Posted on 08/03/2025 6:06:54 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Back in the 80’s, computers and MIDI control was going to make musicians obsolete
You still had to compose the music and come up with the lyrics, and still perform some manual dexterity with those tools.
Now, type a few sentences and Whammo!
Well, I remember when you could go and see movies like Field of Dreams, Witness, Working Girl, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance, Fatal Attraction, Outrageous Fortune, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, When Harry Met Sally, Dangerous Liaisons, and many others and you didn’t get leftist talking points lectured to you both in and outside the feature film.
Stop right there, Canada.
Maybe where you live, it’s democratization.
In the land of freedom, we call this theft.
A basic element of any model is that it requires a development dataset. For Generative AI, that is other people’s property.
Indeed, Veo 3 was trained on YouTube videos and other intellectual property.
Should we trust Google when it says “We also recognize the need for guardrails, which is why we’ve invested in robust protections that allow creators to protect their image and likeness in the AI era — something we’re committed to continuing.”
Uh, no.
I agree that Hollywood is pestilence. I get the joyful response to Hollywood getting taken down.
But property rights - along with The Holy Trinity - are the bedrock of freedom.
With CGI and AI there is much room for politically correct humor. Much greater quality “than put a chick in it and make her gay.”
Actually the quality of music has deteriorated a lot since the 80’s.
Way back in my college days I had a side project to develop a scenography for Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen, the epic 14 hour, 4 part music drama. I had some ideas that I thought were really good but it would have been impossible to actually mount a production given the massive egos of the directors. A few years later I thought I could do snippets of the drama using stop-motion filming on a miniature version of Wagner’s stage at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. That, of course, went nowhere.
Now, gee, I could feed some info into AI and do the whole thing.
As with music, it’s the composing and screenwriting that can be done with AI.
I am not convinced that you could ever do a movie or music generated by AI, that you couldn’t tell was done by AI. Therefore actors and musicians won’t go away.
But it’s the creative parts that will go away, like the songwriting and scriptwriting.
And here’s the thing. You can actually cover your tracks so that nobody will know you generated it with AI, you can easily run an LLM on your laptop, disconnected from the Internet, so you can destroy any evidence you used AI tools.
Hollywood Has Received Its Death Blow
WOKE takes another sucker
I've been in a movie theater once in the last 40 years...and that was to see Oppenheimer in "true" IMAX down in Rhode island. And I'm sorry I did so because the sound level almost destroyed my hearing. Thankfully,I have a good collection of classic films on disc.
I also have access to an outstanding public library system which,collectively,has just about every film that's ever been put on disc. So Hollywood can slide into the sea for all I care.
I grew up. I don’t watch cartoons. AI or computer generated images are unacceptable. Use live actors and stop-motion video for effects or be gone.
The original Star Wars with its stop-motion effects was much better than the later ones made with CGI.
If you don't use real actors, you are just watching cartoons.
Hardware Wars was better than the CGI ones. (You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!)
They should use cgi to “fix up” some practical effects to make it look better on the big screen. It has to be cheaper than shooting an entire film on a huge sound stage covered in a green screen.
Right, it enables creativity by removing the huge obstacle of needing to have technical skill. Along the lines of your script writer analogy, in the musical world you had studio musicians like the fabled Wrecking Crew whose expert skills could be used by a producer to realize his vision for a song. Now with AI, essentially everyone can have their own virtual Wrecking Crew (and team of songwriters).
The catch is that there’s a lot of creativity even in things that are considered strictly technical. And conversely a lot of creativity is informed and inspired by technical knowledge. So it seems doubtful they can be entirely separated. That’s why I think that at the highest levels AI won’t replace the human mind and experience. But it definitely is a powerful tool and will increase quality and quantity at the lower end of the creative realms, and the line between low and high end will move upward as AI improves.
That is tragic, really tragic. Music is an art form of the soul. The human expression is what makes music. Computer generated music may just be pretty sound.
Take the human element out of the arts, and it just is no longer the arts. That is one facet civilization collapse.
Lot’s Day. Final Choice. ✖️📖
McCarthy was right about the Hollowoodies.
Depends upon the music to which you listen. The genre that includes Enya, Liz Story, Mannheim Steamroller, and Vangelis has flourished.
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