What if I tell an AI tool to make me a beat using a specific sample? That’s meat doing the sampling.

Gotta send them $1B I guess

Using the same playbook across the globe for centuries.

I guess you didn’t read the whole comment. It’s okay. It’s long.

The biggest tell is the exact 2:00 length haha.

Music production hat makes you equally resistant to AI usage. With my music production hat on it’s equally difficult to listen to. Super compressed. That noise is ridiculous. The song itself pretty basic. BUT it’s not bad. I’ve heard human make stuff that sounds wayyyyy worse. Obviously it’s stealing from a lot to create something halfway decent. It’s only gonna keep sounding better (think autotune vs melodyne) and/or our ears are going to adjust to this quality of music. As I’m sure you know, music is heavily compressed/limited and way louder than generations past. And loooootts of overproduced artists in the radio. Part of me feels the same way. I’ll never like AI generated music. Then another part of me say, what if it sounds good? Why not? I still listen to MJ sometimes and he diddled kids.

Yeah that’s why I specified “in an ethical way”. So if gen AI tools paid royalties to artists you’d be cool with it?

I get it. AI music bad, but let’s step away from the black and white thinking for a second, take off our Lemmy hats and think about a more nuanced approach.

Where do we draw the line with sampling? Where do we draw the line with borrowing from other people’s music? There is no legal protection of chord progressions. Artists are sampling whole songs, they’re sampling musical phrases, melodies and patterns, even recordings of individual notes of instruments.

We don’t know to what extent AI was leveraged to generate the music and lyrics of this song (maybe they wrote lyrics and fed it to a text to speech model, maybe they fed it specific audio to be used), but what we do know is that millions of artists everywhere borrow from and even directly use creative content from other artists.

Obviously, most Gen AI is trained on stolen content, but I’m offering the opportunity to see the potential of AI and music done in an (currently imaginary) ethical way.

Again, where do we draw the line at sampling in music?

Why not just go atom bomb and do $500?

EDIT: I’m saying atom bomb as a metaphor for raising prices

And the Uyghurs

Makes sense. They run America.

Pegasus

Is this the only picture the media has of Ukrainian children? I think I’ve seen articles about this topic at least 3-4 times in the past year and it’s the same pic.

Trump was due to appease the oil tycoons.

Too soon. Tsk tsk.

Nah that’s just alt left propaganda. All of the children themselves were actually nuclear weapons disguised as innocent girls.

Is that Khamenei in the upper right or am I just racist?

Rules of engagement should be Battlebots only. No projectiles.

That sounds counterintuitive

I think this has popped up 3 times for me in the last week

Somebody put signs all over Miami with his face and some clever line about him being in Miami dodging the military