Comment Re:AI generated art and music... (Score 1) 83
I might. I'd be interested to see how it sounded.
I might. I'd be interested to see how it sounded.
One of the people making those songs used to be in a band who got a few singles in the top 40 years ago. Now he doesn't need a band because he can write songs, have the AI perform them and mix them himself. It's allowed him to produce many of his songs that otherwise would never have existed.
"Creative" is just midwitslop they use to pretend that somehow they're creative and the plumber figuring out how to fix your leaking toilet at 3am without having to rip the walls apart isn't. There hasn't been a lot of creativity in Big Label pop music for decades.
And that's what this is really telling us: most pop music has been slop for most of my life, and AI can create infinite slop.
I've bought several AI-generated songs on iTunes and a few more that might be AI-generated. Who cares if it's a good song?
And that's what the "Major Labels" are scared of. They're used to being able to control which music makes it and which doesn't, and now anyone can make songs at home and sell them online. They're desperate not to lose the near-monopoly they've had for decades, which pretty much gave them a license to print money.
Except they still do it. That was just a glaring example that sprang to mind.
Another example more recently is going around in circles trying to find out how to change some setting because the "AI" (Google, Bing, whatever) pulls instructions from two years ago and the UI has completely changed since then. Or maybe it just made up UI features that never existed.
Oh yeah, and then there was Copilot recently, I asked it to suggest an app which would do something, it told me there were two free Microsoft apps which would do it, I downloaded them, neither would do it, I told it that and it basically said "Oh, sorry, I made that up."
Except the answer is often wrong.
For example, last year I was looking for info about a library that some old software we maintain every decade or so uses. The "AI" told me it was deprecated, but when I actually went through the search results it turned out there was some other library of a similar name which was now deprecated and end-of-life.
Without the search results you can't check to see whether what it told you us is true or misinterpretation or just plain made up.
... why they're teaching these models to know how to make cocaine, nerve gas and bombs?
I believe the argument is that radio frequency is a limited resource and therefore the Feds must ensure it's used to the public benefit. So magically the First Amendment doesn't apply.
This ends up meaning that stations which support whatever the current government is can do what they want and station which oppose risk losing their license. Regardless of who is in charge.
90% of what the Federal government does is unconstitutional (including the FCC) and most of that was put in place by Democrats.
The Constitution has been toilet paper since the Civil War.
Can anyone here with a straight face state they truly believe "The View" is a newscast?
Soon to be followed by political beliefs, religious beliefs, criminal record, income, credit score, social credit score, etc.
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
It's much easier to be a lawyer when you're allowed to just make stuff up like LLMs do.
Simple biology.
The greatest misallocation of capital in history. Meanwhile we have customers running systems which do real, important work who are putting off upgrading old hardware because the price is insane for replacements due to people making funny cat videos.
Who gets to decide what's worthless?
Statistics do....
We track what jobs earn what...how many people get accepted in to what jobs on graduation....so, we only offer student loans to degrees that give the student the absolute highest chance of getting a good paying job, one what will allow them to pay off the loans in a reasonable manner.
IN MY OPINION anyone interested in improving himself should not rule out becoming pure energy. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.