An in-depth look at the impact of LLMs on music and recording artists, reflecting on Vocaloid's first software in 2004, Hatsune Miku, Drake, and Louis Armstrong
@elite_gz h/t @jjvincent https://twitter.com/... @elite_gz : tl;dr: it's just vocaloid. this technology has existed for twenty years, it's just easy enough to use now to justify doing illegal things with it. what is vocaloid? i explain thoroughly in the piece. what are the implications? i have many thoughts [image] James Vincent / @jjvincent : this is extremely long, but the best thing I've read to date on what AI voice clones will do to the music industry. featuring: vocaloid tech, hastune miku, drake vs pusha t, algorithmic blackface, and more https://jaimebrooks.substack.com/ ... Soleil Ho / @hooleil : take time to read this incredible essay!! https://twitter.com/... Soleil Ho / @hooleil : “I wonder if people are getting tired of artists. It certainly does seem like artists are getting tired of increasing pressure to justify their own existence for steadily diminishing returns. Maybe none of this works anymore.” @elite_gz https://jaimebrooks.substack.com/ ... Jaime Brooks / @elite_gz : here is my latest newsletter. it's about the “AI” drake song, which i don't think we should even be calling “AI.” by the end of this very long and informative piece, you will understand exactly why that is and what it means for the future of music https://jaimebrooks.substack.com/ ... James Vincent / @jjvincent : I found the context for how older tech (broadcast radio and durable vinyl records) created our current idea of what a “recording artist” is particularly illluminating when thinking how new tech (AI voice clones, streaming platforms) will remake this paradigm. compare: [image] See also Mediagazer
This is a really fascinating, quite long article from @elite_gz about that viral artificial Drake song (deepfaked, not AI, don't let anyone tell you otherwise) and how Hatsune Miku is going to fuck anyone trying to be a recording artist https://jaimebrooks.substack.com/ ...
“Advocates of ‘AI’ are pushing for...established artists to ‘open-source’ their names, voices, & likenesses. They don't understand how any of this works, & they don't want to. They're just here to break things. It's all they know how to do.” 🔥🔥🔥 —@elite_gz h/t @jjvincent https://…
tl;dr: it's just vocaloid. this technology has existed for twenty years, it's just easy enough to use now to justify doing illegal things with it. what is vocaloid? i explain thoroughly in the piece. what are the implications? i have many thoughts [image]
this is extremely long, but the best thing I've read to date on what AI voice clones will do to the music industry. featuring: vocaloid tech, hastune miku, drake vs pusha t, algorithmic blackface, and more https://jaimebrooks.substack.com/ ...
“I wonder if people are getting tired of artists. It certainly does seem like artists are getting tired of increasing pressure to justify their own existence for steadily diminishing returns. Maybe none of this works anymore.” @elite_gz https://jaimebrooks.substack.com/ ...
here is my latest newsletter. it's about the “AI” drake song, which i don't think we should even be calling “AI.” by the end of this very long and informative piece, you will understand exactly why that is and what it means for the future of music https://jaimebrooks.substack.com…
I found the context for how older tech (broadcast radio and durable vinyl records) created our current idea of what a “recording artist” is particularly illluminating when thinking how new tech (AI voice clones, streaming platforms) will remake this paradigm. compare: [image]