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.
trekkie1701c@ZachWeinersmith If they're lying about making the music, why not lie about who listens to it? They're looking for an easy, no effort out in making a thing; they don't actually care about the creative process, they just want the end product.
And part of that end product is popular success. Building an audience is hard, but there are so many services to game statistics and so many ways to fudge numbers. Like, make a book of your comics and sell a quintillion ebooks to someone for a penny. Congrats! You now have the best selling media in history. Sure, that's a bit of a stretch of an example, but I think you get the idea.