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.
Petra van Cronenburg@ZachWeinersmith We don't know if such clicks are generated by real human fans or by bots, only curious people, or something else.
My physiotherapist plays such slop for a calming atmosphere because he can't afford the high royalties the collecting organisms take from therapeuts. You can hear it, it's like blubbering mud. No breathtaking, no different emotions in the "voices".
Patients accept it because we know that therapeuts are so badly paid (France). Many clicks. 1/2
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My physiotherapist plays such slop for a calming atmosphere because he can't afford the high royalties the collecting organisms take from therapeuts. You can hear it, it's like blubbering mud. No breathtaking, no different emotions in the "voices".
Patients accept it because we know that therapeuts are so badly paid (France). Many clicks. 1/2
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Daniel Gibson@NatureMC @ZachWeinersmith @b_age
is streaming real music more expensive than slop on spotify? I thought it was a flatrate?
or are there streaming services for therapists with different pricing models?
@Doomed_Daniel If you play music in public, independent from the technics, you have to declare and pay it at GEMA. They are a collecting organism for (real human) musicians.
There are laws for playing music in public. A therapist's rooms or a clinic are not private.
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There are laws for playing music in public. A therapist's rooms or a clinic are not private.
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GEMA also exists in France? I thought it was German
How does it work? If you stream random playlists, do you really have to keep track of the actual music played and report that to GEMA? What if you play oldschool radio?
@Doomed_Daniel Please read Wikipedia about it. There are different collecting organisms depending on the countries. Yes, GEMA is German, in France we have the SACEM. You find their rules on their websites. @ZachWeinersmith @b_age