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AI music is objectively good and getting even better and that's a good thing for me as a music consumer. (feddit.uk)
submitted 16 hours ago by Iconoclast@feddit.uk to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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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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[–] DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 73 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I just think people understand modern colloquial use, even if OP below erroneously declares it was intentional. In the same way we can parse "I could literally eat a horse right now" as, in fact not literal, we can likewise parse the colloquial use of "objective" in this case.

[–] DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I object to the death of literal, as well. These things only happen if we collectively allow it, and I’d rather not. Especially with the declining literacy rate.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

You're welcome to do so, honestly probably even right to, but know that unfortunately to the majority who have integrated the colloquial use you're probably going to come off similar to the guy who insists on using the "Þ" instead of "th."

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

No. It's not the same as "literal/figurative". At least not yet. And it's important that we don't allow that to happen to these words as well.

Language directly informs our thoughts. Like literally, we think in our respective language, and controlling/molding that is an extremely powerful tool of control and oppression. Perhaps the most powerful. Read 1984 if you want someone to explain it much better than I ever could.

We cannot allow words like "objective" and "subjective" to colloquially mean the same thing. It will just continue making it more and more difficult for people to grasp what's real and what is not.