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I have a very pragmatic view on music: all I care about is whether it sounds good or not. That's it. That's literally it. And from that standpoint the advent of AI music has been a major net positive for me.

You can choose to ignore that and come tell me about the ethics of using AI or how you care about the story behind the song and so on and that's all fine but just note that you're no longer addressing what I'm actually saying here.

I'm also not claiming it's great - only that it's good. I've yet to discover an AI song that I go back to like I do with many human-made songs but if I want to put on a playlist playing in the background then one consisting of entirely AI-made music reliably provides me well above average track after another whereas with organic music I need to sift through a ton of absolute crap to stumble upon the occasional good track that still rarely exceeds what AI is able to output. I can go on YouTube and put on a 2 hour playlist of Jazz House or similar and I don't get the urge to skip a single track.

Currently I feel like where AI still trips is lyrics - they still are only plausible sounding nonsense once you actually start paying attention to it but especially for instrumental music it has far exceeded the level of a good average human artist.

Few examples of what I'm refering to: with vocals and without.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Initial response:

Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha hahahahahah

Additional response:

You just took a shit on human creativity and posed it as a discussion about whether human creativity should be shit on.

[-] tgirlschierke 18 points 2 days ago

Wow. Horrible take. Unpopular for a reason. Upvoted.

[-] binux@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

AI music is objectively good

Asserting a point of view about art — an inherently subjective medium — all while claiming that it's objective is probably one of the most blatantly idiotic things a person can possibly say and stand behind. And that's not even mentioning how you're literally on a community all about opinions.

Regardless you definitely posted this in the right place so credit where credit's due I suppose. Enjoy your algorithmically-generated slop. A poorly-made piece of art with real human soul and intent behind it will always be infinitely better than even the best possible "creation" of the product of automated theft and assembly of human knowledge and creation.

[-] mishielda1234@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Man this is the worst fucking take I've heard all week

Have my upvote

[-] BeardededSquidward 13 points 2 days ago

This is a very good unpopular opinion. It's actually unpopular and outs the user as an AI bro who wouldn't know how to make a decent beat to save their life.

[-] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

who wouldn’t know how to make a decent beat to save their life

That is true and also completely unrelated to the discussion.

[-] BeardededSquidward 7 points 2 days ago

It is related to the discussion because appreciation of media comes from a basic understanding of it. Not saying expertise here, but knowing what it takes to make something allows you to appreciate it.

In addition, it kind of cements the belief that people who like AI art and consider it the same as non-AI art tend to be devoid of artistic appreciation.

[-] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

If that's the cartoon image that helps you to fit me into your "AI bro" category then by all means. Nothing for me to gain here even trying to convince you otherwise. I just don't see what you're hoping to achieve with this.

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[-] Hawanja@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hey, I get it, you just have zero respect for the effort, creativity, imagination, or sacrifice that an artist has to put in to create a work thats any good. To you, art is merely a product. Who cares who made it, how it was made, or what it even means, or if there was any meaning at all.
I totally understand. I went to the store yesterday and they had this hand crafted chair made of high quality wood for sale for like $300. Fuck that! I'll just go buy a cheap plastic piece of garbage chair pumped out by the thousands in a Chinese factory. I mean it's just a chair, right? It has one job, who cares what it's made of. "Quality, Shmality!" I say.
I just wish more people would understand this, like I entered this fighting game tournament last month. But I'm really ass at Street Fighter, so instead I wrote this bot that would play the game for me so I'd win with double perfect every time. Can you belive they kicked me out for cheating? CHEATING! What kind of shit is that? I just used a helpful tool to totally do all the work for me as my only contribution was giving broad parameters while the computer program makes literally every other decision. The audacity of these people! Don't they understand this makes me a champion gamer?

[-] Lemmert@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't really use quality as the differentiating factor but more meaning. Which fits more with the effort, creativity, and sacrifice you're mentioning. Something can be mass produced and still be of a fine quality, but it usually won't have much of a story behind it, nor does it usually have sentimental value.

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[-] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

I want it to sound good

I like AI music

Buddy, no

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[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

jesus man, music - art - is about feeling something. what the fuck

Unsettling is a feeling of sorts

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[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 126 points 3 days ago

That for sure is an unpopular opinion and I also strongly disagree.

So, take my upvote ;-)

Apart from that, In my experience there is such an incredibly large pool of great music I haven't even heard yet, that the avalanche of AI generated music does not even improve the useful quantity for an individual in a significant way, not even talking about the quality.

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I can't wrap my mind around this at all. Music is the result of people making music. If there is no artist, no perspective or feelings it's just sounds.

Sure I can't sing, so what I as an average person make could not even charitably be called music either, but that is not the point - I want to go to concerts and see bands play music, and want computers to do grunt work that people don't want to do, so that more of us can do better things.

Using an AI to make musical sound just undermines all that. Tech in music being wielded by humans, yes that is music (DJs) and if machines ever develop sentience I will call their sounds music, but not before.

Have my upvote.

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[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lemmy showing again it can't handle any diverging opinions on ai, and moreover completely missing the point of this community.

While I don't personally share your opinion, I don't fault You for it. And I certainly agree that the output is getting better, just as it is for other generative areas like images and video. There will come a time when it will be impossible to distinguish unless explicitly stated by the creator. It's inevitable.

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Once again, the general populace can't handle someone saying that not ALL genocides are bad!! Eventually, everyone will be participating in genocides! It's inevitable!

AI is objectively terrible in every way for society. There are basically 2 redeeming qualities that only marginally improve on what we already have. Everything else is IRREDEEMABLY EVIL.

i will not entertain arguments otherwise because those people are objectively STUPID.

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[-] BeardededSquidward 5 points 2 days ago

Ahh yes, we must accept every view point and opinion that goes against our rational thinking because someone thinks it's valid. I love when people argue that X is a hive mind when they show more instances of blindly believing what they're told.

[-] Lemmert@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

He never told you to accept them though. You can not agree with someone and still be civil about it.

[-] MahouOwl@piefed.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Yup. I don't agree with his AI music take either. But Unpopular Opinions of all communities should be one where people are civil about, you know, unpopular opinions. If anything, saying it's "objectively good" is the thing worth criticizing here, because that makes it seem like a claim, rather than an opinion.

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[-] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 68 points 3 days ago

Unpopular, yes, but also an objectively wrong use of objectively. Subjectively you find that music enjoyable, but objectively it's a statistical average of the bog standard crap you can find on on basically any radio station. Nobody can stop you from enjoying that, but don't think it makes your personal taste anything other than statistically average.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago

I have a very pragmatic view on music

You're quite self aware in your assessment, you just don't realize that being "pragmatic" about music is like being "efficient" about sex; you're doing it wrong.

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[-] DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 91 points 3 days ago

I can’t believe nobody’s called you out on not knowing what “objectively” means yet.

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[-] Frigidlollipop@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Just sucks the ai learned it by stealing. Valid take though, I guess. It feels a lot like saying, "factory farming is great for me. All I care about is meat that tastes decent. That's it."

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[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hate every sentence I just read. Take the upvote. AI music is the music for people who say they like all kinds of music. Music with no taste. Its like saying you could cook a potato a million ways but your favorite is raw.

Edit: since the music you posted is a pale imitation of trip hop please listen to something with some artistic value that might make you feel something.

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[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

It violates my sense of decency that you think a communicative medium can be replaced by something that can't communicate.

... You get a upvote but I'll be mad the entire time doing it

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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I enjoyed Mr. Krabs singing Stronger.

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 30 points 3 days ago

Downvoting not for the unpopular opinion, but for not knowing what "objective" means

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