dillymint.bsky.social
Lifelong learner. Disillusioned Socialist. Neurodiverse. Educator.
Family, music, photography, politics, community. Integrity, empathy, truth.
A bit sweary. A lot sparkly.
Scouser in Cornwall, for love 〓〓
PT X refugee. #FBPE #FBPR #FuckTheTories #NotMyKing
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Ah, the ‘starving artist’ bollocks.
Perhaps job centre staff need a training course to help them avoid making ludicrous judgments based on stereotypes.
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Love this!
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😊
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Thank you 😊
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Thank you.
I did get seen in the end. Oxygen and drugs got things under control and I’m back home now, with antibiotics and a plan for several days rest.
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Thank you.
I did get seen in the end. Oxygen and drugs got things under control and I’m back home now, with antibiotics and a plan for several days rest.
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AI proved itself to be a useful tool. But that’s all it was, or can ever be.
Art - whether music, poetry, literature, painting, acting or many of the other creative pursuits - are, ultimately, an expression of human experience. That’s something AI will never have.
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It’s only a human that can e.g. effectively deliver a lyric about sledging, because it’s only a human that can draw on their experience of the thrill of speeding down a hill, or feeling the biting cold of the snow, and that experience - authenticity - is crucial for producing good music imo.
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While there is software out there that can produce audio, it’s not even close to being the same as human musicians. Humans are needed for nuance and authenticity.
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So far so good. Sort of.
ChatGPT can undoubtably create, but it needed help and was only as good as the info a human - me - gave it.
What’s lacking though, is artistry. AI might do a perfectly fine job of writing something (in partnership with a human) but music is supposed to be heard.
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While AI did create something, it needed to do it in partnership with a human - me.
E.g. I asked for a higher vocal harmony (my creativity). The actual harmony was written by AI (its creativity).
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So:
Did AI create something new? Yes.
Did it just rearrange other existing ideas? Yes, but that’s what musicians do anyway - we take existing conventions and rearrange them in new ways.
Was it a substitute for human creativity? That’s where it gets interesting.
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After a great deal of ‘Now can you add X’ (higher vocal harmony, rhythms, etc, etc), I ended up with something that fulfilled all my specific requirements and wasn’t bad at all (notwithstanding some lyric tweaks from me).
Using just the info it gave me, I was able to notate it.
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I also needed to specifically ask for (in no particular order):
Chords
Melody
Vocal harmony
Rhythm
Dynamics
The more info I gave it, the better the song got.
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I asked it to write a Christmas song. Its first attempt was pants, but that had more to do with what I hadn’t specified than anything else.
I needed to tell it (in no particular order):
In the style of
Form
Tempo
Metre
Vocal range
Emotion
Instrumentation/voicing
Genre conventions
Key
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Same place and same day of the months screams ritual offering. So, off to Google I go…
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I include me in this:
Get off social media and get out into the real world.
It’s what we used to do - talk to people irl, protest, etc.
These days we say what we need to say in the little digital box, maybe vent a bit, and think it’s enough. It isn’t.
SM is easy to ignore. Physical people aren’t.
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Sounds delish.
If you fancy a change, garam masala instead of just nutmeg is lovely.
I’ll give just nutmeg a try :)
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Good work! 🙌🏻
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Thank you :)
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Fab - thank you :)
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Brilliant - thank you :)
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Thank you :)