AI is annoying

Late to the party, but yeah… FUCK GenAI. Here are some disconnected thoughts I have on the matter

My skin crawls a bit whenever I see a pedal with AI graphics.

My school recently had a visiting ‘artist’ who works with GenAI doing an exhibition of her work in an exhibition space that *should* be reserved solely for students, and gave a lecture on “bringing humanity to AI Art.” Haha eff that. Laughable that admin thought this was a valuable use of resources, and other students were just as unhappy about it as me.

I’m a ceramic TA this semester, and I have a few students who have mentioned asking ChatGPT to give them advice on the composition of their pieces, and then asked me for my thoughts. The AI suggestions are always such crap, and each time I tell them to stop using it.


For me recently a huge disappointment has been musicians turning towards AI for visuals— album covers, music videos, visuals for live shows…
It’s honestly an embarrassment that such phenomenal musicians are creating an album that has such offensively bad AI-generated imagery instead of hiring an actual artist to create album art. Prog has always had such a rich link to partnerships with phenomenal visual artists— Cal Schenkel, Roger Dean, PJ Crook, Hipgnosis, just to name a few…

I’ve been seeing this trend a lot more recently with Prog artists, and it’s kinda insane that a genre that once had such strong ties to supporting the visual arts is now consistently putting out hideous looking albums for the sake of free visuals

-In the world of King Crimson, you have Tu-Ner doing AI-visuals for everything, Tony Levin had an AI music video, the BEAT tour logo and visual treatments are all done by an “artist” who specializes in AI, and then there’s that ITCotCK tribute album featuring Todd Rundgren and some other folks with the most atrocious GenAI imagery for the cover, and yeah… really sad to see these guys associating with AI after so many years of partnerships with incredible artists like PJ Crook and Francesca Sundsten

-Tears For Fears with their new live album have been working with a so-called arttist who “specializes” in AI, and they’ve been very defensive of it since then.

-legendary Rush album artist Hugh Syme has fallen down the AI rabbit hole and is cranking out lazy and unattractive shit like the latest Dream Theater album cover…

-speaking of rush, Alex Lifeson’s new band Envy of None released a really shitty looking music video done by another “AI Specialist” for Halloween, and Alex Lifeson’s response to the criticism has been unfortunate to say the least— he seems to think AI is the future of art.

-When I saw Jeff Lynne’s ELO last month, most of the on-screen visuals were atrocious AI clips, which really cheapened up the feel of the production.


I refuse to buy any music that has AI cover art or otherwise employs AI in its promotion.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Late to the party, but yeah… FUCK GenAI. Here are some disconnected thoughts I have on the matter

My skin crawls a bit whenever I see a pedal with AI graphics.

My school recently had a visiting ‘artist’ who works with GenAI doing an exhibition of her work in an exhibition space that *should* be reserved solely for students, and gave a lecture on “bringing humanity to AI Art.” Haha eff that. Laughable that admin thought this was a valuable use of resources, and other students were just as unhappy about it as me.

I’m a ceramic TA this semester, and I have a few students who have mentioned asking ChatGPT to give them advice on the composition of their pieces, and then asked me for my thoughts. The AI suggestions are always such crap, and each time I tell them to stop using it.


For me recently a huge disappointment has been musicians turning towards AI for visuals— album covers, music videos, visuals for live shows…
It’s honestly an embarrassment that such phenomenal musicians are creating an album that has such offensively bad AI-generated imagery instead of hiring an actual artist to create album art. Prog has always had such a rich link to partnerships with phenomenal visual artists— Cal Schenkel, Roger Dean, PJ Crook, Hipgnosis, just to name a few…

I’ve been seeing this trend a lot more recently with Prog artists, and it’s kinda insane that a genre that once had such strong ties to supporting the visual arts is now consistently putting out hideous looking albums for the sake of free visuals

-In the world of King Crimson, you have Tu-Ner doing AI-visuals for everything, Tony Levin had an AI music video, the BEAT tour logo and visual treatments are all done by an “artist” who specializes in AI, and then there’s that ITCotCK tribute album featuring Todd Rundgren and some other folks with the most atrocious GenAI imagery for the cover, and yeah… really sad to see these guys associating with AI after so many years of partnerships with incredible artists like PJ Crook and Francesca Sundsten

-Tears For Fears with their new live album have been working with a so-called arttist who “specializes” in AI, and they’ve been very defensive of it since then.

