Comment by beepbooptheory
2 days ago
Cf. Holly Herndon's album Proto.
This is something people spent a lot of time on, is trained lovingly on only their own stuff, and makes for some great music.
It's "AI" but in an almost unrecognizable way to us now: its not attached to some product, and its not about doing special prompting. It is definitely pop/electronic music, but it follows from a tradition of experimentation between what we can control and what we can't, which is here their bespoke stochastic program.
It is not about how the computer or the model enables us, which is so silly. (As if art is simply about being able to do something or not!) Its about doing something with the pieces you have that only those pieces can do.
Holly Herndon's music is original and creative. Unlike most LLM-generated pastiche text, picture or music.
And since it's from 2019, it's not quite the same thing. I like it, unlike the current wave of unwanted LLM slop.
It's original. Of course if 1000 people were doing the same with minimal creative effort and passing it off as something else, that would ruin it.
Gotcha thanks!
For instance Frontier (1) or Eternal (2)
I get Kate Bush and Dead Can Dance vibes, filtered through a mechanical chorus with a bit of glitched breakbeats.
It's empathically not the forgettable, bland averaged pastiches that LLMS emit on lazy command. Even if it's not your favourite, I'm sure that it's something.
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvNqNgHAEys
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sROgbaeOs