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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In before obligatory republican outrage and 24x7 media coverage explaining how this comment will doom democrats in 2024

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"The libs are trying to pussify our AI!"

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are they getting the training data from for AI music models? I guess it's the same issue as art and language models, but wouldn't they need to only use royalty free music?

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[–] prototyperspective@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more or less only (that is mainly) useful for building components that you then use in your man-made tracks. It's a tool, just like AI image generators are tools albeit there the replacement use-case is substantial. AI-generated voice also needs to be considered in this context I think.

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[–] egeres@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's reassuring that this opinion is based on many years of experience reading scientific papers, implementing these models and following the trends closely!

[–] MycoBro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was really hoping the comments would be some sort of “what the fuck does he know?”

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[–] Malek061@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And now human music.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow, a word from a global expert on AI, Barrack Obama. I hope he’s a bit better at it than he is at world peace!

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