First trickle of generative AI music videos

[The Butcher]

I'm not surprised that Google are starting to pop ahead of the competition when it comes to AI video/audio/image generation tools - I mean they have a wealth of stuff to tap into from youtube alone. I mean that VEO 3 stuff...the uncanny valley is not hitting as hard with those videos, first time I'm feeling that. Going to be scary what will be possible by the end of this decade. We'll be flooded with AI influencers yet...if only Bill Hicks was around to see the new wave of marketing 

[Bürggermeister]

The frist AI "band" success story (commercially, of course, it's a tragedy for mankind)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nlb-m_vKYM

[Kollin]

I am guessing that a good portion of those listens is just curiousity, not actual fans.

[Bürggermeister]

I suppose the point was that there's even a discussion means that we're at the stage where AI generated content is indistinguishable, to most, from human content and, as such, expect to see your service provider of choice start to favour that which costs them less to promote.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'm interested in the subject, but have no interest in what Beato might have to say on it.

[astfgyl]

I've a feeling that this will lead to more people simply going to gigs so they can believe what they see is real.

Well hopefully so. The companies will definitely push the cheaper AI alternative but I think people will prefer the real thing when it comes down to it.

[Eoin McLove]

In the mainstream it will flourish. In the underground people will resist it but you'll no doubt have chancers trying to fool the elitists by creating AI bestial black metal bands etc. Fuck it all.

[Mooncat]

I've a feeling that this will lead to more people simply going to gigs so they can believe what they see is real.

Well hopefully so. The companies will definitely push the cheaper AI alternative but I think people will prefer the real thing when it comes down to it.

It's starting to look like live music might be the final frontier for real music. I'm also hoping it pushes more people out to shows.

Would be cool if real musicianship came back, like a second era of jazz or something, since that kind of expression wouldn't be as possible/welcomed with AI.

[The Great Cull]

Younger people don't seem to give a shite if its miming or backing tracks though. They're quite happy to be part of an "event" so it's only a matter of time until the targeted marketing can work around real bands on a larger scale. Once the older bands hang it up, there won't ever be anyone to replace them on the same scale.

[Bürggermeister]

They will never know the joy of being pinned against the McGonagles stage, unable to avoid being soaked in other men's sweat.

[Pentagrimes]

Younger people don't seem to give a shite if its miming or backing tracks though. They're quite happy to be part of an "event" so it's only a matter of time until the targeted marketing can work around real bands on a larger scale. Once the older bands hang it up, there won't ever be anyone to replace them on the same scale.

Although Kiss no doubt will exist forever as an AI entity.

Yeah this is fucked.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Browsing on Season of Mist's shop to complete an order and stumbled upon this abortion of an AI-generated cover for what looks like a mixed bag of b-sides and rarities, certainly unofficial:
https://shop.season-of-mist.com/fr/led-zeppelin-the-rock-n-roots-of-lp

There's one for Judas Priest and Black Sabbath too, though at least the artwork for those, though also genAI, isn't quite as utterly laughable.

[Bürggermeister]

Although Photobucket did this a few years ago, and lost a lot of their traffic as a result, services pushing back on time-unlimited hosting has simply got to happen. It'll propagate out to youtube, spotify, etc fairly soon, I reckon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69238p5p8o

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Since you've bumped the thread, check out the inherent vapidity of LLMs, played out in real time via this "conversation" between two instances of ChatGPT 
https://www.tiktok.com/@aarongoldyboy/video/7555260691947588895

[Bürggermeister]

 

My wife has been "strongly encouraged" to start using AI at work, she actually works for an older company who have become one of the AI vendors but not in a directly AI-related role, but it is sliding into a "train your robotic replacement" kind of thing, having AI rewrite documents written by humans so it's easier for AI to understand but still having to check every piece of shite it outputs and go again and again until it gets it right. The key seems to be, genuinely, giving it a role to play. It's great craic, albeit terrifying that it'll soon be running everything. "You are a cost-conscious middle manager, rewrite this document emphasising the key points" gives you a very different output to "You are a jaded millenial who has benefitted greatly from deliveroo loyalty schemes, rewrite this document emphasising the key points"