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I can't wrap my mind around this at all. Music is the result of people making music. If there is no artist, no perspective or feelings it's just sounds.
Sure I can't sing, so what I as an average person make could not even charitably be called music either, but that is not the point - I want to go to concerts and see bands play music, and want computers to do grunt work that people don't want to do, so that more of us can do better things.
Using an AI to make musical sound just undermines all that. Tech in music being wielded by humans, yes that is music (DJs) and if machines ever develop sentience I will call their sounds music, but not before.
Have my upvote.
"it's just sounds"
So, straying from the conversation about AI music being good or whatever. This is the part of AI music that perplexes me the most. So like... Audio is a wave. You can take a sine wave, and a square wave and layer them on top and you get a sine wave with some square edges because it's both sounds. Different frequencies for different pitches, all of that.
When AI makes music, is it just drawing that wave? If so, that's fucking crazy. Like I could understand if it used some ingested music theory to write chords and a melody, then turn them into MIDI, then run those through a synth plugin. But AI doesn't have a synth plugn. It just knows what a synth plugin sounds like through analasys of sound waves, right? Like AI can't "hear" music. It doesn't know what a cello sounds like. It just knows what the sample point values of a waveform of a cello sounds like. But then if you tell the AI to add an instrument. Let's say an electric guitar. It knows how to re-draw that wave to actually make that sound. To add reverb? To add compression? Then more instruments?
If that's how it actually works, that blows my god damned mind. No human could ever write a song by drawing a line on paper and scanning it in. I suppose they could, but it would be some avant garde experimental thing, not something that sounds like actual instruments. Like I don't think a human could ever figure out how to draw the sound of fingers sliding down the frets of an acoustic guitar between the actually strumming of a guitar.
It's fucking bonkers.
Not even waves just ones & zeros, creating a map. Yeah it's crazy.
I do wonder if the visual representation of music sounds like that would look like art.
See music notes as letters and different type of sound (trumpet, piano, guitar, etc) as a style of writing.
LLMs being good at processing text, music is adjacent to this. Music styles tend to have common elements between them and the LLMs can be trained on the similarities and to predict them, just like text prediction.
When I say music I mean sounds that are intended to sound musical, or melodic or whatever. A kid banging bottoms of pots and kettles with wooden spoons counts as music in this definition. I'm describing a kind of sound.
The sounds AI is able to produce are in some cases such that I enjoy listening to. I'm not a music connoisseur, I'm just a person who likes hearing some sounds more than others. You likely define music differently as well as consume it on a whole different level and that's fine. I'm simply not that into music. I relate to food in a similar manner. It's fuel - if it also tastes good, let alone is healthy, then that's a bonus.
I simply view the gatekeeping and hating a bit silly.
Yeah I don't think AI has intent yet.
Of course you should listen to whatever you like, that's not in question. I like to hear the waves at the beach, thunder, rain. None are music but are lovely sounds.
I know, right? Wtf is wrong with these people. It's the PRODUCT that matters when it comes to music, not the meaning, message, artist or intent, right? Who cares who created the song, or what instruments the song was made with, or even what the song is about. All I crave is acoustic tones arranged in a pleasing manner. Message? Morals? Emotion? Bah, who needs that shit? If Hitler made a banger I'd still listen to it. I'm so glad you think the same!
Wow! I also just shovel whatever disgusting shit someone places in front of my face directly into my mouth without regard for what it is, where it came from, or how it tastes! It's so awesome to finally meet another human being who just mindlessly consumes whatever stupid bullshit that gets thrown in front of him without thinking just like me! Man we are so much alike it's scary.