If you want infinite personalised music, you get an instrument, and learn to play your own.
I can’t think of anything worse than music that’s personalized to me. And I’m not even talking about the many ethical issues around AI either. I just mean it would suck on its own terms.
Why can’t they figure out infinite personalized income instead?
I like music by people who did drugs, computers can’t do drugs.
“You wouldn’t download a brick of China White”
As a musician and composer, I will never ever use AI to make a single note of music, and will never listen to to AI music by choice. I want someone to put a little bit of their soul in every piece they create, just like I do. BTW, Tidal offers a AI music switch if you don’t want any of that crap to reach your feed.
As Mr. Ross once said, there’s only happy accidents.
I’d take a good time, no drinking required, with a group of jolly folk making the most nonsensical sounds than I do with the monotone, self-pleasing notes of a machine.
Shitty moral compass, greedy dumbass, AND bad taste!
Sign me up!!
I’ll be honest with you, this is one of the things I rarely notice when it’s AI, so this is theoretically targeted at me …
… but I still refuse to seek out AI music or support platforms that allow it for the sake of principle.
I don’t want something that was crafted to my taste. I want something so irresistibly unique that it redefines my taste.
This really is the heart of the entire AI pitch; a world where everything is comfortable and familiar and safe and easy and fucking sterile. A world where you never interact with other people because your agents do it for you. A world where you read, watch and listen to endless generic slop tuned to what your tastes were at the moment that you froze them in amber and stopped actually living. A world where digital sycophants tell you how to live and dress and act and what to order at the restaurant so that your mind will never be troubled by a stray thought.
Fucking Christ, I need to go listen to Angine de Poitrine to get the taste of this out of my mouth.
That sounds like a brave, new world
Succinctly put. It is about individuation. I had been trying to figure out what started “the realities of ‘Fahrenheit 451’” and AI is it. People will start telecommuting in a room, like in that book using agentic AI, etc.
Infinite personalized happiness is narcotics injected straight into your bloodstream. Personalized happiness is the trivial null solution of multiplying by zero to solve an equation. It is achieving thermodynamic equilibrium indistinguishable from a static cold dead rock. The more interesting feat is achieving a dynamic happiness and harmonic responsive to the comings and goings of diverse and varied travelers, none of whom are guaranteed to be safe, and for that, are made all the more interesting.
That’s poetry!
wut?
Read it again, and slowly. Take your time to let it sink in.
I’m not even 100% in the fuck AI camp. But I don’t want AI music, I want music from the bands and artists I like. I like finding new music I’ve never heard and adding that artist to my list.
If they have a bad song, or a bad album, I want that. That’s something to talk about to other fans of the artist. I only like songs from 2 albums from Arctic Monkeys, but I really like those songs.
It’s impressive when virtually every song from a band I enjoy. I can rank them in mind, oh I really like three days grace from when Adam was the singer. I don’t want generic this is fine music 24/7. Or even “this is good” music 24/7. Sometimes I like a song because the beat, sometimes it’s relatable, sometimes it’s funny.
I like picking music when I’m at a gathering and people saying “oh my name always plays good music”. Sometimes if I show up late and someone’s playing music, they stop it and ask me to start playing music, that feels good. I can’t imagine just throwing on generic AI pop or something in those situations.
*Edit: I also like when I’m out and about and hear something I like that I’ve never heard, and I get to Shazam it to see what it is, and now I’ve got a new song or artist to listen to.
I wish that me cancelling my subscription would do something. I just know that there will be new generations, new markets that will absorb the loss until they have new users and think of this as the new normal.
I wish that me cancelling my subscription would do something.
Yeah I wish that my limited gestures at boycotting the worst companies would do something, but I have to remind myself that even if I’m not going to take down Nestlé, Starbucks, Tesla et al single-handedly, at least I’m not being complicit.
The worst is that statement sounds so much like he never had any emotion listening to music.
He was never blasted by something he couldn’t imagine before, and he thinks finding new things one like is just a mash-up of what one has heard before already.Are these guys fucking humans??
Welcome to the concept of psychopaths.
They gave up their humanity to be what they are.
I don’t get it. If new music stopped getting made right now, I’d still have enough music to last many lifetimes. I don’t need a regurgitation machine to come in and spew slop into my ears.
Me who listens to the same 5 albums on YouTube for free over and over.
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Reminds me of a part of reading Mother Horse Eyes, where a person is basically living in VR.
AI could never make anything new. It could only remix existing things to make them seem new. People would put together some of those mixes to make a better experience, but eventually they also got replaced with AI. That’s when the demons showed up.
