Ars Technica: The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called music “the universal language of mankind.” Is that still true when the so-called music is being generated by a probabilistic robot instead of a human? We’re about to find out. Google has announced its latest Lyria 3 AI model is being deployed in the Gemini app, vastly expanding access to AI music generation.
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This kind of stuff just makes me feel so sad because making music is so fun and fulfilling. I just don't understand this urge to generate at all. It also is so frustrating that because AI tools are developing so quickly it's hard to know whether the content you're consuming music or something else is generated or not. Some tells still exist that what you're experiencing is AI generated. But for the most part a lot of stuff has just become indistinguishable. I just wish people were able to just make music on their own or write on their own or create pictures on their own instead of generating it. I just don't understand how it's enticing. I guess I understand how it's enticing to just get busy work done if that's what you're using the writing maybe for but to want to give over your creative outlet to a robot to do it for you I just can never understand how that would be enticing I can understand wanting to get your homework done faster and easier and think less about it but to do something creative and fun.
Oh goody, more on AI. I know I’m not the only one tired of hearing about how AI is the next big thing alongside terrible things happening to real people on the news. And beside that, this just seems like an awful idea made to churn out an awful product. All existing AI music ‘machines’ do nothing but create more slop, something that even the least sophisticated tastes find deplorable - and moreover, there are lawsuits (though I know not if currently) regarding AI stealing visual and auditory artists’ work. It’s an interesting argument in terms of accessibility, but at a high cost. I’m glad they’re been thinking about the different languages and such, but I still hesitate to explore such technologies given that I don’t know the harm done per each use, including environmentally. Every generative AI usage spells out more water usage and more machine cycles eating up energy.
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