True. Lazy people will employ any tools to avoid having an original thought. AI can only enhance what is already there. It won't create what can't be imagined or appreciated.
Design is just the planning part of art. Art itself is pure expression. People make art all the time without understanding their own process or meaning to profit off their work.
I say this as a software programmer who has to hear tech bros talking about how AI will change everything constantly.
This captures why this AI “art” stuff isn’t art- it’s missing the soul because it’s just the planning part. I do think AI can be useful to help augment your own creativity. But it is not creativity itself (said as a musician, who has run an AI startup and currently works on music tech).
My opinion? I don’t believe in a soul. State of play, it is a tool. In the right hands, it helps create stunning artworks… background plates, reference, storyboards, even paintings. ChatGPT makes me a better writer, it shows me structure and phrasing that I am missing, it is eminently useful.
Labor in general, honestly. There is no such thing as "unskilled labor" and AI cannot solve social problems that humans are not willing to understand and appreciate. It would be nice if the focus was on using technology to reduce barriers for workers rather than attempting to replace them.
I can say this much for certain; the folks that I currently work with on a daily basis aren't sharp enough to use standard software best practices including testing code and automating/documenting processes. I am under no illusion that they can build AI to replace themselves.
Is bold or stupid for a company to seek trouble with Disney of all possible right holders?
Is this even a real company or is it a vehicle to get a judge to rule something against Disney?
Given the multi-billion dollar series of lawsuits that are currently against pretty much every Catholic diocese in America, I'm willing to bet $3 that it's impossible to actually get real holy water in America.
Holy water is typically water that has been blessed by priests, but if the priests are corrupt then it follows their holy water doesn't have any holiness in it
somehow its interesting that looking at this thumbnail on my small phone at arm's length without being able to read the text i could already tell the pic was AI
so yeah on the one hand they clearly want to honk off to children given how many child faces they put on everything and on the other hand AI art has not yet been able to make an image that doesnt somehow look slimy
do you remember xtranormal? the animation looks like that but now with extra uncanny valley. with lyrics written by begging chatgpt to be a really really good songwriter
Remember, nothing made with AI can hold copyright so if this abomination actually comes up with something half good. Steal it and make a better version.
is anyone else noticing like the song is literally about betrayal like hmm could they have gone with something a bit less on the nose like 'I love layoffs'
historically speaking, 45 year old men DO make "music" just as poorly, but it only gets any attention if they pick up a teenage girl off the street to record and perform it, or grow one themselves in the lab
I like that whoever made this clearly spent a long time on the aesthetic of their song parody generator waifu but no time at all on an even vaguely real looking mic shock mount and cables. The xlr isn't even plugged in?!?
no, see, that's part of the aesthetic, it's like those pics of "gamer girls" from the early '00s and twenty-teens, when someone would take dramatic sexy pictures of them sitting in front of TVs, staring intently at the screen with controllers that were turned off or weren't plugged in 🤣
They just want to make Hot Women where it's very clear that there's no adult mind attached. It's about sex robots, violence, and consent at the end of the day imho....
(Maybe not literally, could be subconscious, buuuut it's also quite often literal)
I did this using Fortran on an IBM 1130 with 8K of iron-magnet-core RAM and a 16K removable disk drive in 1973. The program generated counterpoint, played it on a radio tuned to the RF the CPU generated (using a subroutine someone else wrote), and printed out the staff notation on a plotter.
Magnetic core memory was amazing! They actually employed knitting circles in Poughkeepsie, New York, to thread the wires though the little core magnets.
Primitive.
But those computers were used to design and build the tiny gigabyte phones we have today.
I watched an IBM repairman replace one of the panels, and it was so cool to see those tiny magnets in the wire mesh. I learned to program in Fortran, Basic, and assembly language on that machine.
It was at my undergraduate college. For some reason, even though I was just a student, they allowed me to commandeer the machine for my plaything at off hours. I used the music project for my computer class and my music class. Got an A+ for it in both classes.
I'm not sure if the conversation is even all about the role of AI in art, I think it's also about *humans* role in art.
The strongest callback for me here is a combination of Rebecca Black and Paris Hilton. It used to take a bloodless production company or an heiress to make anything this bad.
"betrayed by this town" ahhh yes a small town song about blue collar workers who didn't invest enough into their 401k and have thus made their AI demi-god so angry that it deploys Michelle blandch here to annoy us to death
For some reason the idea of an AI “songwriter’s” first song being called “Betrayed By This Town” is so fucking funny to me. Not a TSwift sad love song but MY TOWN HAS TURNED ON ME. Someone said it’s about blue-collar workers but in my head it’s about torch-wielding villagers hating her for being hot
Boy band music still has some form of creative expression done by actual human beings. Whether it's any good is up for debate, but they're clearly not the same thing.
