Is the AI audio revolution already here?

There’s totally a “tell”. I hear it as the occasional warble or smear…and everything is just too perfect. But it’s just a matter of time.

That was incredibly sobering and depressing it's made substantial gains in the last 2 months......

I haven’t read most of this thread, I checked out a while back, it’s was way too depressing. I’ve been honestly struggling with it. The only morbid consolation I have is that AI is destroying/altering/eliminating/upsetting just about every industry. I’d hate to be a graphic designer, copy writer, lawyer, fast food worker, etc etc.

I don’t know what to do…maybe I’ll take up distilling whisky, that way I can at least drink myself happy when our AI overlords come to kill is all.

I forgot about that Eleven labs vocal thing.. now THAT was crazy!

And here’s what’s really scary that’s already coming down the pike.

While I’m using YouTube as an example it applies to pretty much anything including obviously music.

Currently an increasing number of ‘recommended’ YouTube videos that appear in your feed are created completely by AI.

From my recent experience I would say around 50% of all YouTube videos appearing in my feed are AI generated.

And these AI video’s use content obtained/stolen(?) from other user created videos and edited often using some kind of frame around the video content (sometimes mirror reversed) and typically with poorly executed speech to text. Often Wikipedia excerpts are included if relevant.

That may not bother some as YouTube has been doing this for years (though not specifically AI) based upon users search history even if they are not logged in.

These recommended videos whether AI or not are taken from the existing YouTube video database. Many of these videos maybe several years old.

Remember YouTube is owned by Google which also collects user data from internet browsing history, along with Gmail, texts, phone, cloud etc, etc, etc. Everything! But hey include Apple, Microsoft whoever you like.

So big tech knows more about us, our habits, likes, dislikes etc than we know about ourselves.

Most have heard of ‘bots’ which masquerade as users in various social media feeds. It has been reported that on some popular social media platforms bots now exceed actual people.

With that in mind picture a scenario (using YouTube just as an example) where an AI video is created within seconds based upon all your individual personal data as you browse the net and then that video is fed into your stream as being recommended.

Not only is this new video using your own data but it is created around your most recent/current search history.

So if you’re looking for say investment related information online, a video or a webpage/website could be created literally on the fly and fed into your feed in almost realtime that is extremely persuasive as it appears to tick all the boxes you have been wanting.

Not only that but this newly created AI video has had it’s creation date and number of subscribers spoofed to fool you into thinking it’s been around a lot longer than a few minutes and the comments section full of positive comments is also completely fake.

This can also apply to news, politics anything.

So who is likely to be behind the majority of all this?

Some pimply faced kid in a hoodie in his parents basement doing it for kicks? Maybe.

But if the tech platform itself is creating most of this AI content and prioritising it over other user created content then that’s more profit for the tech giants.

Not only that but the ability to use this as another means of further dividing and grinding middle class into the ground based upon what has been patently demonstrated in the past few years is obvious.

The ability to manipulate people has just increased exponentially.

The ability for exploitation has likewise also increased exponentially.

This is where it is all heading.

It already is according to a previous Beato video.

The biggest Spotify content creator (by far) was linked to Spotify itself.

I watched the Beato video just now. AI has come a long way very quickly. The sad thing is that many people are fine with "fake" everything. Nothing has to be real or tangible. No physical medium to play music on has sort of led music to becoming a worthless subscription to play anything that's ever come out. Nothing is tangible now, including the artists. Technology has let people with very little inate talent become stars, or at least influencers. I feel like an old man yelling at the clouds or something. Bottom line is that younger people don't want to pay for anything, which makes being an artist non-profitable. The best we can do is write for ourselve and find as many like minded people we can to listen. But, I don't think it will be the masses anymore. People have become very non-discerning. They just don't care if it's real or not because they don't place any value on music to begin with.

