Yeah, right, it’s like all those people forbidding doping and other forms of cheating in sports competitions. Why should you actually need to be good at something to participate in a competition right? /s
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iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reactionary nonsense. May as well disqualify anyone using anything other woodwinds and stringed instruments.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
The AI in that song is just used as a tool to emulate the sound of drake’s voice. The rest is standard artist composition.
While I don’t particularly care for the song, comparing it to doping is not reasonable.
Same with all AI art tools. Actual artists can make reasonable use of these tools to more efficiently convey what they had wanted to convey.
This is just like when cameras were invented. Or people started using digital mediums. Or when people started making 3D art.
Even simple prompt only stuff like midjourney is improving to allow artists more control over the image they are trying to create.
If we end up with a holo-deck style experience where artists can craft entire worlds to share a they had imagined, is that still not art?
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s one type of art, just not grammy-sanctioned art.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. That a tool can bring it to life without much effort doesn’t make it an amazing work of craft. Having said that, there could be a category in which made up ideas are the center. Like books and short stories.
I can think of a mouse with the head of David Hasselhoff giving a thumbs up while riding a dinasour-shaped rocket next to a black hole. Where’s my art award!!!
Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Yes there are different types of art. Yes some are impressive for technical skill in a specific medium. Traditional Hyper-Realism or corporate artists are good examples. Sandcastle art is cool too.
I don’t think these things will lose their unique value, but they are similarly not arguments against photography, film,digital art, etc for the things that give them their unique value. I think that also applies to AI mediums.
Nuance in everything.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Sorry, humans still set the rules for competitions and we are allowed to set arbitrary lines to keep the competitions fair and relevant. That’s why we allow shoes but not bikes when people run the marathon.
alienanimals@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We don’t even allow all shoe types in marathons. Certain Nike shoes are considered “too good”.
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cycling is an entirely different sport than running. Your comparison is faulty.
This is like telling engineers they can’t use calculators to complete their task.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Cycling is a different sport than running because we banned bikes in one of them. Both sports have lists of things you are and are not allowed to do in order to maintain the spirit of the sport. As shoes become more advanced hundreds of jurys look at the new shoes and decide if they are allowed or not. Most shoes pass but some are banned.
In the engineering example they are allowed to use calculators in their job but they are not allowed to use them in math competitions that don’t allow them.
Grammy is a competition and not part of their real job. If you don’t want to participate you don’t need to.
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What? This is their real, day-to-day job. This isn’t a competition, in the sense which you describe.
Their managers submit their works (read: the stuff they made at their day to day job) from the calendar year, which are reviewed in private by the judges.
If the goal was ‘you have X time to make Y song within these parameters’, you’d have a direct comparison but it is not, and you do not.