All of the tracks identified as 'fraudulent' - along with the AI-generated ones that aren't so identified - end up training the AI to create more human-sounding music. And newer human song writers and musicians are making it easier for AI. Much of modern popular music is objectively less complex and distinctive. This probably isn't helped by the number of cooks preparing the broth.

Thirty or forty years ago it was very uncommon to have more than three writers for a song, and one or two writers was the norm. Today, it's very common for a song to have six or more - sometimes many more - writing credits. Even when you exclude vanity credits, there are still too many writers for the average song.

So a lot of originality, quirkiness, personality, and other positive attributes are suppressed and averaged out of today's song writing. Not to mention the lack of commitment and investment - who's going to toil and sweat over getting a song just right when several other writers' visions are also in the mix?

BTW, I'm just expanding a bit on a video I saw recently. It's fair to say that I don't know a lot about music or the industry - but you can't really say that about Rick Beato.

True. But AI will increase the rate of wealth concentration while simultaneously making it much easier for them to simply ignore the rest of us.

Thank you for saying that. I hadn't thought of AI as a distraction, probably because I've known about the problem of wealth concentration for a long time. But you're right - a lot of people will see AI as a cause of the problem rather than simply another symptom of it.

I wish you were right, but something tells me that you aren't.

I'm pretty sure that "Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee and current Democratic House candidate in New York" is like you and me in that he also doesn't believe in an AI utopia for the proles. But he's betting that a lot of other proles WILL believe that - and I'm betting that he's right.

Just like politicians, these psychopaths are saying what they think people want to hear. Anyone who believes their assertions shouldn't be trusted with blunt scissors, never mind with a say in giving the broligarchs a pass just because they pinky-swear they'll be good and take care of everyone.

What these ass-hats are promising is the AI-scam equivalent of "the cheque's in the mail" or "I won't cum in your mouth". You only need to watch Alex Karp foaming and growling like a rabid dog in need of a bullet, or to see Peter Thiel oozing creepiness and menace like an over-acting extra from American Horror Story, to realize that these defective mutants need to be put our of OUR misery.

These sick, twisted, self-fellating bastards are our enemies, and they want all of us either to be their slaves or to die. Say "no!" to the parasites, and elect people who say and do the things that Mamdani is doing in NYC. The world needs a zillion more of him.

Deezer is almost half-way to "90 percent of everything is crap". How far behind can the rest of the world be?

I can't tell whether you're being serious or you're joking. Assuming that you're being serious, I'd like to point out that giving a browser provider your phone number and email address - never mind multiples thereof - is kinda like bending over to pick up the soap in a prison shower.

The bottom of the sea, please. That way their carcasses might feed more useful life forms. Also, parasites on the ocean floor are less likely to harm mankind.

Fifty years in space and not only is it not dead, it's still sending back useful data decades after its expected demise. Great engineering, teamwork, and a commitment that's still alive five decades after launch. That's both touching and inspirational.

Given that our species can make Voyager happen - along with all the other exploring, discovering, and building we've done since the advent of civilization - I find it truly sad that we may be on the verge of ending it all forever.

I get that violent aggression and subjugation were evolutionarily selected as survival traits. But it's both sad and ironic that those traits may also spell the end of mankind. Wouldn't it be sad if some of the things we've launched into the great unknown are still sending data back to us when there's nobody left alive to receive it?

It would be less insulting if they dispensed with the intelligence-insulting bullshit and just said "We decided it would be more profitable for us to pull the plug, and we really don't care about customer satisfaction or well-being anyway, so sorry, not sorry.

I mean, it's HP. This NOT happening would be unexpected.

But it IS good if you're a business. Every job you successfully displace with AI is a large cost saving. (At least until there are no more people with jobs that allow them to pay for your product or service).

I'm interested in what you've open-sourced, but your homepage link goes to Slashdot and I don't see any mentions of open source in your journal.

On the "soft" side of AI uses, just earlier today I had a conversation with ChatGPT regarding food and fuel shortages here in Canada which might result from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. That then evolved to my query "Please comment on how the inequities at play in North America over the past 30 years might have been different if policies and attitudes promoted by people such as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor had been adopted". The answers were thoughtful and informative. I didn't explicitly check for hallucinations, but I saw no indication that it was making stuff up. This was by far my longest use of AI - I kept questioning until the 'freebie' quota was reached.

All that is to say that AI - at least at this moment in history - may be more useful at providing a sounding-board and food for thought than it is at giving hard, quantifiably-correct answers.

Thanks - I'm taking that as food for thought. It seems to me that proliferation of personal, locally-hosted LLMs would go a long way toward removing the business motivation you mentioned.

And I'm entirely behind making AI output not subject to copyright. I'm just concerned that human beards will claim authorship of AI-generated stuff and copyright it in their own names. Sadly, my "AI on every desktop" scenario makes that all the more likely.

There seems to be some potential for a lot of good to come out of AI, but right now it seems to be putting its weight behind civilization's slide into a dystopian hellscape.

Never mind will we - rather, can we - turn the tide and make AI work for the good of all humanity, or at least make it neutral?

Is AI so dangerous that it can never support the overall common good? Or are we so fucked up that we are unable to make it work for the collective good?

Sorry, that was more than one serious question - my bad.

If memory and processor prices ever become sane and reasonable again, could this be the end of the AI bubble? If free-as-in-beer-AND-speech models are readily available, and if the computing power required to run them is affordable, what do the major AI merchants who've been inflating the bubble have to offer?

Sure, there's the training time and effort. But just as the internet spelled the end of having no choice but to pay for music and other media, won't it also be the way in which the training data that AI companies already stole can be re-stolen by folks who are running their own LLMs on their own hardware?

"Gazing into Sam Altman's Orb" could be the modern-day equivalent of a tattoo inked in a Nazi concentration camp.

What's that Sam? Your iris-print isn't in your database? I'm shocked! /sarc

It's astonishing to me how the plebs of the world are being treated more and more like cattle, and how they're increasingly eager to comply.

On a side note, what are the chances of hackers messing with the database? Having a major criminal swap identities with you would be... inconvenient? Deadly? But they're taking all prudent precautions, so that could never happen, right?

Fair point. But geo-politics makes strange bedfellows, and this may be one of those unicorn moments where Putin's desires and what's best for the free world in the long term actually align. (Note that I consider America - and Israel, of course - to be no longer a part of the free world).