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lughnasadh OP t1_iy3rbhh wrote

Submission Statement

Here's a link to the song.

What's interesting is that it's surprisingly good, as the AI nails using the human voice clone expressively. The song needs a suitable emotional register of heartbreak, and the AI gives it that.

I wonder what this means for the future of the music business? Will the biggest-selling artists still be able to make as much money when their voice has been endlessly cloned for thousands of cover versions? Presumably, we will have a future where every popular song has been covered by thousands, if not millions, of deep-faked voices. When will we reach a point AI deep-faked songs outnumber the human ones?

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WaitingForNormal t1_iy3sfxg wrote

A lot of people seem to doubt the ability of AI, but I think you are absolutely on to something. As this technology develops there’s no reason any publishing or production company couldn’t start manufacturing “art” around AI “personalities”. Music, movies, art in general has always been a double edged sword, the money people needed the talented people to actually make the product. But the money people would gladly cut the talent out of the picture and reap pure profits without having to share. It will be interesting to see if any new laws are created in response to this, maybe some kind of “source law”, but I’m sure there will be “legal work arounds” as well. The future will definitely be interesting if AI is going to continually absorb and regurgitate “talented works” in any sort of reputable and “respected” way.

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FuturologyBot t1_iy3wdwt wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:


Submission Statement

Here's a link to the song.

What's interesting is that it's surprisingly good, as the AI nails using the human voice clone expressively. The song needs a suitable emotional register of heartbreak, and the AI gives it that.

I wonder what this means for the future of the music business? Will the biggest-selling artists still be able to make as much money when their voice has been endlessly cloned for thousands of cover versions? Presumably, we will have a future where every popular song has been covered by thousands, if not millions, of deep-faked voices. When will we reach a point AI deep-faked songs outnumber the human ones?


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chronicly_retarded t1_iy4243t wrote

This sucks

We already know they wont be labeled as ai songs and people will pass them off as their own just like whats already happening with art.

This is one of the worst directions ai could have gone.

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chibisephy t1_iy448b8 wrote

Anyone got links to ai-generated music that isn't based on existing music?

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[deleted] t1_iy44c6r wrote

I'm no Luddite but this application of AI makes me so sad.

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J_House1999 t1_iy4a8rm wrote

That’s the way the times are going. You can either accept it, because art has always had huge changes in human history, or you can be a boomer about it. The former sounds way more fun, so I’m gonna do that.

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Uvtha- t1_iy4hftn wrote

Hah, the ole sci-fi dystopia is really getting going.

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Orc_ t1_iy4z49x wrote

> We already know they wont be labeled as ai songs and people will pass them off as their own just like whats already happening with art.

GOOD.

The democratization of art is exploding and eventually it will be automated.

Infinite iterations of artistic pieces, art, music, movies, games.

Most of us are consumers anyway, not artists, we never cared about what's behind the scenes.

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Madock345 t1_iy56j9f wrote

This is so cool. I imagine in a few decades I could listen to any band I want covering any song I want. Mind blowing stuff.

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Reddituser45005 t1_iy5u3zg wrote

I would love to have this to collaborate with. I’m a mediocre musician, a shit singer, and a decent lyricist. I often have a mental idea of what I want a song to be and can build a framework but i lack the talent or the collaborators to create it into a polished piece. I can see this being the perfect addition for any wanna music creator.

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Mash_man710 t1_iy7ls43 wrote

Yes AI will make music but nobody will pay to see a CPU live in concert.

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Nolligan t1_iy7w4i0 wrote

Kudos to the team that put this together but it will be a while before they can craft an interesting and creative cover of Jolene like this one by Post-Modern Jukebox:

https://youtu.be/s60lYl_TeNo

(Not a rick-roll, promise)

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Scitties t1_iy8199t wrote

That's already happening, and I'm afraid a lot of people don't care.

I won't deny that there are a lot of talented artists out there who can give an incredible live performance.

But at the same time there are also a lot of artists with songs that underwent all kinds of digital processing and enhancements, such as autotune. Songs with autotune are still being labeled with the artists name, even if the artist is not able to reproduce the song live.

I see this technology as an evolution of autotune-ish technology. However, I don't know if we should be happy about it...

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take_five t1_iy83blt wrote

Most musicians already don’t make money on streams. I think there will always be demand for the live musician. Until we have musician robots, I guess.

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[deleted] t1_iybo6qt wrote

Well damn, the anime Carole & Tuesday shows that happening around 2072 where all music is AI created and no one bothers to write the old fashioned way anymore. Guess we’re early.

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Cncfan84 t1_iyc4sxu wrote

Meh, it sounds real and it's impressive but it's not great. Missing some emotion in it for me.

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StSalvage t1_iyc8g9h wrote

Avatar "influencers" with their own social networking profiles selling fashionable products for their sponsors have been around for quite a while. Whether they incorporate AI so you can have simple conversations with these things I don't know.

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TheAlgorithmnLuvsU t1_iycx7fw wrote

Yeah except there's a huge problem. The market is flooded to hell in art across the board. There is already too much going on. AI is only going to exacerbate this. Once someone can generate a full song, pictures, or movies/videos with a few button presses its going to be insane. And realistically, no one is going to give a shit. People already don't give a shit.

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OliverSparrow t1_iydrm90 wrote

Don't give up the day job, and - unsolicited advice - do pin down the tentacle coming out of your poorly rendered head.

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