A.I. Is Here! What's your opinion?

I know I'm probably really late to the party, but I just stumbled across an artist from Finland who creates all AI generated music in the styles of old artists. His project is called Unreal Rock Songshttps://unrealrocksongs.bandcamp.com/ He's also very prominent and increasingly prolific on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@unrealrocksongs

The music is really good--really clean, professional, and nuanced though with a modern production "austerity"--and it's all original and all AI! Part of me wants to run for the hills, but part of me is intrigued--and entertained! I guess I'm finding out that my bottom line is: I just like good music! I want to promote hard-working musicians who are striving to create great music, but now if you can have ChatGPT do it for you . . . why not?

What are your thoughts and feelings?

Edited by BrufordFreak - 5 hours 56 minutes ago at 06:09

What Greg said...

I will not view AI art or listen to AI music. I don't fear it. I just have no interest in it whatsoever. A huge part of "art" for me is a human connection. I want to preserve that link between humans, and I only want to "consume" the feelings and creativity of other humans, as old-fashioned as that may be. For that reason, I just choose not to even start with AI. I don't care if it's "good" or not. There is so much great human art to appreciate that one can only scratch the surface over a whole lifetime.

That channel is de facto a scam. Yep. You heard me right. Scam. If you go to their bandcamp, you'll see that they're actually selling this content.

I can play Devil's Advocate here, sure. I can see it as a toy. But as soon as monetizing this type of content comes into play, that's a red flag for me.

Edited by Hrychu - 3 hours 56 minutes ago at 08:09

Hi,

The side of it all is how some corporate folks want to replace people (employees) with some AI, figuring that it would cost less ... and I think there may be a comment on this idea. As Frank Zappa said ... "there has to be a song somewhere in there!"

1. The company got too big!

2. The code artist doing this is getting back at the company that would not hire him/her and pay them!

3. The whole idea is not exactly honest, as far as I can tell, and the music example above is scary ... and reminds me of that computer thing in California at one time, that folks thought was really good, until a couple of days later, they were told it was a computer ... and the hatred started up! Nobody ever heard from that group again, and what they did, and I would not be surprised if they lost all kinds of grants and moneys.

4. The educational value of teaching MUSIC in schools is gone. Specially in America where one political party has spent the last 50 years taking money away from all the arts and making sure that it is not available in the schools, since the arts are often known to be too liberal for that group's politics, and chances of winning more elections ... so they rely on folks not "knowing" or not "having" any idea of what the arts can do and have done for many years in the Western World ... this is not the case in a few other places where the arts are heavily controlled.

5. Our own understanding and appreciation for the knowledge that it took to create the AI, is a problem ... we now see it as a problem, when before it was exciting research!

6. One guy in busking in the big house, will immediately replace people/employees with AI, because in the end it is cheaper ... and that turkey thinks that the AI will not need regular maintenance and work. Very naive in my book, but this is more about "control" and the "power" of being so rich that no one can stop it any more, and on top of it, the media loves it, because he likely owns a serious percentage of it anyway! Same thing happened when Disney picked up ESPN, and the fun went out the window within the year ... we all watched ESPN for the fun and the antics ... and all of a sudden it was cheap jokes, and dry, cold and boring news ... and no fun!

7. The grass is always greener on the other side, and hate it or not, we will not go to the polls and get rid of the folks making sure that the AI folks get in to the big houses!

8. Go ahead and hate it ... what are you doing about it?

Edited by moshkito - 1 hour 32 minutes ago at 10:33