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  1. Wait, is that shirt meant for the BIL or the previous poster?
  2. I hate to tell you this, but AI -- like guns -- is not going away. The genie isn't going back in the bottle. There may be segments of the population that eschew it for varying reasons, but they will be relatively small, independently wealthy and not dependent on corporate America for a paycheck. Regulation and protections are a possibility, but I wouldn't expect vast effects in this regard either given current trends in leadership, governance and voting. I have all sorts of socioeconomic concerns about AI. I could easily see it winding up being a complete net negative to the world we live in like social media has been. But alas, I still have to collect a paycheck to afford a roof over my head and put food on the table. So I dance for my corporate overlords like the monkey I am. If my bosses want dispassionate, commoditized and ultimately disposable workers, you got it. Here I am, and here are my concerns so that you know that I told you so when you come back around to wanting passionate, indispensable workers.
  3. Yeah, it's honestly great. If I didn't already have a foundation in theory, and I needed an instructor to really direct a lesson, it might not be as usable. Meaning, an utter beginner might not be able to call bullshit and/or find it as useful. But with at least a working knowledge of theory and the ability to test its answers at a piano and validate with my ears, I can call bullshit and question the answer if it seems/sounds incongruent. I think the big thing AI products are missing right now are domain specific interfaces. You just have the empty chat entry. It's too open-ended and abstract and people have to use their creativity in figuring out how to use it. If instead an app had been built to give a musician-specific interface into ChatGPT being a music theory tutor at learnmusictheory.com, it would get a lot more use in this regard. Like an onscreen keyboard to "play" with a mouse to exercise what is being discussed, maybe midi integration to check what notes you played on a synth and give feedback, maybe a Spotify integration to pull up a song at a specific point that illustrates a point of theory, maybe some "learning paths" within theory as starting points to seed the AI discussion for the complete neophyte. Domain specificity with prescriptive workflows. Most people won't even think of ways it can help them because they just see a chat bar. That abstraction is also part of why it's scary. "Here's Hal 9000, he can help you in every way, will learn from you as it does and may make you so efficient that the workforce doesn't need that many of you." That's a lot more unsettling than, "Here's eMozart, he's going to help you learn music theory."
  4. This is a good post. But, art has long been commoditized by capitalists. There's a reason "starving artist" was a stereotype long before AI came around. AI is just a leap in that exploitation. Maybe a final gambit? I don't think Cuban is 100% incorrect. AI can be a great tool for the artist. I don't mean oh, go prompt your way to "Citizen Kane." But using AI to storyboard a concept? To make a demo to help sell an idea? To rapidly iterate through ideas to get where to where there is a clear vision of what you want to produce? As a means of continuing education to hone your craft? Those are all ways AI is going to help legitimate artists create and/or be better artists without replacing them as an artist. I know a guy who is a singer songwriter in Nashville who is pretty enamored with AI. He's not a starving artist, he's had some tunes cut by people with names you would recognize. He's not using AI to come up with lyrics and chords. He does that. But at that point, he's using it to produce quality demos to shop to people looking for songs. He can go from a song he wrote that he can play on guitar and sing to pseudo-professional and shoppable demo in hours. He loves AI and doesn't fear it in the least. I use it a lot to "hone my craft". One of the better ways to learn music theory right now is to just chat with ChatGPT about it while sitting at a piano validating what it tells you. I say that as someone with a mid-level understanding of music theory that is using ChatGPT to increase that understanding. Is it as good as a Berkeley school of music education? No, but its better than static youtube video content because I can ask questions, delve into what its saying and direct it where I want the lesson to go. Ultimately, it helps me be better at what I love doing at a commitment level I can make. If this is all AI was going to be for the arts, it would be a great and empowering tool. But that's not going to be all it will be. People like Cuban are going to use it as a way to further commoditize the arts. Streamline efficiency and cost optimize its production so the capitalist can capitalize. But, that's not really anything new. AI is just the newest method. As always, its not the thing, its the humans directing the thing that are the fucking problem.
  5. This is why the Alonzo Mourning GIF was invented.
  6. You might want to look into an ekit and toontrack’s ezdrummer or superior drummer, @sidis. I know you wanted to do this as professionally as possible and had the means to do that, but ezdrummer has high quality samples captured very well, triggerable via midi, easy set up with popular e-kits on the market and you wind up with a legit set of tracks for a drum bus in your daw. Screen shot example of a drum bus mix in Ezdrummer. This can be dumped as individual tracks to your daw and you work with them at that point like tracks captured with a mic. I am sure it’s not as good as a top tier true drum recording session, but for the songs you don’t want to sink a good amount of money into and/or to build drum mixing experience, it’s got a serious 80/20 Pareto principle value/cost thing going on.
  7. So speaking of MIDI, I finally got my main board set up with a good midi controller, and I have to say, it's pretty badass for what I'm doing live. It might even be worth the repeated self-inflicted testicular flagellation that it took to get it set up. Anyway, I guess I can add MIDI nerd to my resume. Anyone else dumb enough to do the MIDI deep dive?
  8. If you have a million dollars, you have the same wealth gap between you and a person with one thousand dollars that a billionaire has with you. It’s ridiculous to expect the billionaire to be able to even conceive of the problems of people with a net worth of less than a million dollars, let alone fix them. So why do we keep looking to them for leadership?
  9. I think 99% of our problems are economic. That we are turning into a nation of a really small number of haves and a whole lot of have nots whose futures look pretty bleak. That the culture wars are being drummed up by activist billionaires to get the 99% to blame each other for their life's woes. It's the black person, the christian person, the liberal woman, the conservative male! They are the source of your pain. It's not me, the billionaire CEO who sent your factory to China, or replaced you with automation, who took away the ability for the you to make a living and accrue savings. Sure, those saved wages may have wound up in my and my shareholder's pockets. But, I'm your friend. I just want to make the world a better place. I want to make it great again for you. Trust me. Believe me. Tomorrow is a brighter day. You'll see. Wait until AI really gets going. It's your friend, you know. It's going to help you. It will make you better. It won't eliminate jobs. It will create them! New, unforeseeable industries! And even if some jobs are eliminated, we'll altruistically embrace socialism for the first time ever and give you UBI. All it costs is your reason to get out of bed in the morning. It will be glorious and great and a golden age of prosperity for us all! Don't forget to vote for me on November 13th. Fuck. Off.
  10. Moore almost had it made in the shade. If he had done this when fired instead of chasing his side piece with a butter knife, he'd be living large with a large passive income and zero responsibility.
  11. Not gonna lie, I’d rather go down on a pop tart than a bag of cheese its.
  12. Exactly. No queers were harmed in the making of the statement and no straight conservatives were harmed with apology. Quit being aggrieved pussies.
  13. List should have Aggy on it with a bullet point list of turditions Milkmen posing as cheerleaders “Squeeze Ags!” self abuse of genitalia Home games are STD mass spreader events jizz jars Also Pedo State should get in with one bullet point Mass kid rape and cover up
  14. White collar workers aren't going to replace themselves.
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