[ExI] Spotify's Attempt to Fight AI Slop Music Fails

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Spotify's Attempt to Fight AI Slop Music Fails

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As Picasso (or TS Eliot, or someone) allegedly said: Good artists copy, 
great artists steal. ...

-- 
Ben

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Ben, this isn't really about your comment, but it reminded me of a fond
memory.  My cousin came from across the country to visit me.  She is a very
talented artist, the kind who is good enough to make a living at it, her
whole life.  She has a technical four year college degree which she got on
full scholarship, but never had a 9 to 5 as far as I know.  Always an
artist, primarily a painter, but also pencils and pastels.

She had a choice of a jillion things to do, but she wanted to go to some
biggie art museum in San Francisco.  OK.  We walked around the place, she
stopped at one particular painting, stared at it for several minutes.  We
went on, she went back to that one, stared, we went on again, covered the
whole place, went to lunch inside there.  Then she went back to that one
painting.  There was a bench there, so we sat, while she gazed at that
painting, studying it.  I couldn't see what was so special about that one,
but she did.  I wondered what was going on in her mind.  She was wide awake,
seldom blinking, eyes scanning every detail on that painting.  I am not an
artist, I have no art in my home.  But she is.  She sat gazing at that one
painting, saying not one word, as if that painting had her hypnotized or
something.  I went to the restroom, came back, she hadn't moved a muscle.
That third visit to that painting lasted for what I think was dang near half
an hour.  Then she abruptly said OK, we can go now if you have seen what you
wanted to see.

We left.  Went home and started sketching in her book.

I am a musician.  I can hear stuff in music that most  people cannot hear.
My artist cousin can see things in art that I cannot see.  I don't know how
the heck that works.

I don't know how we teach AI to do whatever the heck was going on in her
mind that day.

spike