[ExI] AI-generated music videos

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 08/09/2026 00:01, MB wrote:
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>> What I mean is, it's so false. You must have had the experience of some salesman/woman trying to be 'friendly' and coming over as totally insincere. This is like that, only from 360 degrees, and relentless. I find it horrifying.
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>> The reason it's a bad thing is because it's utterly false, and sets up unrealistic expectations. Haven't we had enough backlash against airbrushed magazine cover models, anorexic fashion models, etc., for that to be obvious?
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> Ben, I didn't like it either.  The plastic cloned people,  the fake 
> plastic grins, it never let up. I had a neighbor who looked kinda like 
> she could have been their model, but she was just one girl and very nice.
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> I listened for a bit and turned it off.  Personally I like some country 
> music, at least like it better those other styles that "sing" about 
> hitting, raping, killing.  Yuk.
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> If this is a good example of AI then I'm not too worried about it (yet), 
> it's too fake.


I reckon that country music (if that example is representative) and (c)rap 'music' (which hardly counts as music in my opinion) are opposite ends of a spectrum. Or one extreme end of a spectrum, depending on how you structure the spectrum. The majority of the spectrum contains listenable, if anodyne, music, and a small part of it contains music that is variously good, great, fantastic and sublime. I don't think AI has generated any examples of the last two types of music, but I have heard good examples of AI generated classical music, and I'm sure there are many examples of routine pop, which tends to be very boring these days, at least to my ears.

I doubt that you could call that video a 'good example' of AI generated music video. If you're into things like K-Pop or game music, there are probably some much better examples.

One thing that occurred to me this morning is that I probably don't like the video that spike provided because of the 'uncanny valley' effect. The characters just don't behave in a human-like manner and don't look real. Maybe that's enough to explain my dislike of it. I'm probably overreacting to the actual music. I'll try listening to the music without looking at the visuals.  When I feel brave enough.
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Ben