I understand your point, but isn’t an orchestra ACTUALLY tuned to 440 (or 442 sometimes), because it’s usually a violin or oboe they’re tuning from? Like yeah, my bass isn’t going to be at 440, but the pitch I’m listening to while tuning is 440.
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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Tbf they meant relative to the Stuttgart pitch. Humans would also refer to an orchestra tuning to concert pitch “A440.”
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 1 week ago
bstix@feddit.dk 1 week ago
You’re right. Orchestras often tune to the oboe, because it can’t easily be tuned and usually stays in tune in conditions that would make other instruments go out of tune.
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cool - thanks for the sanity check.
breaks@lemmy.studio 1 week ago
Y’know, you’re definitely right. But if Copilot were really useful it could have explained that.
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think the AI meant anything.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
“They” being the sources that the AI ingested to produce this output. AI is a word association machine, not a research tool. If people (“they”) call “tuning relative to A4=440Hz” “tune A to 440” AI will repeat it.
I’m just saying, while the OP is technically correct, one wouldn’t apply the same requirements on conversation with a human, which AI is built on.
__nobodynowhere@lemm.ee 1 week ago
LLMs mishmash from several sources. There isn’t a singular coherent “they”.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I understand, similar to “That’s what they say”, which is what I was idiomatically using “they” as in my original comment. I don’t really think it needs this much scrutiny.