🧵 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
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
@mattsheffield I can definitely hear AI traces[1], but yeah, they're harder to spot than in average slop 
[1] voice *too indistinguishable* from music. Models are trained on composed tracks, and «average» voice and music by design. Here it's only noticeable at louder parts of lyrics
Matthew Sheffield
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