AI singer-songwriter ‘Anna Indiana’ debuted her first single ‘Betrayed by this Town’ on X, formerly Twitter—and listeners were not too impressed.
AI singer-songwriter ‘Anna Indiana’ debuted her first single ‘Betrayed by this Town’ on X, formerly Twitter—and listeners were not too impressed.
And here come the techbros to dehumanize themselves.
You and I feel. We don’t just generate outputs from inputs, we experience them. The color red isn’t just a datapoint recorded by photoreceptors, it’s a phenomenal experience that “I”, the self, experience as a being-in-the-world. Further, the color red that I experience is not the same as the color red you experience, even though it’s the same color at the same wavelength. Everything we think and feel relates to everything else, and while I can imagine how you might experience the color red and you can provide me with data points to make it easier for me to imagine it, that imagination will always be tainted by my own subjective experience.
To me it looks like you hold a lot of pride in being a human and consider humanity special. Im here to tell you we are no different from amoebas and giraffes. We just specialize in our complex meat computers.
If you took a psychedelic or a cognitive psychology class you would understand through feel that feel is just the result of you being a meat calculator. Our feelings are the cumulative result of all the inputs and outputs. All at once. Slap some lived experience filters for subjectivity and bam.
Feel is subjective. Not everyone’s a vicious crypto tech bro. Open your mind its a good time ❤️
to add to this, what we believe we “feel” about something is our association of a thought with the culmination of our previous memories, along with physically biological influences mixed in. The color red being processed by our brain causes excitement, so it’s used in food to increase appetite, in interior decorating to make a scene more romantic and intimate, used in road signs to signify danger; mix the physiological reaction of something with the personal memories associated with it, and you get your personally emotional reaction.
going further up the comment chain, art doesn’t exist in a bubble, it’s a product of the artist that’s a product of the zeitgeist they existed in. Any piece of art can be picked apart by someone educated enough by the source material and the historical period it was created in; they can dissect the combination of influences that gave birth to the content itself, along with the techniques used. Even if the techniques are “new”, it’s still iterative and a product of other existing methods - either from other artists, or from other fields of expertise.
ais arent meat calculators
I don’t think anyone here said that.
What I’m saying is LLMs do not actually do that. They’re less creative than most animals, even if they’re more technically capable.
I’m not just a meat calculator, I’m also feedback loop of meat endlessly calculating itself. That’s what subjectivity is. When LLMs do this they hallucinate, and ironically while this is considered undesirable I think that’s actually closer to creativity than the song this AI wrote.