reason that you don't use YouTube Music for this?
Yeah, nothing makes me go to YouTube Music. Usually, if I'm listening to music on YouTube, it's because a YouTube video of a song came up in a search. If I was on YouTube already, then I had just used the search bar there. If I wasn't, the search engine wouldn't send me to YouTube Music. For music in general, I just use Spotify.
I can't be that weird about using music on YouTube rather than YouTube Music, the post shows someone doing the same thing.
Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a reason that you don't use YouTube Music for this?
Yeah, nothing makes me go to YouTube Music. Usually, if I'm listening to music on YouTube, it's because a YouTube video of a song came up in a search. If I was on YouTube already, then I had just used the search bar there. If I wasn't, the search engine wouldn't send me to YouTube Music. For music in general, I just use Spotify. I can't be that weird about using music on YouTube rather than YouTube Music, the post sh…
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you're weird, I was just wondering.
Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
#80If you manage to curate a large enough collection of AI-generated playlists, would you consider putting it on Kaggle? This way, others could use it to train AI models to automatically detect AI-generated music. We did something similar by sharing a dataset of around 7,000 AI-generated fake podcasts on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fak...
This is amazing and I think deserves a thread of its own.