As a songwriter…. Still processing—and I truly appreciate Rick.

Heck, if anyone on this forum tells me to I will.

it was most likely that Spotify had not only created that band but added many of its songs to a popular playlist for Vietnam War era classic rock.

So it's okay to leave this here as a critique of AI, Swede, especially because of that Rick Beato video.

It isn't okay to accept or promote generative AI, chatbots, etc.

The intent of the theft of the world's intellectual property to train AI has always been for AI companies to replace humans.

Rick Beato - So It Begins...Is This A Real Band Or AI? - UPDATE, July 5
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034147409

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stealing their work.

Unfortunately, on the other side you have not only tech robber barons expecting to profit forever from the theft of the world's intellectual property, but both deluded AI users who are fine with the theft because they think AI makes them smarter and more creative, and a lot of people who are simply idiots who while not directly benefiting from theft of others' work, just DON'T CARE, as Rick said.

And unfortunately more and more DUers are falling into the AI User and Don't Care categories.

We're seeing more and more AI slop here.

I've taken a stand against it. I'm on Team Human and Team Artist, and I don't care if making it clear those aren't compatible with generative AI offends the people who want to use genAI.

show but missed it yesterday because more and more I'm sleeping later than usual after staying up very late - as now.

My comments on the video will be posted below it.

It is late, and I'm tired, and disgusted with all the AI peddlers, so these won't be lengthy comments.

CBS has done a lot of pro-AI stories. Which this one partially is, suggesting AI is just another tool.

And they have the guy who used an AI video generator to create a video for nonexistent AI singer Sadie Winters claim AI is "unleashing creative talent."

That's bullshit. It's exploiting other people's work for an imitation of creativity.

If anything, it discourages real creativity and the development of talent. But it allows talentless wannabes to use AI and try to claim they did that.

The lazy and talentless will welcome that fraud.

And corporations that don't want to pay real artists will promote acceptance of that fraud, and demand forgiveness of their theft of the world's culture to train the AI.

They have to have it forgiven - have to be exempted from copyright and intellectual property laws - because their plagiarism machines won't work well unless they steal everything they can access. And if they are required to pay for what they stole, they'll never make a profit. They're dreaming of trillions of dollars of profits, siphoning off every bit of income that would otherwise go to all those people whose work they've stolen. A theft that's continuing, every day.

Music, books, movies and I suppose paintings, will all be made by AI, and like Beato says, no one seems to care.
I'm an old guy, so I won't be around for this brave new world of BS, for long. What will the world be like in 5, 10, twenty years from now?

With fewer jobs for people, and corporate overlords who are NOT going to provide any sort of UBI, let alone a decent one.

I wish to God that the people who use AI of their own choice - not because they're being forced to by jobs or schools - would stop and think of the harm they're enabling, whether to amuse themselves or save themselves a bit of time.