-legendary Rush album artist Hugh Syme has fallen down the AI rabbit hole and is cranking out lazy and unattractive shit like the latest Dream Theater album cover…

-speaking of rush, Alex Lifeson’s new band Envy of None released a really shitty looking music video done by another “AI Specialist” for Halloween, and Alex Lifeson’s response to the criticism has been unfortunate to say the least— he seems to think AI is the future of art.

-When I saw Jeff Lynne’s ELO last month, most of the on-screen visuals were atrocious AI clips, which really cheapened up the feel of the production.


I refuse to buy any music that has AI cover art or otherwise employs AI in its promotion.
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Thank you, I agree that it’s such a shame that people are using AI instead of real artists. And the result is usually so bad!
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Late to the party, but yeah… FUCK GenAI. Here are some disconnected thoughts I have on the matter

My skin crawls a bit whenever I see a pedal with AI graphics.

My school recently had a visiting ‘artist’ who works with GenAI doing an exhibition of her work in an exhibition space that *should* be reserved solely for students, and gave a lecture on “bringing humanity to AI Art.” Haha eff that. Laughable that admin thought this was a valuable use of resources, and other students were just as unhappy about it as me.

I’m a ceramic TA this semester, and I have a few students who have mentioned asking ChatGPT to give them advice on the composition of their pieces, and then asked me for my thoughts. The AI suggestions are always such crap, and each time I tell them to stop using it.


For me recently a huge disappointment has been musicians turning towards AI for visuals— album covers, music videos, visuals for live shows…
It’s honestly an embarrassment that such phenomenal musicians are creating an album that has such offensively bad AI-generated imagery instead of hiring an actual artist to create album art. Prog has always had such a rich link to partnerships with phenomenal visual artists— Cal Schenkel, Roger Dean, PJ Crook, Hipgnosis, just to name a few…

I’ve been seeing this trend a lot more recently with Prog artists, and it’s kinda insane that a genre that once had such strong ties to supporting the visual arts is now consistently putting out hideous looking albums for the sake of free visuals

-In the world of King Crimson, you have Tu-Ner doing AI-visuals for everything, Tony Levin had an AI music video, the BEAT tour logo and visual treatments are all done by an “artist” who specializes in AI, and then there’s that ITCotCK tribute album featuring Todd Rundgren and some other folks with the most atrocious GenAI imagery for the cover, and yeah… really sad to see these guys associating with AI after so many years of partnerships with incredible artists like PJ Crook and Francesca Sundsten

-Tears For Fears with their new live album have been working with a so-called arttist who “specializes” in AI, and they’ve been very defensive of it since then.

-legendary Rush album artist Hugh Syme has fallen down the AI rabbit hole and is cranking out lazy and unattractive shit like the latest Dream Theater album cover…

-speaking of rush, Alex Lifeson’s new band Envy of None released a really shitty looking music video done by another “AI Specialist” for Halloween, and Alex Lifeson’s response to the criticism has been unfortunate to say the least— he seems to think AI is the future of art.

-When I saw Jeff Lynne’s ELO last month, most of the on-screen visuals were atrocious AI clips, which really cheapened up the feel of the production.


I refuse to buy any music that has AI cover art or otherwise employs AI in its promotion.
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I agree with all of this. I have put a few AI images on pedals but it has been in the spirit of trolling those that are actually trying to utilize it as an art department replacer. It kind of stopped being funny to me so i haven't done one in a while. Anything I've actually involved myself with any amount of seriousness has been achieved by hiring actual human artists.

Seeing how quickly people are embracing ai getting all up in everything, we really are cooked when the robocalypse hits.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Late to the party, but yeah… FUCK GenAI. Here are some disconnected thoughts I have on the matter

My skin crawls a bit whenever I see a pedal with AI graphics.

My school recently had a visiting ‘artist’ who works with GenAI doing an exhibition of her work in an exhibition space that *should* be reserved solely for students, and gave a lecture on “bringing humanity to AI Art.” Haha eff that. Laughable that admin thought this was a valuable use of resources, and other students were just as unhappy about it as me.

