this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
66 points (85.1% liked)

Technology

59099 readers
5111 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

A known AI hater, Nick Cave has once again gone off on OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators being used to mimic real songwriting.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] eager_eagle 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The apocalypse is well on its way," Cave wrote. "This song sucks."

so, he's pissed off because an AI-generated song... sucks?

good artists will keep creating good art; lazy ones will create more and more worthless artificial art; smart ones will be able to offload some of their work to these helpers. The world will carry on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good artists will keep creating good art; record labels will keep pushing increasingly cheap and braindead bullshit strangling any hope of actual innovation made by anyone who needs to make a living to survive.

Human culture gradually grows into an easily consumed, regenerative cheeseburger-like mess. A billion near identical five second snippets of unprovocative entertainment that satisfies nobody but the shareholders, but feeds endless masses of consumerist dopamine slaves until they slowly die of boredom without ever having thought an independent thought in their life.

And the world, indeed, carries on.

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

the worst part is that by this description AI is not really changing things. It seems to me the industry was always headed that way and AI is maybe speeding it up if anything at all.

These are rarely "AI problems".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, the mainstream is quick to use AI as a scapegoat because their frogs have been thoroughly boiled by corporate profiteering, which is the real problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is true - at the end of the day it's just the age old struggle of maintaining humanity in face of modernism. Apollonian versus Dionysian, John Henry versus the steam drill.

What's worrying me is that humanity appears to be losing ground fast, and that AI not only speeds up the process but makes fighting back even harder.