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Comment Re:small business (Score 1) 76

I hope this will only mean that Google AI verminator numbers are blocked, not that businesses will give up their phone lines period. I much prefer calling up and e.g. ordering food to pick up for cash, not using Grubhub or Uber Shits. God damn technology. Ludd! Dudd! Luddududd!

Comment Re:Charging a nominal fee is the way to go (Score 1) 52

No. It needs to be high enough that the submitter limits the number of submissions. I expect that $1 would suffice, but that's a guess.

OTOH, I'm reluctant to pay money over the internet, so I am usually only willing to do so if I have a previous financial-over-the-internet transaction history. So it might limit the valid bug reports/suggested fixes.

Comment Re:Human connections (Score 1) 195

Yeah, I think every generation thinks this.

But honestly, if you haven't found anything full of human spirit and culture, that's probably on you. There's still tonnes of original music made by indie bands out there. Go looking for modern punk/reggae/ska bands that are writing protest songs. Maybe explore some of the culture of other continents--I've heard that French African music is undergoing a bit of a renaissance (and there are plenty of European french people lowkey mad about it because they never like slang coming in from outside the country).

But even the pop stuff--yeah, it's generic. It always has been. That's what makes it pop music. But they've still picked up on the last 20 or 30 years of musical trends and integrated them into their songs. The tone and musicality of the songs has shifted slightly. It's not for me either, but it's not meaningfully better or worse than the pop of the past, tbh, it's just not MY music.

AI slop is so much worse, because in general, it's ONLY copying music from a single genre. Remember that musicians today probably listened to a bunch of stuff when they were young. If they're kids of GenX, they would've heard their parents' music growing up and then integrated some of that into their own work. You get weird crossings over of genres and sometimes something interesting pops out.

Anyway, AI slop can only ever be as interesting as the average of the current corpus of human music. It has no feelings, no experiences, no struggles. It will probably never write anything as hilariously bad as 'Friday' by Rebecca Black, which came back around and accidentally became the zeitgeist for a brief period, and now is actually weirdly nostalgic for a lot of people that experienced it at the time.

Comment Re:Isn't this what migrating birds & animals u (Score 1) 44

From that article, it's unclear whether birds are actually doing this, and if so whether they actually locate themselves with any degree of precision using a map, vs. basically just telling north from south and largely relying on seeing geographic features like rivers and mountains.

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