I’m a ceramic TA this semester, and I have a few students who have mentioned asking ChatGPT to give them advice on the composition of their pieces, and then asked me for my thoughts. The AI suggestions are always such crap, and each time I tell them to stop using it.


For me recently a huge disappointment has been musicians turning towards AI for visuals— album covers, music videos, visuals for live shows…
It’s honestly an embarrassment that such phenomenal musicians are creating an album that has such offensively bad AI-generated imagery instead of hiring an actual artist to create album art. Prog has always had such a rich link to partnerships with phenomenal visual artists— Cal Schenkel, Roger Dean, PJ Crook, Hipgnosis, just to name a few…

I’ve been seeing this trend a lot more recently with Prog artists, and it’s kinda insane that a genre that once had such strong ties to supporting the visual arts is now consistently putting out hideous looking albums for the sake of free visuals

-In the world of King Crimson, you have Tu-Ner doing AI-visuals for everything, Tony Levin had an AI music video, the BEAT tour logo and visual treatments are all done by an “artist” who specializes in AI, and then there’s that ITCotCK tribute album featuring Todd Rundgren and some other folks with the most atrocious GenAI imagery for the cover, and yeah… really sad to see these guys associating with AI after so many years of partnerships with incredible artists like PJ Crook and Francesca Sundsten

-Tears For Fears with their new live album have been working with a so-called arttist who “specializes” in AI, and they’ve been very defensive of it since then.

-legendary Rush album artist Hugh Syme has fallen down the AI rabbit hole and is cranking out lazy and unattractive shit like the latest Dream Theater album cover…

-speaking of rush, Alex Lifeson’s new band Envy of None released a really shitty looking music video done by another “AI Specialist” for Halloween, and Alex Lifeson’s response to the criticism has been unfortunate to say the least— he seems to think AI is the future of art.

-When I saw Jeff Lynne’s ELO last month, most of the on-screen visuals were atrocious AI clips, which really cheapened up the feel of the production.


I refuse to buy any music that has AI cover art or otherwise employs AI in its promotion.
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Wow really sad to hear that about prog bands. They were the ones who spent years developing chops and writing complex music and now they're using cheap software to bypass artists. How ironic.

This was inevitable in a world where sampled music is the dominant genre and every movie is a remake/rehash/reimagining of something from 40 years ago.
 
Aentons said:
I'm afraid the BS fluff that it creates will become like plastic. The world will be drowning in it.
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I came to say what Andare already posted.


Not only are we already drowning in the craplastic, it is already breaking down like 40+ year-old plastic, and crumbling and turning to powder and so in turn contaminating ... everything. Like crappy old Gibson binding that breaks off in chunks, turns to powder in the guitar-case and coats the case's entire interior and the guitar in its dust.


jessenator said:
I'm all for AI, as long as it's limited to this kind of p u r e g o l d



real talk:

I have to filter every search result for pre-2020 anymore. Hell, there are some valuable resources that were buried in the SEO deluge from a decade ago, and with this bonus, the ocean is more LLM trash than water. They exist only in my mind... far beyond Altman's burning oil slicks
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Was mildly amusing to hear Krab singing that, but AI wasn't able to come up with fresh sea-salted lyrics...


Billie Ocean is not my lobster
Them’s just a they who trawls that I identify as a sea-sponge
but the crab is not my sunfish
Them says that I am the sponge
but the squid’s not got my beach-thong

For forty leagues and forty fathoms, sea-law went over the side
but who can swim when they’re in the sand, them’s gills and glands
Cause we pranced, on the seafloor, in the sound
So take my strong dace
just remember to always sink fish-paste
...
 
andare said:
It already is. A huge chunk of articles on the internet are AI fluff.
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My favorite feature of duckduckgo is easy access to date filtration. I've gotten into the habit of just following everything after the garbage heap of 2020.

I'm pretty sure most good recipes still existed five years ago, anyway.

If I'm looking for something from the golden age, I'll filter back even further before the SEO spam age.
 
Feral Feline said:
I came to say what Andare already posted.


Not only are we already drowning in the craplastic, it is already breaking down like 40+ year-old plastic, and crumbling and turning to powder and so in turn contaminating ... everything. Like crappy old Gibson binding that breaks off in chunks, turns to powder in the guitar-case and coats the case's entire interior and the guitar in its dust.
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One could say AI is a piece of crap

 
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