🧵 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.
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Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives
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
The music literally hits all the right notes. And it's why RIAA and a bunch of studios and music groups are suing the AI services that people are using to make these songs for theft.
It's a valid concern. But on the other hand, so much popular music is already mechanized w/autotune & beats.
And if you are a musician who doesn't fit the corporate mold, you'll never get anywhere unless the algorithm gods rescue you.
In a study commissioned by Deezer, 80% of respondents said they wanted AI music to be labeled as such. But only 45 percent said that they would automatically filter out AI tracks.
According to Deezer, 35% of daily uploads are entirely AI-generated.
So what do the ppl who make AI music say?
Telisha Jones, the creator of a No. 1 R&B persona named Xania Monet says that she writes all of the lyrics herself, and that's what people like.
All of this raises lots of questions, where does art live, and do people even agree on that?
It seems that many people value art for how it makes them feel, while the history and the struggle of the artist are what attracts others.
Should only beautiful people be allowed to make music?
Must history, conception, technique, execution, and performance all be conjoined? What is art for? Are the feelings we derive from it any less real depending on its circumstances?
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Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives
I mean, it's needle drop.
Like, don't get me wrong: there's a composer who makes a couple hundred thousand a year literally listening to this and shitting their pants, but I listened to as much as I could stand (about a minute) and it was just needle drop.
You know - generic, unimaginative, cheap-o background music. Trite, formulaic, expected, sterile.
You play it behind the DeVry University commercial because they refuse to pay for real music.
Needle drop.
"AI" is *garbage technology* that is *derivative*, as in everything it makes is straight-up derived from something(s) human beings made.
When you try to train them on other "AI" created stuff they break. Badly.
Because they're *garbage* that makes *generic, averaged-out garbage*. For the low, low cost of all of your freshwater, global agriculture, and the future of your kids.
And yes - there are lots of people who cannot distinguish needle drop. Taste, amirite?
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Matthew Sheffield
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