Zach WeinersmithNow and then there's a headline about an AI musician going huge on some platform. For me the most fascinating thing is that when this happens, and I look up their album or singles, their songs are almost identical. Not like when you say "all of ACDC's songs are the same." Like, they're just tons of tiny variations. Check e.g. the singles by the AI named Eddie Dalton.
Or there was another popular one called Breaking Rust, I believe, who was a sort of modern hardcore country singer. Nearly every song began with him humming, in the same cadence, followed by the same bluesy percussion. And all were some variation on the theme of being a tough guy who doesn't care about other people's opinions. Like, dozens of these songs.
And with this sort of thing I always wonder whether it's that they're (a) gaming the system, or (b) discovered something humans actually wanted all along, in some sense, but which artists would've never produced.
I mean maybe we really just want Oasis to play 83 slight variations on Wonderwall, but they wouldn't.
Frosch B@b_age I dunno, like, some of these are really popular as far as I can tell. And, in my experience, people who aren't into this stuff can't tell AI from real. Or, just aren't trying to.
@ZachWeinersmith to be honest, i can't really tell, i don't listen to that kind of stuff. i just can't imagine people are that ... gullible? there must be some rigging involved
@b_age For me the AI voice tech is still not there. Like it really sticks out. But maybe if I didn't know it was AI and it just came on spotify I wouldn't notice?
@ZachWeinersmith i already disliked mainstream-, radio-style music before "AI" came up, so i don't have a good base for comparisation but still think i can recognise that generated stuff, because it being so arbitrary, exchangable