It’s clear to me from the post that to properly enjoy it as performance art, the audience is meant to believe that the music is AI-generated.
I don’t read the post as disclosing how the music was “actually” made, in the most literal real-world sense.
Pretty cool, regardless, that we live in an era where ‘people pretending to be AI making music’ is not trivial to distinguish from ‘AI trying to make music’ :)
I was about 50⁄50 on it being AI-made, but then when I saw the title “Thought That Faster” was a song, I became much more sure, because that was a post that happened only a couple weeks ago I believe, and if it was human-made I assume it would take longer to go from post to full song. Then I read this post.
Having done a bunch of regular-ol’-fashioned songwriting, I actually don’t think it takes that much longer for an experienced songwriting to get to decent-ish quality song. (This varies a lot on how hard the muse is striking me. Usually there is an initial phase where I’m figuring out the core structure and heart of the song. I’m not personally fluent at playing instruments but if I was I think it’d take a 2-8 hours to hash out the chord structure, and then 2-8 hours to do a decent recording if I hire professional musicians)
(to be clear, this is to get “a decent-ish” song recording. In practice songwriting/recording takes much longer because I have higher standards and iterate on them until I feel really happy with them, but if I wanted to bang out an album I think I could do it in 2 weeks)
Yes, it doesn’t say so explicitly, but it’s very clear from the post that it is.
It’s clear to me from the post that to properly enjoy it as performance art, the audience is meant to believe that the music is AI-generated.
I don’t read the post as disclosing how the music was “actually” made, in the most literal real-world sense.
Pretty cool, regardless, that we live in an era where ‘people pretending to be AI making music’ is not trivial to distinguish from ‘AI trying to make music’ :)
Huh. That’s not a possibility I considered. I’m still betting it is AI generated but you changed my odds.
I was about 50⁄50 on it being AI-made, but then when I saw the title “Thought That Faster” was a song, I became much more sure, because that was a post that happened only a couple weeks ago I believe, and if it was human-made I assume it would take longer to go from post to full song. Then I read this post.
Having done a bunch of regular-ol’-fashioned songwriting, I actually don’t think it takes that much longer for an experienced songwriting to get to decent-ish quality song. (This varies a lot on how hard the muse is striking me. Usually there is an initial phase where I’m figuring out the core structure and heart of the song. I’m not personally fluent at playing instruments but if I was I think it’d take a 2-8 hours to hash out the chord structure, and then 2-8 hours to do a decent recording if I hire professional musicians)
(to be clear, this is to get “a decent-ish” song recording. In practice songwriting/recording takes much longer because I have higher standards and iterate on them until I feel really happy with them, but if I wanted to bang out an album I think I could do it in 2 weeks)
Was over two years ago.