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RIP, Captain Dunsel of the music industry.
a year ago
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A new AI has made the scene that just threatens to torpedo the whole music industry in one fell swoop.
For all my life, computers could 'talk'. It was quite soulless and a novelty. In fact, I may never forget pushing in a few chapters of Plight into this vocal reader I had for a project from six or so years ago and trying to listen to it on a trip down to a con. In short, I couldn't stand more than a couple miles worth.
But now... the thing can sing. And what a step it has taken.
Yesterday, I let some of the works from others play in the background as I did some dirty dishes. Although something felt off, it was definitely something to behold. And I can easily see whole on-line radio stations springing up from this thing as soon as they can get dedicated server access. Not to mention those pesky strikes on videos for 'no permission songs' that the bot detects. Heck. Anything entertainment based is quaking in the shaking of this new technology.
Today, I logged in to this Udio thing. No waiting lists needed. Super simple. 'Here's your ten free credits for today.' And I went in with one simple idea in mind: To give my Teela Rose a theme song. Selected a few style themes. Typed in a couple sentences to describe her mission.
What came out... oh, my Lord. It is like the thing had pre-interpreted her whole back story and put it into lyrics. And wrapped it up in this session that sounded like I had handed Enya a couple thousand to record it. Or, at the very least, created a credits song for an anime show.
Anyhow, my next step is to generate a couple images in this AI art program and see if I can get a background going before uploading the piece to YouTube. Then awaiting to see if the bots swarm into copyright claim something that legally can't be copyrighted. With eventual hope, maybe the whole show can start to come together.
Oh... and Captain Dunsel is a Starfleet Academy slang term for a part that no longer serves any useful purposes from Star Trek. This AI thing is good for me when I consider myself too broke to commission for anything, and yet want to produce something. But very bad for anyone who has hopes of making a career around artistic mediums and has built this career for all their lives, only to see it crumble in a matter of hours by the onslaught of technology. On my personal side, technology could take my only income away at any point without having any feelings about doing so. Nobody is immune to this new phase in Humanity.
EDIT:
Anyhow... I've spent the last four hours trying to learn how to work with some overly complicated video editing software to push forth what I coaxed out of the AI machines. The images were slowly pumped out as I had an eight-plus session of relaxation in front of YouTube. (A lot of distraction came with trying to see how naughty I could get that AI to be. And what an X rated show it put out.) The music was shockingly easier to create. A couple lines of text, and I had a whole Enya session... that didn't cost everything in the bank to produce.
Just got it uploaded. So here is the test footage for "Teela Rose's background story. - Plight of the Rose".
Maybe in a few days, I'll see if I can get the Darosia scene that keeps banging around in my head. Or probably do some yard work, instead.
For all my life, computers could 'talk'. It was quite soulless and a novelty. In fact, I may never forget pushing in a few chapters of Plight into this vocal reader I had for a project from six or so years ago and trying to listen to it on a trip down to a con. In short, I couldn't stand more than a couple miles worth.
But now... the thing can sing. And what a step it has taken.
Yesterday, I let some of the works from others play in the background as I did some dirty dishes. Although something felt off, it was definitely something to behold. And I can easily see whole on-line radio stations springing up from this thing as soon as they can get dedicated server access. Not to mention those pesky strikes on videos for 'no permission songs' that the bot detects. Heck. Anything entertainment based is quaking in the shaking of this new technology.
Today, I logged in to this Udio thing. No waiting lists needed. Super simple. 'Here's your ten free credits for today.' And I went in with one simple idea in mind: To give my Teela Rose a theme song. Selected a few style themes. Typed in a couple sentences to describe her mission.
What came out... oh, my Lord. It is like the thing had pre-interpreted her whole back story and put it into lyrics. And wrapped it up in this session that sounded like I had handed Enya a couple thousand to record it. Or, at the very least, created a credits song for an anime show.
Anyhow, my next step is to generate a couple images in this AI art program and see if I can get a background going before uploading the piece to YouTube. Then awaiting to see if the bots swarm into copyright claim something that legally can't be copyrighted. With eventual hope, maybe the whole show can start to come together.
Oh... and Captain Dunsel is a Starfleet Academy slang term for a part that no longer serves any useful purposes from Star Trek. This AI thing is good for me when I consider myself too broke to commission for anything, and yet want to produce something. But very bad for anyone who has hopes of making a career around artistic mediums and has built this career for all their lives, only to see it crumble in a matter of hours by the onslaught of technology. On my personal side, technology could take my only income away at any point without having any feelings about doing so. Nobody is immune to this new phase in Humanity.
EDIT:
Anyhow... I've spent the last four hours trying to learn how to work with some overly complicated video editing software to push forth what I coaxed out of the AI machines. The images were slowly pumped out as I had an eight-plus session of relaxation in front of YouTube. (A lot of distraction came with trying to see how naughty I could get that AI to be. And what an X rated show it put out.) The music was shockingly easier to create. A couple lines of text, and I had a whole Enya session... that didn't cost everything in the bank to produce.
Just got it uploaded. So here is the test footage for "Teela Rose's background story. - Plight of the Rose".
Maybe in a few days, I'll see if I can get the Darosia scene that keeps banging around in my head. Or probably do some yard work, instead.
For now, the Udio one is free and giving away ten credits a day. That's about half an hour or so to make some great beats as they figure out how to ruin the whole music industry in no time, flat.
The bigger picture is who is going to be paying anything when this AI stuff takes all the jobs away? I've very aware that I am merely a stand in for my cheaper robotic replacement. As is this new music monster going to take away most of the music industry in one swipe. The thing is learning fast how to send Earthquakes under Hollywood... so to speak. I was going to say artists... but in reality, nobody is safe. I just hope that they can create some AI's to help pay everyone's bills when everything changes.
Besides, I'm not being sucked into this AI stuff. I'm thinking about how to survive it without running to the caves to sacrifice technology. After all, if the Amish can find a place for computers in their views of avoiding technology, then I plan on harnessing this new thing to avoid being plowed under.
And knowing that I'm not smart enough is a good step towards avoiding the coming storm.