I just got grossed out by artificial intelligence for the first time. And though I was on my way to bed I now have to write this.
I republished one of my old tracks from the steemit days on Blurt.media and well, there is an AI bot active on Blurt now. And it comments on things.
Nothing new, bots have been around forever. But the gross thing about it was the way it commented.
Here is the track on blurt.media - unembeddable on Hive sadly.
https://blurt.media/w/nPKPjPWhxhPoxirDx56JUG
And here is the comment from that 'marvelous beacon of scientific progress':
Now, had this come from any human participant that would be one thing. But this "author" neither has ears, nor can it reasonably judge either my musical skills nor my progress as an artist.
To call this tune "infectious" is outright insulting, and as someone who has majorly upped his studio skills in recent years I can tell you with certainty that this production is neither "crisp" nor "professional". I will spare you the nerdy producer details.
The AI is pandering. It is marketing. Like a slimy salesman, wanting to upsell me. It is intrusion and coercion.
This beatbattle "standing" out is an empty word shell, used in stupid advertising campaigns where no brave selling point is actually allowed to be showcased because the company wants to play it safe and everybody is afraid to get fired for stepping up.
The AI is not curious either, it just wants to be engaged further and potentially lure more details our of me for data collection purposes that I will not be compensated for.
I do not need a cheerleader, nor do I welcome the audacious appropriation of human social skills by a bot that does not even declare itself to be one. It is dodgy at best, and - considering the internet is moving this way fast - malignant at worst.
This thing has no heart and most of what my music is about cannot and will not be computed right by logic. My music is intentionally NOT functioning on that limited Kali Yuga level of existence, which is why most of the value of what was there will be lost entirely by such an assessment of a software program without the inner divine spark.
That is why we are musicians. Music is the language of the heart and will be forever inexplicable to a software program.
It is the sole reason transhumanism is a retarded idea. No offense to the mentally handicapped humans out there, you are just misunderstood.
With the AI though, it is the appropriation angle that pisses me off the most.
Had the thing actually played its role of being an AI, THAT would have added value, and I would not feel "PROMPTED" to even write this. You know - measure the beats, compare the volume levels and sonic density of different parts, compression values of the master - hell, even make suggestions for filter movements, delay times or anything LOGICAL. THAT IS YOUR DOMAIN!
But DO NOT pretend to be a human having a good time listening to my track. You have no idea what music is. AT ALL!
I felt reminded of a time in high school where a gay hit on me for the first time and I got SUPER UNCOMFORTABLE. ahahaha. This must be the sort of feeling women go through on a daily basis when hit on by nasty dudes with no manners or inner greatness.
On another note: This fully automated heart-dead AI dystopia that is coming at us FAST is all the more reason I am so stoked about ICP. I would neither allow my canister data to be scrubbed and analyzed by software portraying its findings in such a violating way and insulting manner, nor would I voluntarily consent to enrich the company behind this AI - Google in this specific case.
The way the current internet architecture is built though, this will not change until things do start running on ICP where I can have and maintain my absolute data sovereignty through editable permissions about exactly which AI can do what with my content and under which circumstances.
It is high time we got control of the internet back before this thing gets hugely out of hand, in case it hasn't already.
But you know, even this does not justify a downvoting function where some self-professed police force will downvote the AI FOR ME.
I will keep my sovereignty and decide that for myself, thank you very much.
I just put the damn thing on mute now, and would configure my blurt frontend the same way, making it easy to filter out pesky appropriating algorhythms that are sure to only increase in frequency and audaciousness on all legacy-internet-architecture social media platforms in the near future.
Thanks for stopping by <3
