Most noble use of next generation tech
lmao
I love our efficient markets.
Saw a librarian linking to this conference today. This kind of shit really grinds my gears.
âPrompt or Perishâ, get the fuck out of here. I havenât seen a single worthwhile application of this technology for libraries yet, and I doubt I ever will. The rhetoric around this technology is all stick, no carrot. Start looking out for it and you see it everywhere â nobody is promoting this stuff with a good faith promise of real utility, itâs all just threatening you that youâd better get with the program or else.
Iâve found myself a little shaken, working in an academic library, at how credulously and uncritically the people around me are receiving this shit.
Yup, itâs the same where Iâm at in public libraries. I guess at this point librarians are conditioned to immediately roll over and embrace whatever fad-of-the-day tech comes our way. I always want to remind people of all the wasted resources libraries poured into Second Life when that was getting hype. Our profession is so desperate for wider legitimization and for funding that weâre a perfect mark for a tech bubble.
I guess the saving grace is that, since thereâs no actual clear application for generative AI in libraries, the profession has thus far been largely limited to just holding conference talks and panels on the subject rather than really doing much with it in the real world.
All the enthusiasm around me for the tech does make me feel completely insane though. I think itâs mostly people trying to seem hip and savvy and not look like a âludditeâ.
Snoop will do a guest verse for damn near anybody. How terrible do you have to be or terribly cheap, to use an AI deepfake of Snoop Doggâs voice?
ah yeah total nightmare fuel in here
I give the mods a hard time sometimes, but I vastly prefer them over any possible algorithm.
Machine Moderation is a failure, and will always be a failure.
meanwhile on the gamedev subreddit
âAI may be overrunning this website but itâs an important topic that canât be banned from discussionâ
the drake beef/ai stuff continues to be weird
a comedian made a generative ai soul song about the beef
after drake told producer metro boomin to âstick to drumsâ, he decided to have a contest where anyone could rap over a beat flipped from bbl drizzy and the winner would get a free beat from him
this really feels like an inflection point where under the right circumstance a genai song could probably easily chart pretty high (if one hasnât already)
i think what makes me fear this the most is that itâs legitimately hilarious, âbbl drizzyâ is just a hilarious combination of syllables that just sounds funny even if you donât know what itâs about. but this makes it feel kind of like a trojan horse for the ai generated meme era
on the other hand, the stuff that is funny about it is all the result of like people being silly and creative on top of the ai base layer, which is itself pretty unremarkable, so maybe thatâs a positive potential direction for this shit to take
Apparently this is the first official music video created using AI. (I imagine some lesser-known band probably did it first, though.)
I wouldnât mind seeing more things like this but weirder.
I didnât read any of the debates in the comments of the video but of course I can guess exactly what ground they cover. Interesting though that the artist didnât seem to know much about the controversy surrounding such things, based on the pinned comment.
i dunno this is like ten years old and does a simialr thing without being ugly as hell
Daph that is the most disturbingly kitsch video Iâve seen in a long time. Iâll take machine generated horrors over it any day!!
Bullshit imo. Youâve got to request OpenAI for access, their logo/watermark thing is in the bottom right corner the whole time, and the description proudly proclaims âFirst official music video made with OpenAIâs Sora.â
Itâs clear that we are in the earliest stages of figuring that distinction out, and if anything, I hope that the video can play a role in amplifying that discussion.
Whether youâre scared, excited, or undecided about these new tools, they are here to stay. We just need to collectively figure out the most responsible ways to harness them.
The worst kind of criti-hype lol.
This is absolutely an advert for OpenAI and as such it can go to hell!!
(I donât mind the video in itself, I think it makes use of generative weirdness well enough through its dubious quaintness. Some disturbing Sora faces that are mockeries of humanity which I donât think is the intent. Songâs horrible lol)