Comment by roywiggins
2 days ago
They literally thought it was odd and generic, checked, and found it was AI and got pissed off. How is that "emotional cope"? They correctly guessed something was weird about it based on how it sounded!
2 days ago
They literally thought it was odd and generic, checked, and found it was AI and got pissed off. How is that "emotional cope"? They correctly guessed something was weird about it based on how it sounded!
i was moreso responding to this statement:
"What matters is that the song is actually an expression of humanity, not the tools used to make it."
which is complete nonsense
Why do you think it is nonsense?
Making music involves writing and arranging the score, playing the instruments, writing lyrics, singing, recording, mastering... each of these steps is hard work, takes practice, and by that fact alone will be unique to every person because, in some way, their whole life experience flows into it.
GenAI music is writing a few words about how you'd like the result to sound. That's it. That's the entire original contribution. There is no individuality to it beyond that, because it's not someone making music, it's someone deciding about the weights in averaging together existing music that other people have actually worked for.
That's not nonsense to me (and judging from the reaction to this news, neither is it to a large number of music fans). It's an absolutely massive, huge, decisive, qualitative difference.