Matthew Sheffield1d ago

🧵 AI-generated soul music by "Eddie Dalton" is taking over iTunes, YouTube, and Spotify--raising the question of where humans think beauty and art lives.

Software-made music has gotten so good now that 97 percent of people cannot differentiate it from human-made music.
https://plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalton-isnt-real-but-what-does

Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean?

Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives

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Show threadMatthew Sheffield1d ago

Eddie Dalton had 3 of the top 5 Apple Music songs, and all of the songs released on YouTube have hundreds of thousands of views within just days.

People absolutely love it.

"This song has touched the depth of my soul," one listener wrote on YouTube.

You can listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5FSZzm-k8

Another Day Old (Official Lyric Video)

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@mattsheffield

Sorry, sounds awful. No soul.

Show threadMatthew Sheffield1d ago

@mastodonmigration Is that because you know it's AI though? Given that 97% of people cannot tell the difference, what if you didn't know the context?

There's so much formulaic music made by assembly lines of people who stitch the components together and then the singer is auto-tuned to hell while singing it.

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@mattsheffield

Not saying it is worse than human generated formulaic music, but it has no creative depth. It's just bland.

Show threadMatthew Sheffield

@mastodonmigration I don't see it as any worse than most of the drek produced by the music industry.

I do think though that the prevalence of AI music is going to make concerts much more of a thing.

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