Hey all,
Been slowly getting back into the habit of working on MusicBrainz stuff today, and decided to put some focus into adding relations between songs I like, and the songs they sampled. So far it’s been rather run-of-the mill stuff, something sampling Justin Timberlake, another sampling Limp Bizkit, some stuff I was working on few days ago sampling Skrillex, Tech N9ne, Avicii, list goes on.
However, I decided to see where the vocals came from for one of my all-time favourite tracks, that being cynical by N_dog. Song is fantastic, love the energy the track has, instrumentals are great, love the switchups, list goes on.
Decided to search the lyrics and came across the lyrics through Shazam, which matched them to a track called Fuzzy Love by Diluli. If the album art didn’t already make it clear this was AI-generated, looking around further brings up a YouTube channel of the artist where the banner reads “Applied AI Architect”.
I feel conflicted here with what I think about this song now. The first thing that comes to mind is disappointment that the vocals sampled were taken from a track that was AI-generated knowingly or unknowingly. The vocals aren’t from a real person, which feels it should ruin the immersion, and knowing that they’re almost certainly generated from a dataset without the consent of however many artists is honestly gross.
On the other hand, I weirdly almost appreciate the track more than I did before? The song itself is without a doubt made by a person, it just so happens the sample they used was from an AI-generated song. A lot of work went into it, and the fact that they took stuff that was devoid of creativity and gave it creative life honestly feels a bit uplifting, even despite the fact that the vocals would be much preferred to be from an actual person.
What are your guy’s thoughts on this? Is sampling AI music giving acceptance to AI music as a whole thus bringing the music industry down, or does it come off as rejecting the idea of literally lifeless music by infusing it with genuine human creativity?
I don’t have answer. This something i have been thinking about lately after listening to a podcast saying that most programming productions now employ AI assistants and its become more or less standard.And when going to github to get software, i realized there is no way of knowing which app were coded using AI or even “Vibe Code”. A let’s player i watch has encountered a couple of Games that used AI, especially AI vocals and both her and her audience are now apprehensive(and so am i) about games
Its something i think we need to accept as time goes on, the idea that we can always tell and to be on 24/7 AI alert. Its just not sustainable.
Either way i still avoid AI stuff, especially art but as time goes on, i know i will care less and less. I am still hoping that its all Bubble that will burst in a few years but you cant hold your breathe forver
For GitHub, I was interviewing someone recently who had a large open source project on their portfolio. My coworker pointed out that it had to be vibe coded simply because they wrote an inhuman amount of code in a short period of time. That could be one way to tell.