People like this really are a blight to society. Just grossly reprehensible in every way.

It’s time for another installment of Good Idea Bad Idea.

Good Idea: Steal music to listen to.

Bad Idea: Steal music to train an AI.

superb sneer in the YouTube comments

@monx 36:10 Mikey hints at the central contradiction of his vision. love that he sees music as more than background noise. But this kind of “interchangeable commodity” is exactly what generative Al produces. It’s similar to a fantasy where you’ll type 'painting of a beautiful sunset" into a machine and then have the output hung in the Guggenheim, as if you made any meaningful contribution, as if the interpolation of training data (infinite in supply) would be special and meaningful to people. We will not escape the tautology that generative art is cheap. This can only be resolved by adding more and more degrees of creative control to the input - controls that demand more skill from the operator - until, finally, we arrive back where we started.

would love to read more from this person

I just started learning to play guitar, but life has become so busy I have not had time to sit down and play in almost 3 months and I am really missing it.

This Machine Plays Folk Music