Is AI ruining music? (A TED Talk from Dustin Ballard of "There I Ruined It")

[Oopsie Daisy]

TED TALK LINK: https://www.ted.com/talks/dustin_ballard_is_ai_ruining_music

What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the viral channel “There I Ruined It,” explores the weird, wonderful and sometimes unsettling ways AI is reshaping music. With fiddle solos and AI-powered mashups of your favorite songs, he invites us to ask: Are new tools fostering creativity, or just making noise?

[BoRaGard]

1. it's music about music that's about music with music

[sakabatou]

2. I kind of stopped listening to mainstream US groups back in the early 2000s.

These days, I listen to music from video games and shows from outside the US. Dear god, some of the music is beautiful, even haunting. Example:

[highplainsdem]

3. Yes. And that creep's an expert at ruining it with AI. Not going to watch all his talk. First ran across his garbage

two years ago, after one of his disgusting ripoffs of other people's work and fame was posted in the Lounge. That particular video has been taken down because of a copyright claim.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181845815

They all should be.

See my replies 6 and 9 there.

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. I like him and his work. He's very clever.

I liked his Sousa quote. It was ... enlightening and amusing. Sorry you missed it.

[highplainsdem]

6. He's a creep with minimal talent. Can't stand his smirk. Despise his intent to "lovingly destroy your

favorite music."

I'd watched enough of the talk for that Sousa quote at the beginning (irrelevant to AI) and the "Conway Fitty" ripoff of Conway Twitty, which I thought was both stupid and offensive.

I don't like seeing people with little or no talent using AI to treat dead artists or celebrities like puppets.

That creep isn't talented enough to succeed with his own music, so he uses AI to ridicule people with real talent.

Generative AI attracts fraudsters and wannabes.

He's showing envy of talent, not talent. He's unethical, using illegally trained AI tools. He's exploiting artists.

He's despicable.

[Oopsie Daisy]

7. LOL

[SheltieLover]

8. I couldn't agree more.

[SheltieLover]

5. Agreed!

[niyad]

9. Yes. Next question.

[Oopsie Daisy]

10. I only feel that way about f-ing "auto-tune"... absolutely horrible. Worse than a theremin noise-maker.

I enjoy his parody songs, however. His song about "what bro-country sounds like to people who don't know country" is positively hysterical. --- Today's modern-country isn't the country music that I grew up with (I guess that's why I like it better.) But this one captures "bro-country" perfectly.

[Johonny]

11. No, it was hurting long before Ai

Rick Beato has done a great job discussing the collapse of the previous music industry, and the current music industry that replaced it.