Did you realise?
These three songs are all generated by AI. No human is on there doing anything. The lyrics are AI. The tunes are AI. The voices are AI. The instruments are AI. We chose songs with Peter and Karen as unlikely for a songwriter.
The instruction for the first was:
Song about Peter & Karen picking potatoes. Country & Western. Humour.
The illustration of a record label is AI generated. We were specific on text.
We heard it and decided to elaborate.
Ballad about Peter & Karen, Irish. Sad. Potato Famine 1832. Irish accent. Share last potato. Emigrate to America.
Then it did a second version, same words, change of style. By Irish maybe it thought U2.
Each version took around 40 seconds to be generated. I don’t know how the authors, musicians and illustrators here feel, but my conclusion is that we are utterly F*CKED.
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I didn’t think of AI before I clicked on the link. I was still processing what I’d heard. The first track – sounded like a competent band with rubbish material. I didn’t react to the humour, just the clichés. Straight to the dustbin.
The second sounded OK – decent folk club stuff but I wouldn’t buy the CD. The final one – big production middle of the road. I wouldn’t buy it but maybe it would sell.
After saying all that, I agree – this is seriously worrying. We’re only at the start of the AI journey.
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It’s astonishing that it created the lyric with no input. The tunes are cliches, and we thought the C&W was easier which is why we asked it to do the potato famine. We can’t input an actual person as a style reference.
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When this sort of question comes up, my thoughts go to the AI computer programs that play the game of go (or chess) better than humans. When a computer program first beat the top professional players, the general consensus was that this was going to be the end of go for both professionals and amateurs. No one would be interested if a computer could beat everyone. However, what actually happened was quite different. The pros continued playing for prize money and the amateurs continued playing for recognition and fun. The pros made deep studies of the games played by the computer programs and added many new positions to their games. Amateurs adopted some of these. However, many ways of playing by the computer were incompatible with the human mind so they are just ignored. There are no longer games between computers and humans, accept as ways to practice and study.
My feelings about AI music and AI art are related to my feelings about AI go. I think that works by humans will be valued for their humanity. Hopefully, people will start labeling the works as to the creator, AI or human or other (There are examples of art by other animals.). However, the lack of a label does not really concern me that much. What is good is good and what is bad is bad. The creator does not matter too much. Obviously, there will be people who lose their livelihood and others who do the equivalent of profession work but as a hobby, however, I think works by both AIs and humans will continue to be sold so there will not be too many losers. There are none in go as far as I can tell, except a few top pros whose egos were bruise so they quite and found another way to make a living.
Sorry if the above is a bit rambling. I am not an AI who works in seconds but a human who needs time and I have other things I need to do at the moment.
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