Alex

ELIZA could.

It’s arguably even better as an adult so definitely watch it if you haven’t already.

Sure, Satya Nadella, let’s get you to bed.

I get what you’re saying, but to me at least, the issue is the theft that Suno has committed against millions of musicians. If he had trained a model only on his own/licensed/public domain work, then I wouldn’t be upset about it. In fact, I remember from back before the current hype bubble creatives using small generative models trained on their own work as fun little art projects.

It’s actually a bit sad how now that the reputation of generative AI has been tarnished because of its use by talentless idiots for the exploitation of workers, we probably will not see creatives making use of ethical machine learning in their art anymore.

Here are his own words on the matter. From what I can find, it doesn’t seem he acknowledges/understands the issue of the training data being stolen from non-consenting musicians.

Some related personal thoughts (and feel free to disregard them, they’re probably ignorant): As someone without much of an ear for music, this stuff sounds like the same generic instrumental songs that computers were generating even before the current hype bubble.

I remember watching the CGP Grey video Humans Need Not Apply back in the day, and it was using AI background music even then (2015), albeit only to prove a point. The only real differences between then and now is that 1) modern models can generate songs in more genres and also generate (bad) vocals, and only because it’s been fed the entirety of humanity’s musical history rather than being trained only on licensed data, and 2) the hype bubble is releasing countless music generators and getting tons of non-musical people posting their generated stuff online, often with the intention of making a quick buck.

Would I have been able to tell that these songs were made my a machine? Probably not. But as I said, I don’t have an ear for music and would’ve just figured they were made by a mediocre composer. I’d say that’s the biggest difference for all creative things nowadays. Back before LLMs, I would’ve assumed it was a sloppy writer, artist, musician, etc. rather than a slop machine.

It’s also funny how, given enough generations, slop machines can sometimes churn out something passable or even half-decent. Gives major infinite monkey typewriter energy. It would’ve been an interesting phenomenon to study if it wasn’t so energy-wasteful, trained on stolen data, and used by executives to oppress workers. Alas, in a better timeline.

Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering, the CGP Grey video ain’t great, though it is interesting to look back at and see how AI hype looked in the mid-2010s compared to now.

What getting c*cked by Mikhaila Peterson does to a mfer.

I’ll forever be thankful this shit didn’t exist when I was growing up. As a depressed autistic child without any friends, I can only begin to imagine what LLMs could’ve done to my mental health.

To quote astrophysicist Angela Collier, quantum quantum quantum

hot AI girls are on track to remove a lot of men from the mating pool

Can’t remove them if they were never in it.

Obligatory Earthling Ed video.

Rainbow, an Italian animation studio known for making Winx Club, is looking to hire a prompt engineer :-) Had I been Italian I would be considering applying if only to stop them from trying to sell NFTs and whitewashing their characters.

A bit of old news but that is still upsetting to me.

My favorite artist, Kazuma Kaneko, known for doing the demon designs in the Megami Tensei franchise, sold his soul to make an AI gacha game. While I was massively disappointed that he was going the AI route, the model was supposed to be trained solely on his own art and thus I didn’t have any ethical issues with it.

Fast-forward to shortly after release and the game’s AI model has been pumping out Elsa and Superman.

VIDEOGAME.ai

Gotta love how the website isn’t even functional.