I like that they advertise the key, tempo, and chord progression as being AI generated, as if that means something more interesting than a random number generator
also, she looks weirdly both 13 and 30 years old. i guess that's the true magic of ai: spawning artificial "women" with features previously only found on dudes.
"All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, [...] form profound attachments to, and whose respect [...] and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men." ~ Marily Frye
Every two months some smoothbrain thinks they’re the first person to do a Sharon Apple or Hatsune Miku and expects to be congratulated for being a visionary for what is invariably the most off-putting vaguely pedophilic airbrushed doll the world has ever seen
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
[AI chooses sea chanty for some reason] “I’m sorry I said every racist thing under the sun / you’re all a bunch of [AI switches to misogynistic shit instead] so now let’s go have fun.”
Trying to take this a seriously as possible, the logical conclusion for this is record execs trying to give Anna notes, and slowly but inexorably just writing the song they want, except it takes much longer, and they end up doing all the work
I would like to substitute “electrons” for AI in my previous engagement. We all know what each other are talking about in regard to these tools. How dare I save keystrokes by typing AI. Look upon my content and DESPAIR.
Finally, we can automate awful boring tasks like singing and making music, so we have more time to spend on fun things like manual labor at the cruelty factory.
And of all the things to focus on, their focus is on art, music, and video, when their actual focus should be on video games because the video game industry is orders of magnitude more financially profitable than the art music and video scene combined.
For the youngsters, lyrics from MacNamara’s Band:
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And Henessee Tennessee tootles the flute and the music is something grand
A credit to old Ireland is MacNamara's band
It's TERRIBLE. Her voice is ghastly. The meter's bad. The music is inspidly awful. She sounds like an autotuned Alexa and looks like someone's nightmare visual concept of a human teenager. Her inflection makes the WarGames computer sound like it's ready for Shakespeare ffs.
I'd love to ask the creators of this who this is for. like what's the audience here. is this exclusively aimed at AI and crypto weirdos, or are they imagining masses of people who crave procedurally generated music that nobody could be bothered to write?
Honestly, they should add a “seen” button for exactly these reasons. Feels bad to throw a “like” on someone posting “my grandma just got into a hit and run with some guy whipping deer to pull his sled 😢”
This looks like Mila Kunis suffered a traumatic brain injury as a child before she became a victim of sex trafficking and now Barbara Walters is sitting her down for a re-traumatizing interview.
There are also dozens of 'sexworker' Twitter accounts run by 'AI models', that are actually administered by dorky dudes in their moms' basements (and corporations, most likely.)
They're using a plagiarism machine to generate pop music? Like, the industry notorious for massive lawsuits over accidental and incidental similarities between songs? Those are the lawyers they want to poke with a digital stick?
I don’t know what bothers me more, the Uncanny Valley, bordering on Grimwade's Syndrome unnaturalness to it, the innate revulsion of removing a human from making art, or that they made their programmable robot girl look about 14.
What’s funny is that on X people find this amazing, and here, I read only real comments about how bad it is (and it’s baaaad). Thank you for sharing a silent screenshot of this atrocity :)
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—Hayao Miyazaki
I say this as a software programmer who has to hear tech bros talking about how AI will change everything constantly.
Fight me 😌
Is this even a real company or is it a vehicle to get a judge to rule something against Disney?
I predict, if AI takes over creative venues, there will be a huge resurgence of live theater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GnHI60T6cA
"People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share"
"The Ultimate Melody" by Arthur C. Clarke vs Anna Indiana
*gif of Michael Scott saying "no!" a lot*
This one is a lot creepier looking though
(Maybe not literally, could be subconscious, buuuut it's also quite often literal)
How?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Primitive.
But those computers were used to design and build the tiny gigabyte phones we have today.
It was published the same year all of academia was switching to Vax.
You know, because of all the fingers
The strongest callback for me here is a combination of Rebecca Black and Paris Hilton. It used to take a bloodless production company or an heiress to make anything this bad.
The tempo *and* the rhythm?
:/
It feels like it's begging for the sweet release of the power button.
And flips her hair
She got a whole bunch of nothing in there”
— Count Zero, William Gibson
Interesting part was the lyrics it chose leaned homicidal. 👀
Ramona Arizona?
Hennessy Tennessee?
AI has no imagination and is creepy.
Virginia West Virginia
Rhonda Florida
Georgia Georgia
I'ma Ho Idaho
I’m stealing that.
Adele Idaho
Alana Illinois
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And Henessee Tennessee tootles the flute and the music is something grand
A credit to old Ireland is MacNamara's band
I hate all of it
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They're using a plagiarism machine to generate pop music? Like, the industry notorious for massive lawsuits over accidental and incidental similarities between songs? Those are the lawyers they want to poke with a digital stick?
There's not enough popcorn in the world....
There’s nothing good here.