It’s exploitative trash occupying space that belongs to real artists who actually create real social value.
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Tja@programming.dev 5 days agoSo you’re saying a milli vanilli would be basically impossible to detect.
Besides, who cares? Isn’t the purpose to enjoy the music? Whether some uses a capella, instruments, electric instruments, autotune, vocaloid or AI… if you like the music, listen to the music. It’s ultimately created by a human using tools.
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
I disagree on all counts.
It’s not exploitative, it doesn’t exploit anyone.
It’s not trash, and if it were you wouldn’t need to regulate it because people would reject it on the merits.
The space belongs to whoever wants to create art, with whatever tools they want to do it. Gatekeeping and true Scotsman arguments are really grasping.
I don’t know what “social value” is created. A nurse or a fireman create social value. You won’t see them worrying about AI. If AI could put out fires they would definitely be interested.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
It’s not exploitative, it doesn’t exploit anyone.
It had to be trained on music created by human artists. Those artists were not compensated.
It’s not trash, and if it were you wouldn’t need to regulate it because people would reject it on the merits.
I would reject if I knew it was AI. I can’t always tell, though.
The space belongs to whoever wants to create art, with whatever tools they want to do it.
The owners of Bandcamp get to set the rules, because they own it.
Tja@programming.dev 2 days ago
You can’t always tell, I can’t always tell, bandcamp can’t always tell. And it’s only going to get harder.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think you might misunderstood what Bandcamp is aiming for here. They’re explicitly trying to still allow it when humans are using it (responsibly) as tools. This is essentially a ban on AI where no human is involved (or not involved enough), where the music produced is focused on quantity over quality (slop). That’s a fine and nuanced distinction for a music distribution platform in my opinion.
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
Ok, if this is just a spam prevention I think it’s fine. Obviously I didn’t read the article (as tradition mandates).
kayohtie@pawb.social 4 days ago
If AIGM was like VSTs or vocaloids that’d be one thing. But it’s more like imitation of sounds, synthesizing song chunks instead of instruments and voices themselves.
The best way to think of it is something creating an audio file solely by using the Photoshop clone stamp tool across millions of source files.
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
That’s not how transformer neural networks work…
kayohtie@pawb.social 3 days ago
Sure, but we’re talking generative here, as is the article, and to pretend it’s referring to a tool that’s been standard in libraries and even VSTs for over a decade is either misunderstanding the article or being disingenuous on purpose.
Tja@programming.dev 3 days ago
No, I get it. It’s generative. GPT: Generative Pretrained Transformer. Music generators add a diffusion layer, but it’s fundamentally new music being generated, not copies of existing songs.
My point is that it’s just another tool, that automates it even more. It’s not the same, it’s the next step.
pyre@lemmy.world 5 days ago
not the same thing. AIGM is by definitions not created by humans.
if i tell you to create a song about a recent breakup i got through, gave you some notes about rhythm and maybe what kind of feel i would like it to have, and then you went ahead and composed the whole song, played all the instruments, provided the vocals, did the mixing and editing and gave me the result, do you think it’s fair to say i made the song?
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
Same as vocaloid. Or autotune. How far do we go?
Besides, again, who cares. If you like the music, enjoy it, if not, pass.
mriormro@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I care. Clearly so do the people in support of this decision on here as well as bandcamp themselves.
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
I hope you are familiar with survivorship bias.
pyre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
how is it like auto tune? auto tune corrects your singing, it doesn’t sing for you.
also, humans care? that’s kind of the entire point of art? we care where art comes from. find the best painter in the world, have them make mona lisa’s exact copy, and see if it sells for even remotely similar price as Mona Lisa’s estimated value which is probably around a billion dollars. anyone can “enjoy” an exact copy, no?
no. we care about art because art tells stories. human stories. computers don’t have stories to tell. they can imitate, but the best it can ever be will be as valuable as an imitation: not much.
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
What does monetary worth have to do with anything? A photo of the Mona Lisa is an exact replica, you could even make it bigger to appreciate the details better. If what you like is the picture, you can have it. If what you want is speculation and tax write offs, then you need the scarcity.