Posted on 11/27/2023 7:13:54 AM PST by NetAddicted
Since the advent of modern scientific theory people who worry about such things have spent much time worrying about the creations of man supplanting humanity, developing a life of their own and the ability to out-compete their creators in all areas of life. From Shelley's Frankenstein to Cameron's Terminator fear of humans sowing the seeds of their own destruction run deep in the modern psyche, and with the advent of artificial intelligence engines such as ChatGPT this concern has only intensified for many.
Well, we're here to tell you that if 'Anna Indiana' is anything to go by the reign of mankind looks to be continuing for a good long time, because if computer's doing something creative better than a human is possible... this ain't it.
Hello world! I’m Anna Indiana and I’m an AI singer-songwriter. Here’s my first song, Betrayed by this Town. Everything from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm, lyrics, and my image and singing, is auto-generated using AI. I hope you like it 💕 pic.twitter.com/0Cf42iyxHI
— Anna Indiana (@AnnaIndianaAI) November 24, 2023
We're not music critics but the song is terrible. Vaguely catchy? Sort of, but not in a good way. The animation is strangely unsettling, with a head that seems to bob and move in an unnatural style completely divorced from the body which remains unnervingly motionless. It's the Uncanny Valley distilled to its essence.
This is trash
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 24, 2023
Ope, as the Governor of Indiana, I'm afraid we're revoking your last name.
— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) November 24, 2023
Why is your AI threatening to burn down towns.
— Disparu (@disparutoo) November 24, 2023
Concerning certainly, but if this AI goes about tearing down towns as well as it writes songs and animates singers the town is going to be just fine.
Holy uncanny valley hell! lmfao
— Robert K Craig (@N7Verner) November 24, 2023
I really liked how they allowed you to read the code along with the lyrics.
Ok, I really didn't. Personally, the song sucked and the voice is annoying. Not to mention the freakish, out of proportion facial structure.
— Robert (@tally_dad) November 24, 2023
Yet another I - V - vi - IV chord progression that's used in every other pop song from 1996 to today. They needed advanced computers to come up with this dreck?🤡
— Ken Pomarco (@KenPomarco) November 24, 2023
Perhaps asking computers to be imaginative is asking too much.
This is an abomination https://t.co/w3HNrmxUjh
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) November 24, 2023
Literally nobody asked for this. Nobody wants this. Also the lyrics suck and I actually found her voice to be slightly off and not enjoyable to listen to https://t.co/vwsPaTrXDJ
— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) November 24, 2023
There you have it, singers and songwriters.
Your careers are safe for a while yet.
AI programmers not so much. https://t.co/3yXjrDS3lP
— Mixy Pisa (@MixyPisa) November 24, 2023
We can hear the sigh of relief being breathed in Nashville and LA from here.
Seriously, this is terrible. If the Robocalypse is coming it isn't coming anytime soon, if this thing is anything to go by. So rest easy... but maybe not too easy.
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Sounds better than any Taylor Swift song.
I watched a show called Joe Picket for 2 seasons. Season 1 was pretty darned good with a great plot. Season 2 was just plain all over the place and disjointed. I figured season 2 was written by AI or a retard.
I posted wrong url for article. Here is the correct one. I’d post link to song, but it is an X address, too long, and messes up formatting:
https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/11/24/ai-song-n2390134
It’s not perfect, but within the next 10 years, it will be. And that scares the entertainment companies and all the entertainment craft unions to no end.
I posted wrong url for article. Here is the correct one:
https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/11/24/ai-song-n2390134
I had it try to write a story- the story was awful. No life in the scenes, just rote descriptions and scenes.
Music is not logical, it is for emotional presentation.
There are two sides of existence. Even the human brain has those two sides. The so called left side is generally responsible for logic and language, while the right is responsible for creativity and intuition.
AI is not able to invent illogical products. They only deal with fact based upon logic. Can they do math or design a structure from their memories...of course already using esablished facts. But creativity without substance is beyond their capacity. If science can ever produce a two sided AI they have basically invented a working brain and not a computer as it will be able to think beyond existence.
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So, good enough for your typical Netflix series?
Regards,
Lol probsbly- maybe I should hawk it to Netflix 😆
UGH!
Usual four chord progression, dull melody, dystopian lyrics. Anna needs a new career.
Yeah, but couldn’t, or shouldn’t ai be able to write a song in the style of say a famous singer? With art ai, you can input something like “a watercolor scene of a boat on water in the style of JW Turner” (or degas, or whoever you like) and get some fairly good results. I’ve done a bunch of ones in the trippy style of Marc Chagall that look pretty decent and have that chagall feel to them-
Maybe it’s different with music though
Or do a new song that sounds like The Beatles.
The animation doesn’t seem to extend below the neck.
Poetry speaks more than prose.
Sounds like most of the schlock that I hear on the radio these days, which I quickly turn off. The AI probably did some sort of amalgam or average of that sort of stuff, and came up with this.
My thoughts exactly, though I think it won't take 10 years before "entertainers" start feeling the pressure to learn to code.
“A friend of mine called Steve Goodman wrote the perfect country and western song.” a few years back ...
“Goodman and Prine originally composed the song as a pastiche and style parody of “every country song” they had ever heard. In live performances, Goodman would often adopt a parody of Hank Williams Sr.’s performance style, with a large cowboy hat. Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride and Merle Haggard (as well as his song “The Fightin’ Side of Me”) are mentioned in the lyrics; Coe also uses loose impersonations of each artist in doing so, and also makes reference to Faron Young's “Hello Walls” in the background vocals, noting that “you don't have to call me” any of those names anymore. In the third verse, Coe notes “the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe is when Jesus has his final Judgment Day.”
In a spoken epilogue preceding the song's iconic closing verse, Coe relates a correspondence he had with Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the “perfect country and western song.” Coe wrote back stating that no song could fit that description without mentioning a laundry list of clichés from the genre: “Mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk”. Goodman's equally facetious response was an additional verse that incorporated all five of Coe’s requirements, and upon receiving it, Coe acknowledged that the finished product was indeed the “perfect country and western song” and included the last verse on the record:
I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train
Goodman, in his versions, commented that there were some other ideas he missed, including farms, Dallas, divorce, dead dogs like Old Shep, and Christmas. He also mentioned, in various performances, Freddy Fender, Charlie Rich and Charlie the Tuna instead of Jennings, and his name on the sign was a neon sign hanging over “the bar I used to own,” with the verse likewise restructured to fit without Coe’s name.
Coe’s recording of “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” is accompanied mainly by resonator guitar, pedal steel guitar, electric guitar and bass guitar.”
But “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Never_Even_Called_Me_by_My_Name “
It’s better than any techno song.
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