Metal Pet Peeves

[Bürggermeister]

Why so?

[Mithrandir]

Well, it's silly that he can't comprehend why people have an issue with them using AI artwork and once you start ranting on facebook your band loses any credibility you may have had to me. Also in regards to 'Levels of Perception' the fact he thought that this is what people wanted is laughable, what a terrible idea with an even worse execution. Thinking by having a shitty recording of new material is going back to your demo days shows how out of touch he is. Pestilence haven't released anything good in 30+ years, well past hanging up the boots time.

[Bürggermeister]

There seems to be little logic in what people will and won't accept. Sampled, corrected and even programmed drums are widely accepted, digitally modelled guitar amps are now the norm and nobody gives a shit. AI is already being used to mix recordings. Soon nobody will give a shit about AI artwork, but we're still dawdling at the point where we have to wait for it to not be an issue like all the other stuff which is now the norm. There's no fucking doubt he's not alone with that opinion but he's one of the few who has the balls to say it aloud. Fair play to him for highlighting the stupidity of it, I say.

[Eoin McLove]

Spheres.

[Bürggermeister]

  

[Sworntothecans]

He's a bit of a gobshite. Big 'roidy head on him.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

fuck generative AI from the highest height. don't feel like elaborating this morning, so just that.

[Necro Red]

There seems to be little logic in what people will and won't accept. Sampled, corrected and even programmed drums are widely accepted, digitally modelled guitar amps are now the norm and nobody gives a shit. AI is already being used to mix recordings. Soon nobody will give a shit about AI artwork, but we're still dawdling at the point where we have to wait for it to not be an issue like all the other stuff which is now the norm. There's no fucking doubt he's not alone with that opinion but he's one of the few who has the balls to say it aloud. Fair play to him for highlighting the stupidity of it, I say.

I would tend to agree. If the artwork looks cool that is of course.

[Bürggermeister]

Yeah, of course. Shit is shit but the music is the important bit for me, I couldn't really give a fuck who did the artwork. In fact, I'd trade eternally shit artwork if we could get rid of clicky triggered and qauntised drums and go back to mic'ing up acoustic kits, lesser of two evils and all that 

[Ducky]

To crossover a bit from the Nevermore thread, on paper I'm against A.I.-generated art, but if it existed in 1996 then I'm sure it could've shat out a better job than the sleeve art to "The Politics of Ecstasy" that we got. Doubly so that (I assume) a few people would've had to sign off on it, and someone got paid to create it.

[Sworntothecans]

Nevermore"Can we get Dave McKean?
Century Media"Fuck no. you can have Johnny the intern-he works for Iced Earth shirts and label samplers"

[Pentagrimes]

Pestilence have only ever been "the future of music" when someone has seen the future of music before them.

[fosmetal]

I understand the opposition to AI-generated artwork.

At the same time, neither The Abyss nor Tron were nominated for Best Visual Effects at the Oscars, on the explicit grounds that they'd used CGI, which the Academy considered "cheating". Now, of course, you'd be hard pressed to find a film nominated for that award in the past ten years (or even twenty) which doesn't use CGI in some capacity. I do strongly suspect we'll look back on the initial controversy over AI-generated artwork in much the same way.

[The Heretic]

[Thorn]