Comment by FridgeSeal
3 months ago
> He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone
Stand by then, because I have rocks and according to you, licence to throw them.
You are free to watch all the slop you want. All I want is for your slop, to not be at the cost of all other media and content. Have a SlopTube, have SlopFlix, go for it! But do it in a way that is _separate_ and doesn’t inflict it on the rest of us, who would _like_ human produced content, even if the AI stuff is “just as good”.
Your later point is hard to convey to people who don't want to hear it.
I don't want AI content, even if it is as good, or even if it were better. The human element IS the point, not an implementation detail.
An AI song about sailing at sea is meaningless because I know the AI has never sailed at sea. This is a standard we hold humans to, authenticity is important even for human artists, why would we give AI a pass on it?
And I mean this earnestly, if an AI in a corporeal form really did go sailing, I might then be interested in its song about sailing.
> An AI song about sailing at sea is meaningless because I know the AI has never sailed at sea.
Human singers often sing about topics they have no authentic experience with. Some pop singers exclusively sing songs written by other people.
You're entitled to dislike AI music, but I think your attempt to justify this dislike doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I don't really want to get pedantic about this, but I also don't listen to pop and authenticity in lyrics is important to me. But authenticity in creation is just as important, I listen to a lot of music with no lyrics at all and it is important to me that it was borne of someone's creative experience.
Regardless of any of that, I could also say that I don't like AI music because I prefer my artists to have hot showers and it's somewhat none of your business, respectfully.
HackerNews holds AI to much higher standards than humans. In other news, water is wet.
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> And I mean this earnestly, if an AI in a corporeal form really did go sailing, I might then be interested in its song about sailing.
Would you? That seems achievable with current technology, bolt a PC with a camera onto a sailing ship and prompt it to compose text based on some image recognition.
For sure, I wouldn't read it as if it were a human story though since I can relate and empathise with the human. But it would be interesting to see what kind of experience it had and how it records and explains it.
For it to have meaning it would have to be an AI without prior experience or knowledge of sailing embedded into its systems.
Just let me choose a filter when I'm doing a search on YouTube and that's a good start. Beyond that I can just block or 'don't recommend this channel' for anything that shows up in my feed, but the fact that these platforms don't let people say 'I don't want this garbage' is the biggest issue I have with it.
No, you get your separate HumanTube.