even if you don’t personally find it to your taste,
This is the bit that pisses me off though. Corporate music has always been soulless slop, and when you point it out “oh that’s just like your opinion man”.
To get philosophical, because that’s what the topic is; mathematics, life, human conciousness are based off similar patterns. Conway’s game of life demonstrates purely mathematical cellular automata; when you go down to the chemical level, life is cellular automata with chemicals, which give way to cells, and complex structures and human beings.
Corporate pop does the same fucking shit the godless AI does. People don’t sing, they don’t give a shit, and it’s just there as another piece of slop for idiots to fucking consume. It works in a similar way to the AI; it catches onto patterns, digid bullshit defined by someone more clue that says “hey, the millenial whoop is popular this decade, cram it into the songs we’re releasing for fiscal quarter 3”. “this year’s hot rhythmn is the reggeton clave, shove that in”. Then the zillionaire that teenage girls somehow get 1k dollars in order to see goes on stage , dances a bit and DOESN’T EVEN FUCKING SING.
The AI does the same shit “Oh, the guy put in sad, make it pianos and minor chords”. But now it’s not about fucking opinion, it’s a fucking abomination that must be extinguished. “It all sounds like slop” My brother in christ, have you heard 80s pop music?
It’s the same fucking pattern.
“oh noz, the AI is putting the real musicians out of bidness” Yeah, corporate pop doesn’t do anything like that. That’s why the greatest composers of our modern era have to manage touring schedules with working real fucking jobs and making losses on their tours, becuase fuck me, my opinion is worth fucking nothing. It’s the same thing. Fucking DJ sets are walking around using synths instead of analog instruments, but that wasn’t the crime putting honest musicians out of business, no, it’s the fucking guy in india typing in a generic description into sumo ai to turn a quick buck.
How do fake bands dominate spotify when regular ones don’t? It’s easy; corporate business practices mean that the business side of music (or any endevour, let’s fucking face it) is a zillion times more important than the actual musician aspect of music.
If this sounds like I’m on the side of AI; it’s not. The point is that it’s been too late for fucking decades, acting outraged about what’s happening now because it uses new tech is blaming the statistic department for rises in heatwaves.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
You still pay people, not AI. It’s people who do it, people who maintain it. People who maintain the AI itself etc. It just shifted from one tech-field to another tech-field.
But I get your point.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Your down votes are basically “programmers aren’t people”
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
He he, yup. And all the others around that. REAL artists will never be replaced. The replaceable “artists” probably will. Those that do what the LLM does, just inferior.