Companies are free to pump as much money into slop pipelines, and I am also free to ignore and block their shit wherever I can. In fact, this only gives me an incentive to support live venues and local performers.
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Ok I'm gonna sound like a conservative. But holy shit the pronouns. No. The only pronoun AI gets is "it". You don't start calling these things he/her. Nope nope nope.
their pronouns are Clanker/tin skin
That's a bit like saying a drawing of a fictional woman is also an it. But it's not, it's a representation of a woman so it's a she.
Just because you don't like ai doesn't mean you get to change how language works. Weaponising language sounds like straight out of the transphobe playbook
You win! You've won the prize for "peak radlib of the week!".
You somehow are so incredibly disconnected from reality and completely tunnel visioned into identity politics that you have just compared a fucking computer generated voice, only possible by the theft of millions of actual artists work, to the real subjugation of trans people!
You are so incredibly intellectually stunted that you couldn't understand the sarcastic tone of my original comment and just saw "pronouns bad" and decided "I must defend against this!"
Wow! You literally tried to act like an image drawn by a person is the same as an image drawn by a computer algorithm that is built from the theft and labor of real artists! Wow!
You did it! You gave conservatives and the growing fascist movements a completely idiotic thing to point and laugh at! Good thing this is just a Lemmy comment and your not in line at your college to debate the next Charlie Kirk.
You officially win the "radlib of the week" title! Amazing! Congratulations!
Ending the sarcasm now.
It's ok. Somehow you have actually fallen onto a good thing to defend against. I would assume from personal experience. But I could be wrong. But trans rights are a great thing to defend. That's awesome. There is hope for you yet.
However, you clearly need to build your defense of it on a stronger foundation. Because, if you really thought that what I said about a fucking AI algorithm was "out of the Transphobia playbook" I think it's clear you're just responding to shapes and colors.
Seriously. Do some reading. You have a ways to go if you don't want to be laughed at from the right and the left.
Edit: also,
"Policing language"? Like calling a trans person the T slur should be shunned? Yeah. It should fucking be. Just like pretending the AI voice, generated from the theft of labor value of countless artist, should be given the pronoun of a living person. Yeah. Fuck that. It's insulting to the artists and it only normalizes the use of that technology benefiting some idiot capitalist that bought the stolen property in the first place.
Do I think they are equally bad? No. But I'm not the one that made that comparison in the first place. You did.
You might be right, but you're still being an arsehole about it.
Least unhinged .ml user.
Boy, what a rant.
pretending the AI voice, generated from the theft of labor value of countless artist, should be given the pronoun of a living person
I get your point, and it's fair to be upset about AI companies pulling some shit, but that's literally how language works and it's a terribly inefficient and petty way to express your disapproval.
It's also a bit weird to belittle someone so harshly for pointing out the parallels of transphobic language despite the logical argument, and then try to use gendered language to belittle a product by going out of your way to call it an it. Like it or not, that's exactly what transphobes do.
AI generated artist
No
It's not an artist, it's a computer program. More to the point, it's a distance measuring type database whose input was the hard work, sweat and tears from real human beings and whose output is a mix of that but lower quality
There is nothing new, nothing inspiring, nothing renewing, it's just as if they took all historical songs and tusees them in a blender and still filtered out the best bits that were left.
There is no singer that can awe you with her extreme vocal range, there is nothing that can touch you on your heart. This is pure ones and zeroes at work, all directed by some asshole who used some mathematical algorithms to figure out what sounds should be combined to make as much money as possible.
That is the crux of it: real artists work hard and mostly starve whilst giving you something from the heart. Managers and record companies would then make money off that (and keep most of it anyway). Now it's just the money makers and they can tune everything just to be the perfect money printer machine.
Over time, expect much, MUCH more of this and yes, real artists will likely mostly disappear because as always, a small group of people like us will protest this and reject it, but the big masses will just lap it up anyways
This is why it's important to patron and support artists.
I disagree that real artists will disappear. Rather I believe that the underground will be more relevant than ever.
All genres are infested with AI generated slop. This is not a race thing or whatever he’s claiming. Did he forget that a couple of months ago the ai rock band Velvet Sundown with fake white dudes was all over the news. Or does it only matter to him when it affects black artists?
Don't punish the behaviour you want to see.
They realised the problem with AI. This is a good thing.
Not sure, but you didn't use this moment to frame this as more people joining the fight. Instead it sounds petty. 🤷♂️
AI slop sucks. The more people thar realize that, the better. Humans are fallible, but I will take them realizing there's a problem once they see it.
You posted this while I was typing a reply and it's funny how similar our comments are lol
Not even close to the first Suno-generated "artist" to do well on streaming and this one was generated by a black woman so I'm not sure what it has to do with the industry being racist
Good example of someone who wasn't paying attention to an issue until it affected them
Good example of someone who wasn’t paying attention to an issue until it affected them
"you're just being alarmist and hyperbolic, that would never happen" -Nearly everyone around me, for the last decade or so
First they came for AI country music, but I did not speak out because I was not a country fan
I did not speak out cause it all sounds the same?
There are many genres that have been mostly the same shit all over again for decades.
Every genre is homogenous if your only exposure to is "the hits"
Slop. Any company that throws slop at us like this should be remembered.
Here is the song if anyone is interested : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWRysTT_PF0&t=73s&pp=2AFJkAIB
Not really my style but it feels like a bunch of tropes rolled into one. Shame because AI can kind of let you push boundaries but this is musically and lyrically just very tame. Simply boring imo.