Post AhQBo2GAaAsi2ESZqS by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AhPnjCXIYBQXYgdLY8 by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T13:23:07Z
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This is probably just the communities I'm in, but it feels like whereas AI art had a fairly serious backlash, AI music has not? Is this your impression?
(DIR) Post #AhPnjD3YcFEPAjj6pc by john@sauropods.win
2024-04-30T13:28:01Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Certainly people talk about it a lot less. Off the top of my head, I don't know where to make it, whereas I can think of plenty of places to make images. So maybe it's just because people aren't coming across it much?If I wrote music for ads for a living I'd be worried though!
(DIR) Post #AhPpCxSjG54nRxFWl6 by blindcoder@toot.berlin
2024-04-30T13:23:41Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Yes, and it's weeeeeeird.
(DIR) Post #AhPqMeB1ur3mUG9enA by codeslave@mstdn.social
2024-04-30T13:57:31Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Autotune and bland corporate tastes have already done a number on the music industry, so AI really can't make it much worse.
(DIR) Post #AhPqSWD4RyyVVzuQVc by draeath@social.sdf.org
2024-04-30T13:58:34Z
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@ZachWeinersmith AI is showing up in music production software, but so far it's a tool to be used for specific tasks and not a replacement for the artist.So far.I think you're more likely to see, say, mixing or mastering replaced by an AI before the whole process - I've seen products for that already - but that's been a thing before the AI craze (presumably with more classic programming methods).For example, I think FL Studio's cloud subscription includes AI-assisted mastering.
(DIR) Post #AhPqrQsFQTKYCp373I by Phosphenes@glasgow.social
2024-04-30T14:03:06Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I think it's about money. Remember when sampling had everyone upset? If AI music appears on the radio it'll be the same thing. BTW I don't hate it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYW_J3FwaUI
(DIR) Post #AhPqwxeyxJWXL0TrUm by Sqlgene@techhub.social
2024-04-30T13:23:57Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Have we seen any commercial entities using AI music in commercial products? It's been happening in plenty of places with AI art.
(DIR) Post #AhPqwyGugHrhEeE9cO by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T13:25:16Z
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@Sqlgene Oh, interesting, so you think it's more about whether we can observe artists being replaced by corporations?
(DIR) Post #AhPqwys8Rtdh65dsdU by eichin@mastodon.mit.edu
2024-04-30T14:04:10Z
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@ZachWeinersmithMaybe a little of "visual artists are actually having money stolen from them, musicians never made any money in the first place" in that too...@Sqlgene
(DIR) Post #AhPrt1plaxCv4xDJ6u by LastEquinoxx@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T14:14:40Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Music, to me, has always been less anonymous. It's quite usual on Internet to see art and not know who did it ; it was probably easier to steal, so AI art has been much more prevalent and needed a stronger fight back? I don't think I have heard a lot of AI music; is there as much?Also, due to the music industry as it is now, companies are fighting AI music while none are fighting AI art, afaik.https://www.ft.com/content/b6802c8f-50e7-4df8-8682-cca794881e30
(DIR) Post #AhPsjSxI0HucFijigi by drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social
2024-04-30T14:24:08Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I see a bunch of billboards with AI images but I don't hear any billboards?
(DIR) Post #AhPw1Fkk80N8Nh2boG by oblomov@sociale.network
2024-04-30T15:00:58Z
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@ZachWeinersmith much less used, mostly trained on long-dead artists, longer history of procedural music generation with human-designed (as opposed to “scrape content everywhere”) algorithms. Very different situation.
(DIR) Post #AhPx35WPEqg7BOm2yG by hohokam@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T15:12:28Z
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@ZachWeinersmith i find it hard to tell the difference between AI music and composed music. But I am not a musician and the communities i am in aren't musically inclined. We all claim to be against it, but gun to our heads I don't think we would be able to spot it.I should note that I like synth music, so I might be worse at spotting it than other people.
(DIR) Post #AhQBo1L60NEBBDkzsu by rhritz@mastodon.world
2024-04-30T15:24:06Z
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@szakib @ZachWeinersmith It's impressive in its ability to create coherent stuff from other stuff and would probably pass for the usual bland stuff in commercial radio. Do have a listen when you have the opportunity.None of it is good music, at least for me.
(DIR) Post #AhQBo2GAaAsi2ESZqS by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T17:57:46Z
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@rhritz @szakib Yeah, I'm the wrong person to ask but other than the imperfect singing voices (which are improving), to my ear it's indistinguishable from generic radio stuff, other than occasional glitches. Udio is the other one.
(DIR) Post #AhQD3yCLYEug1dpkjg by gutsquasher@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T18:11:57Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I suspect some of it has to do with the accessibility of these tools. It's easy to prompt for text or photos and with minimal effort publicize that, and even have it seem relatively competent. Doing that for a song is much more difficult.It's important to remember that not all AI tools are created equal. Even the text generators require some significant human intervention to create long format cohesive works.1/2