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highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)cbabe
(6,407 posts)highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)you were tricked by that fraudster.
dlk
(13,183 posts)n/t
highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)Response to markie (Original post)
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highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)malaise
(294,171 posts)Rec and spread
highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)electric_blue68
(26,416 posts)RVN VET71
(3,154 posts)And here they do it damned well.
electric_blue68
(26,416 posts)highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,370 posts)My maternal great grandparents were Irish famine immigrants who settled in Kentucky.
Have visited Ireland once, decades ago. Can't wait to return! The stout is especially good there.
Sláinte, y'all!
electric_blue68
(26,416 posts)There a sobering Irish Famine memorial just north of the World Trade Center while noting there were other famines as well.
A man-made, grassy "hillside" with real grass, and weeds where an abandoned crumbling Irish home sits.
highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)electric_blue68
(26,416 posts)highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)mn9driver
(4,835 posts)highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(26,662 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,834 posts)highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)demmiblue
(39,471 posts)This cover is created using human music production with Artificial Intelligence-assisted vocals and tools to shape the artistic vision of the channel.

highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)to follow his heartfelt song with a crap version made by a machine, as the ethics-free AI user who has that YouTube channel of AI slop did.
From the description of that video:
This cover is created using human music production with Artificial Intelligence-assisted vocals and tools to shape the artistic vision of the channel.
"Human music production" could mean almost anything, even changing a single note.
This is AI slop, both the artwork and the music. That AI user has no real respect for all the human artists including Springsteen whose work was ripped off to train the AI, and now he's ripping them off even more.
This is an insult to Springsteen and all real artists.
The older videos on Ethan Gontar's channel aren't AI. But a few months ago that unethical YouTuber started using AI to do "his" version of hits by Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran and others.
And now he's used AI to generate a disgusting machine travesty of that Springsteen protest song.
Deuxcents
(26,024 posts)highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)admits to using AI, but only in the description that a lot of people never read.
Deuxcents
(26,024 posts)With AI being so invasive, Im gonna have to learn to check for clues because its so hard to trust anything, anymore. Thanks for the heads up..
highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)I'm not a techie, either, but generative AI looked so potentially harmful as soon as ChatGPT was released 3 years and 2 months ago that I started learning all I could about it.
And still underestimated how much harm it would do, and how fast. It's destroying so much...
Deuxcents
(26,024 posts)canetoad
(20,408 posts)Yesterday I was watching the same channel with an Irish folk version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
demmiblue
(39,471 posts)The lyrics are quite something. Here is a smidgen:
They tried to tell us that black lives matter, and that white people have always been villains
They burnin' flags in the streets, and they scream at police taking illegals to prison
They got rainbows on they bedroom walls, and they swear to God that men be women
They're scrolling through their TikTok's to get the news
They heard that Trump's a fascist, they swear it's true
They set fire to Minnesota, we smell the fumes
They say that guns are dangerous, guess they're the proof
They'll shoot that red hat off your head, then make a meme of your last breath
Cause you're not like them, so they want you dead, but, we'll still pray for the left
They'll say that they're hurt by things we said, then say we deserve it when we're dead
When we're shot in neck with our last breath, we'll still pray for the left
Perhaps youll consider deleting.
highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)a rock version with a male AI voice, the other acoustic with a female AI voice.
Gontar must REALLY like that song's lyrics.
But he didn't write it. It's a song by RW Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald, sometimes called a MAGA rapper.
highplainsdem
(60,836 posts)I'd just skimmed back over the videos to see when he started posting what was obviously AI slop.