I was just thinking about how I could use AI to finish writing songs since it's been almost impossible to find band members for the last 15 years. People were 10x more driven to form bands and write songs in 2001 or even 2005 compared to 2008 and later. I'm sure the drive was even higher in the 90s and earlier. Reading about Disturbed and what they did. Everyone in that band was driven. Musicians like that, in my experience, are incredibly rare to find. The majority of the guys I've dealt with just slopped down whatever, started playing one of the zillions of bars that used to be around here, and thought they were bigtime. Even though no one was into the shows and the majority of the audience was just texting on their phones and doing whatever else the whole time. A lot of guys just wanted someone else to do everything. Write the songs, play the solos, etc. Lots of guys who want the perks but don't want to put in the work. Never have I met so many delusional narcissists than I did when I talked to guys off musician ads.

Liars too. "Oh, what you've got in mind is exactly what we're trying to do". Then you go there and their music is nothing like they said and they treat you like a puppet to order around. Or they try to pass off a cover song as one of theirs and it was the only compelling thing that they played. Just so many desperate, antisocial losers trying to use music to make themselves feel like a big deal. Then when you do have band members, you deal with guys who are incredibly disruptive, are constantly on the look out for other bands to join, etc. So, if AI could take the place of terrible band members, that would be a big relief.

There is a tell with the AI. It sounds less clear, more rudimentary than regular music. The vocals are simpler than what a person would do. But it's still about 85% of the way there towards matching today's computerized Pop music. 6-12 months from now, it will be much better. It's probably good enough for the average person who sees music as background music for their social life. The future is going to be people making their own songs with apps on their phone. I can totally see all the women I follow on IG and Snap typing in what they want the lyrics to be and selecting some algorithm for the music style. Right now they use music as an extension of what they want to express about their lives to their audience. In the past, people would seek out music they could relate to to cope with their lives. So, it's almost like a lot of people are becoming vicarious performers.

Society has already become so corrupted. So many people have lost the interest in or ability to have legit conversations. They're mainly interested in whatever things on their phone cater to their base instincts. Tech-dependence is making a lot of people more primitive as they decide to let tech do more for them and let social media do their thinking. The average person isn't interested in music with the seriousness they were in the 90s. Even as far back as 1998, it was incredibly easy to find serious music people to have these in-depth discussions with.

On the plus side, I was just reading something from Peter Diamandis and Fountain Life about using AI for advanced cancer detection and all this stuff. OpenCRISP-1 sounds phenomenal. This is something that is going to have a lot of positive effects on health and medicine. There's just so much stuff that's advancing as rapidly as AI in music that will make things a lot better. For those that want to go backwards in time, the only way to achieve that is to go forwards. Tech progressing faster and faster is revealing the big picture more clearly. The future is a society where we can largely do what we want with our time, resources are abundant, major problems are all solved, and we can customize everything even down to the type of society we want. There will still probably be Amish communities. Probably some communities where you can make it static, keep it stuck in a year like 1995 but have the advanced hospitals so you don't have people suffering with things like paralysis or dying of things that would be preventable in the year 2035 or 2040 or whenever. And probably cars that don't crash so you don't have that. I'm not sure why someone would want to recreate the past while also keeping the bad parts.

Read up on it yourselves. More and more companies, governments, colleges, etc are coming up with new takes on the same emerging exponential tech that it's becoming harder to predict exactly what is going to happen next. It's easier to predict what is going to be possible.

www.fanaticalfuturist.com/2024/05/profluents-open-source-ai-crispr-tool-brings-gene-editing-to-the-masses/

I might add that a large section of the industry is getting it's just desserts. Most of the music out there is four-chord loop-de-loop, four on the floor, sing-song five note repetitive melodies and lyrics about the same things over and over. If AI can fix that, I may actually start listening to music again.

Pop artists/producers have been feverishly trying to make themselves sound like computers for a long time.
Meanwhile AI has been rapidly evolving to sound like humans.
If they meet in the middle and destroy the pop music business, you won’t find me shedding any tears.

Let them eat cake.

Yep…
soundcloud.com/rs-539916550/soul-of-the-machine