hallux

I love this. I miss TV from my youth. I often work on our sofa and just have something on our TV from YouTube. This will be the perfect thing to have in the background instead of YT recommendations. I'm gonna put this on now and take a nap.

There is, of course, the possibility that he was being sarcastic.

Well, electricity consumption in Finland will very likely spike tomorrow. People with a certain type of contract for their electricity will actually earn money for using a lot of electricity. Don't know what the implications for the network are, but I don't think such unnatural spikes in consumption are good for it.

There are also a few moments where Alex's voice actor pronounces the a in Prague like the a in brag.

A Criminal Past is a decent expansion by the way! I recently re-installed the game just to play through the expansion again.

This is only my interpretation of things, but I've noticed that people who already listen to music in a way where the music is just "filling a hole" in their sonic space, where the music doesn't get the attention it deserves, where the possible lyrics aren't even paid any attention to, where the artist and the art are never even put together, making separating them from each other a moot point, tend to have a more positive view towards AI-generated music.

They don't spend time analyzing music or the lyrics of a musical piece. They aren't putting the art in the context of the life of the creator, and much less trying to understand the music. They are listening to the music for what it is to them: JUST music.

Contrast this with another way of listening to music, a way that's much closer to my heart than what's described above: imagine the music itself evokes something in you, after that so do the lyrics, after which you decide to read the liner notes, which prompts you to Google something about the artist, because what you found is so interesting that you want to try to figure out WHO is behind the music. Maybe you want to try to learn what in their life prompted them to make the music they did. You might read interviews of the artist, you might watch a documentary – you might be subjected to a totally new world-view because you are getting to know the artist.

One day you come back to the song that prompted all this, and a fragment of the lyrics reminds you of something you read about the artist and it all of a sudden something clicks and you've put the song's lyrics and meaning into a whole new context.

I don't know if I need to say this, but I don't just loathe AI-generated music; I also loathe making music just for music's sake. There's something more in good music than just the music, and I don't want a future where all that's behind the music is a pile of linear algebra.

Thanks for this brilliant insight. After work, I probably am going to grab my midi keyboard, just like I have for almost 20 years now.

Oh and I've never made any money off of it. In fact I haven't even tried.

Tone deafness comes in many forms, I see.

I've voiced my opinion on "AI" being used to make "art" before, and I'm going to do it again: I think this is one of the worst things you can use AI for, as it narrows down the possibilities of one of the most enjoyable HUMAN activities, which is CREATING art.

I loathe the vision of a future where anyone can ask a neural network to create music just by describing what they, the user, want to hear, without them necessarily having any musical chops at all, and where some douche will train a neural network to generate every possible melody and chord progression that could be enjoyable to the human ear.

I'm saying.. You had thousands of real problems to solve using AI, and you chose to use it to make living more miserable for anyone who sees music as something more than a mere arrangement of sounds.

Agreed. I don't play RimWorld that often anymore (though that's about to change again as I'm about to get the new Biotech DLC), but when I do, I go out of my way to clear my whole weekend of any obligations just so I can immerse myself in the game for a couple of days.

These things make me sad. Not that the results are anywhere close to good enough to replace a human artist yet, but eventually it'll probably be at a level that's good enough for most people, and that'll be the day when music will be truly disposable. I imagine an endless stream of music equivalent to the average Netflix-produced movie. Perfect for people who want music to play all the time without actively listening to any of it.