Wordplay

joined 4 years ago
[–] Wordplay@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[–] Wordplay@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

With the recent surge of hype around AI Music and sites like Suno and Udio, I thought I would make a post discussing AI music, some tips, and critiques to be had. It also showcases some genre-mixed music that sounds alright.

Not really sure if this will have major implications for mainstream pop music... everything already feels derivative and focus grouped to shit lol

[–] Wordplay@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Also, the Suno wiki is a decent source for prompt guidance.

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AI Music thoughts (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Wordplay@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net
 

Since AI Music platforms like Udio and Suno have been getting a lot of attention lately, I wanted to get some Hexbears' opinions on the matter. Have any of you been testing the capabilities of these? Care to share what you've made?

Udio seems to be trained on a wider range of niche genres, which I think leads to more diverse sounds that are better at obscuring their AI origins. Suno has a much more limited mainstream range, but you can make an entire concept album by extending clips multiple times before you 'get the whole song'. You can also finely tune each clip by choosing to extend it very early into the clip to pick out the best parts (though at that point, why not just make the music yourself?)

So far I've been using Udio to get more diverse samples, combined with an AI music splitter to isolate the good parts. I then plug them into Suno-generated long tracks to augment limitations from the prompting process. The music still isn't great (and my editing skills are dirt poor) but I think interesting things can get created this way. Soundcloud link to some example tracks

Adam Neely just released a decent video about AI music and what it lacks, and so even though the critique of capitalist art production that he suggests is pretty milquetoast, I'd recommend it as a mild antidote to all the AI music hype.

[–] Wordplay@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Jacques Pauwels has a good book detailing both how the Allies' second front was indeed an attempt at capitalizing off of an inevitable Soviet victory (and mitigating Soviet influence in Western Europe in the aftermath), and also how little resistance the Allies faced on the Western Front because German soldiers were terrified of the Soviets and fled west to surrender/be protected by to the allies.

[–] Wordplay@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm in a town where basic shelter is unaffordable and constantly features puff pieces about the plights of our landlords, and the local subreddit has the majority of locals calling landlords parasites. All that's missing is a vanguard that can organize and guide this sentiment.

[–] Wordplay@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Always bring a steward.

HR's first impulse when receiving a serious sexual harassment complaint from my coworker was to reframe everything my coworker said in the most downplayed way. Like a, "oh shit this is serious. . . how do I get this employee to make it sound like it wasn't a big deal". Inhuman Resources indeed.

[–] Wordplay@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Another good one is this counterpunch piece which describes the Soviet rationale around the build up towards the Nazi invasion of the USSR, the millions of Polish lives saved from occupying eastern Poland, and also the wholly justified Winter War up in Finland.

It's funny how weak the propaganda coming out of the west is and has been for the last fifty years. Oh, leader x's actions don't seem rational? That's because they're insane, not because we're lying to you as if you were children.

 

Can someone please recommend me some reading or watching that isn't entirely infused with cold war rancor towards the USSR?