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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[–] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ethics aside, can you not hear the noise and artifacts in the vocals? The repeptitive overuse of the same reverb? The heavy handed compression?

AI music keeps showing up in my "stations" and I have to instantly skip. It's just awful and they cannot fix it because they trained the models with highly compressed music from Spotify and it "learned" that compression nouse artifacts are a natural part of music, so now it reproduces and exaggerates them every time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    can you not hear the noise and artifacts in the vocals?

    A parenthetical/quite off-topic aside, because it has not exactly to do with AI music: some songs deliberately have noise and artifacts in order for the listener to achieve specific mental and spiritual states.

    For example, in "Zed Aliz Zed" from "David MLLR", or (it's a quite old song, way before ChatGPT were a thing) "The Stream" from Tanuki Project (also known as the soundtrack from that "I Pet Goat II" video), or "Lilith Enn Meditation Chant" from Satania, among many other ritualistic or ritualistic-sounding songs I'm used to listen to when I'm trying to seek daemonic channeling, they all have arrhythmic noises and artifacts on top of repetitive humming or vocals.

    It's been a long while since I stopped seeking new music, because I got an offline archive of thousands of MP3 files (some I've been carrying with me since the Windows XP times), but I always choose to listen to the same ritualistic ones because I'm not very adept of listening to music for entertainment, also because I stopped doing YouTube altogether (I've been boycotting YouTube for two years and counting).

    !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    can you not hear the noise and artifacts in the vocals?

    No. Just like I can't tell the difference between 1080p and 4K. It also has no effect on my enjoyment of the movie.

    I do detect the empty vocals but I prefer instrumental anyway. Also, this is the worst it'll ever be and it's already this good.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Fair enough, although to me a better comparison is DVD (480p) vs Blu-Ray (1080p). Not a big deal if you watch on a phone, but pretty bad if you try it on your living room 4k TV.

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