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from the is-it-live-or-is-it-Auto-Tune? dept.
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve has become a woke, sanitized shell of its former self. The crowd of rowdy, inebriated locals and tourists is long gone. What you see now is bouncing and screaming for the latest flash-in-the-pan artists while industry veterans like Duran Duran barely elicit a cheer.
Youtuber and music industry veteran Rick Beato recently posted an interesting video on how Auto-Tune has destroyed popular music. Beato quotes from an interview he did with Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan where the latter stated, "AI systems will completely dominate music. The idea of an intuitive artist beating an AI system is going to be very difficult." AI is making inroads into visual art as well, and hackers, artists and others seem to be embracing it with enthusiasm.
AI seems to be everywhere lately, from retrofitting decades old manufacturing operations to online help desk shenanigans to a wearable assistant to helping students cheat. Experts are predicting AI to usher in the next cyber security crisis and the end of programming as we know it.
Will there be a future where AI can and will do everything? Where artists are judged on their talents with a keyboard/mouse instead of a paintbrush or guitar? And what about those of us who will be developing the systems AI uses to produce stuff? Will tomorrow's artist be the programming genius who devises a profound algorithm that can produce stuff faster, or more eye/ear-appealing, where everything is completely computerized and lacking any humanity? Beato makes a good point in his video on auto-tune, that most people don't notice when something has been digitally altered, and quite frankly, they don't care either.
Will the "purists" among us be disparaged and become the new "Boomers"? What do you think?.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday January 09 2023, @08:09PM (1 child)
I can't wait to see an "AI" generated move or TV show. When its only feedback input is how many purchase and advertising dollars it rakes in, it is sure to find the most addictive formula possible that applies to the widest group of people.
Actually, I may have some idea of what that is like already. My downstairs neighbor leaves this weird shit running on her TV. I have no idea if there is video with it, if you aren't listening it just sounds like a TV show or movie, but sometimes she leaves it up so loud I can hear the dialog.
I won't claim to have any idea what it is, but it sounds like an endless stream of babble, much like what an AI would pump out. Except every other word is "fuck". The genera can change every few minutes, sometimes it can sound like people arguing, other times like laughing party conversations, other times like a comedy, other times like a movie along with dramatic bits of music. Once I think I even heard it reading an instruction manual. But it mixes in the word "fuck" with everything.
I think she uses this to cover up her conversations on her cell phone. (Which also mostly consists of "fuck", "fucking", "fuck me", and so on)
The line from whatever this was that really floored me was when it took a sci-fi genera and there was some male voice explaining how to solve some complex technical problem in this long run-on sentence that went nowhere and described nothing specific. When it finished, a sexy female voice jumped in saying "Time's up! Lets fuck!".
Or is this just what streaming TV is like these days?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2023, @07:32AM