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Half a Million Spotify Users Are Unknowingly Grooving to an AI-Generated Band (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This ignores that corporate media controls what is put out on the radio and what is allowed to become popular. The generic sameness is not because of the artist but because of the economic forces, the same forces that give us AI ‘music’ garbage

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But there's also only so many billions of enjoyable combinations of sounds you can make in 4 minutes. At some point everything new will be similar to something that's already been there anyways, regardless of who's in control.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I don't think you quite grasp the maths behind your own statement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

How does that make sense? Why would we want AI to use this supposed limited set of sounds instead of humans?