Did my periodic check if GenAI still sucks by asking ChatGPT “what is a Deftones song that is a homophone for processed wood?” (Bored)
How is it legal for an application like this to exist?
It will make infinite background to a lie. I’m a little shocked at how bad it still is.
That’s Clavicular? I think they talked about him on a looksmaxing episode of Kill the Computer and I guess I assume he would look a little weirder?
When I was doing student radio I thought it was a good bit to back announce (say the name of the song that just played) a track from their debut album
The free-association machine strikes again!
You would be scared to turn off someone’s previous session and have something fall onto the floor
I did have a chuckle when one of their sets of candles blew out because it was seemingly placed under the air conditioner
Saw Batushka tonight, very cool experience. They were going monk mode, had some stage props, very showy.
Didn’t play IRMOS I though :(
All well, you can’t expect them to play every song they have
Isn’t what part of what regular people dislike about the Trump administration is it’s deceptive campaign which secretly harboured radical plans for transforming the government?
Guy with a failed podcast: I am an abuse survivor
New Rule: your lists of podcasts you "can't stop listening to" can't include those little miniseries podcasts with six or so episodes. By definition, you can stop listening to them.
Playing up satanic imagery keeps paying off because rather than just getting annoyed that bands are trivialising religious beliefs about the Devil and performances losing their shock value, certain Christians keep winding themselves up that heavy metal is really doing Satanism
Born to spreadsheet (fun)
Forced to spreadsheet (work)
My pleasure :)
I’m not going to sign up so I can get it to generate a terrible map, but I can still catch ChatGPT out of Australian geography for free.
If you are interested in listening to this plagiarism here is a random YouTube upload: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k-5...
And the original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAhn...
I generally wouldn't promote engaging with this stuff, but it is just so bizarre to compare the two.
The fact that I can barely find anyone commenting about this is reassuring: an album like this can't make much headway seemingly. But what it offers, and how seductive it might be for people who know what they like and just want that, is definitely worrisome.
Some of these tracks are a little longer than those they copy. The last one is 16 minutes, much longer. The mere ability to extend a track, much less make a slightly different alternative, I'm sure has an appeal to people (as reprehensible as I find that).
How comfortable it is to just have the pieces of a band you like regurgitated back to you? And while this is an obvious copy, some of the tracks are less clearly so than others.
Just listening to it, it's an inferior version of a lot of Fallujah, lacks soul.
But honestly, I was listening to the real Fallujah's newest album and thought "ahhh nice, they are kind of doing mostly their older sound"
But regardless of if it's AI or not, it serves the function that we are told AI will.
This exists in the weird space of null authorship and serves up the idea of a thing in a slightly different way. It is as if we called for it by wondering if a machine could make Fallujah stuff.
This is where the whole thing gets very strange. Why is it related to an NSBM project, who "made" this music and why?
I ultimately have no idea; I cannot find anything about how this thing was disseminated.
And wait, don't the vocals for the track Hiraeth match with the track that was seemingly released by the actual band on the now defunct Bandcamp. So either this was made by the original artist, or was made to using that material for some reason?
That last track, "Totenreich", that seems like remnant of actual NSBM album that this would be piggybacking off? Why would you keep that Nazi ideas if this has nothing to do with the actual band. It has a bit of narration about the industrial revolution and dying for a cause, kinda fascist...
It's kind of too weird for me to imagine anything else. I don't know how good the tech is in the music realm, but I imagine it's made a lot of progress and doing something it has a lot of examples of (like a band's work) might make it easy. But I don't know.
So what is going on here? Am I to believe that this fascist made an incredibly spot on homage to Fallujah, to the extent of largely plagiarising Starlit Path? To what end, if this got any traction people would definitely call it out?
There is a pretty natural presumption at this stage... AI?
And if you look at the most recent entry the Wayback Machine has for the Bandcamp, you see a track post which was a single released in 2021. The same name as the first track from the new album, but the imagery is black metal and the track length is notably different; 6:08 vs. 6:16 on the album.
Searching for the album in a search engine (in my case DuckDuckGo) you see that apparently there existed a webpage for the album at some stage, but I can't find a trace of it.
Listening to the earlier music it certainly leans a bit more into atmosphere and some decent song writing than the NSBM vibe might lead you to believe, but it's still firmly rooted in black metal, a different kind of music and style.
It's not a Fallujah imitator.
If you try to access their Bandcamp is has been deactivated, and all the other links that Metal Archives mentions are similarly bare.
Checking in on that URL that he had listed there you get the impression of a very different aesthetic style.