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Yeah, I make song remixes in the style of a particular video game and while the music is completely human written (by me), I'll often have AI generated or edit the "cover art" for me so people have something to look at/chuckle at.

These videos are still marked as AI, and fairly so; however I don't think that means people should want them hidden :-(

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With music it’s especially bad because people will assume the music itself is AI generated, when in your case it isn’t.

Yes, I'm thinking I'll stop doing it from now on since YouTube doesn't make the distinction.

I figured that LLMs saving me the 20 mins in GIMP making a silly joke filler album cover was the perfect use case... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> however I don't think that means people should want them hidden :-(

Sorry but no, even if the music is great I don't want to hear it if the cover was AI generated, at this point I'd happily accept even a crudely drawn cover because it is human :)

What's the difference between me pasting a face over a body in GIMP manually and me prompting an LLM to make the same edit, faster, and better than I would by hand? They aren't particularly high-effort. The artwork isn't really the point, but I can't just upload a black video...

AI-generated anything sends a message of 'I do not care about quality'. You might feel that that's unfair, but it's the impression you're making on a large segment of your potential audience.

So if I uploaded a black screen, or a black screen with text (the title of the song), that would be sending a message...that I do care about quality...? Since there was no AI?

As opposed to thinking of a play on words between the game/the original song and having an AI make the joke cover per my directions, instead of me just doing it (worse) by hand, which is "I don't care about quality?"

The whole point of the video is not the visual component, it's really just about sharing the non-AI music.

Pretty much, yes. People read no visuals or poor visuals as 'hobbyist who really cares about [other aspect]'; years of experience make it a familiar schema.

They read AI as 'grifter who probably doesn't care about any aspect'.

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