I’ve been posting ai videos and following the viral spread. Yesterday I watched a US Senate hearing with CEO of open ai and a couple others. It was sad watching those DC Morons with their prepared talking points, like they have a clue. The only Senator with any serious content and questions was Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee. Her focus was based on the musicians in Nashville, so her questions were about copyright, intellectual property, royalties etc. There were no answers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is another jive ass, imo. They / he talks like he’s a pawn in the game,(BD) I don’t buy it.
More to come-enjoy the view.
The Drake video, I’ve been checking him out, since he was plagiarized and his voice copied. I like his mixes I’m not a fan of the (n-word) every paragraph The thing I find interesting in these “beats” as the kids call it is the form. Of coarse all traditional music theory is gone. These things are usually 1 chord with a couple progressions. The tempos have gotten very slow in music, it’s not electronic dance. There’s a certain groove here that I find hip. Much is the minimalist construction of layered instruments. Many of these things could be elevator or phone hold loops. Without the lyrical poetics aka, rap.
Interesting things about this track are how out of sync the added percussion and other fills are. In old days, those things would be laughable, redone . They sound like a Middle School drummer playing a fill, sometimes rushing sometimes dragging.
The thing about ai being able to copy music, is because it’s so dumbed down and not played by real musicians. Synths, drum machines and voice vocoders are easily reproduced by the ai google, ChatGPT, machine. It searches the global web to find what you type in.
I am starting to see and hear some good reproductions of genre it’s not all stupid and dumb. I haven’t heard anything that swings, not that anyone wants it to. Snarky Puppies gig is secure, or maybe it’s not. BaDaBoom