your favorite song from this ai-generated covers playlist

you would think the ramones would be easier to emulate

yeah, surprised the hell out of me too. hate to go for the nerd chestnuts but it seems like xkcd 1425 applies here.

(yes, i had to google it, and while it's nice that they actually put a woman in their strip as a programmer, i admit to being a bit deflated to learn that the alt tags identify her as "Woman Programmer")

can someone point me to a description of how exactly this technology works and what it's doing, and also how it relates to the Vocal Synthesis thread which is obv using different tech and has clips that sound somewhat more realistic?

anyway, this is supposed to be blues in the style of Chris Rea - it isn't, but it's pretty great anyway

https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787528894

the paper: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/jukebox.pdf

lee - what i think that ai does is just generates something that sounds like any given person's voice, speaking or singing, acapella. the only one of those videos that has a musical background is the sinatra one, and i'm not sure but it sounds like for that they generated an acapella vocal track and inserted it on top of a pre-existing background. what i don't know is if the pitches in the sinatra version were pre-defined. for all of the others, though, pitch isn't a consideration.

anyway, in jukebox, none of the pitches are predefined, the software doesn't perfectly know how to differentiate between "vocals" and all the different instruments, between speech and applause, and rather than strictly generating sounds in a particularly "voice" that match a predefined text - this is part of what it does - it also attempts to create novel musical content in a similar style to the work it's emulating. so the eight different versions of "industrial estate", none of them actually contain the melody (such as it is) of "industrial estate", but all of them sound like songs by the fall, they have some of the, uh, accidents of early Fall songs, recognizable drums and guitars and vocals and so forth.

ok now I'm freaked the fuck out because I am pretty sure I am the only person alive who remembers the source track to this

https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787991059

Had no idea that AC/DC was a sludgy stoner band now

https://jukebox.openai.com/songs/802878241

A demo from Johnny Cash's brief early-'80s flirtation with no wave.

https://jukebox.openai.com/songs/799894093

Almost every Muppets track on there is an absolutely nightmarish audio collage designed to melt your brain

https://jukebox.openai.com/songs/787623133

Thx for the explanations

I think the most amazing thing I learned from all of this is the fact that The Verve Pipe actually put out a Children's album in 2009:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Family_Album

And followed it up with a second one in 2013.

it talks about why it's bad to pass women back and forth, lest you be guilt stricken, sobbing.

can't wait for Leyland Kirby to release 200 LPs of this shit

Okay, I just died

https://jukebox.openai.com/songs/787717459

Damnit, I can't believe I dropped my 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' cassingle in a puddle

https://jukebox.openai.com/songs/787731991

what the FUCK at muppets Baby Shark

since i don't have kids or hang out with people who do, this is the only version of "baby shark" i have ever heard and i am going to believe for the rest of my life that "baby shark" sounds exactly like that

You're in an enviable position. I would recommend that you remain there.

lol, p sure the robot is smoking crack with some of these. Here's 'Nirvana'.

https://jukebox.openai.com/songs/799441342

Also p sure listening to these things is actively eroding the speech center of my brain.