It felt so weird coming back in from the cool air and night magic to a stuffy house where even just the hall light being on felt too bright. I wanted to keep the lights off and let my eyes stay large and dark to see the hidden mysteries. I wanted to just stay outside and bathe in the light of the Aurora Borealis.
I feel like it seeped into my bones. I’ve eaten food from the Realm of the Fae.
In light of AI scraping every available piece of content, every artwork, picture, and song, every answer to a question, and every social media site, I guess it’s shitposting from here on out.
He said he can tell when someone uses AutoTune, and my vocals sounded fake as a result.
I don’t use AutoTune. I don’t have AutoTune. I do use surgical pitch correction software (Melodyne) which is great for tuning up individual words/notes as needed. Because for me, the vocal quality, the enunciation, the expression, and the emotion are more important than being precisely in tune. Plus, being half-deaf, it’s hard to hear my own voice AND the backing track correctly to keep in tune.
I was stunned, then hurt. But there are a few things I’ve learned in all my years on social media, and that’s GET RECEIPTS. So while I was mulling over how to respond, I took screenshots of his messages.
He accused me of using AutoTune, and bragged about how important it is to do vocal comping to get takes that are in tune instead of “taking the easy way” of using AutoTune. He said it takes more work, but it’s worth it. 💀
Saw a post on here recently in my feed from someone that I no longer follow (it was a retoot) and it reminded me that the reason I no longer followed them is because they asked if they could give me some feedback on my song, and I said sure, and then they sent 3-4 PRIVATE messages telling me my voice sounded fake, my drums sounded dead, and proceeded to give me pointers on what vocal comping was 💀
"To some, the prospect of collaborating with the sum average of all artists is[...]an attractive prospect. Maybe you feel you are below average in some areas and the A.I. will therefore raise the quality of those areas. But every percent that you hand over to the A.I. is a percent less of your unique voice, perspective, and intention. And for folks who use A.I. generations wholesale, that comes out to a 100% loss of anything personal or unique that they might bring."
I highly recommend reading this post; it articulates a lot of what I've been mulling over recently with regard to all the AI bros' arguments that AI is "just a tool," and "it's just doing what humans do."
1. Tools don't produce the art FOR you.
2. Humans do not operate like algorithms. Computers do not "learn" like humans.
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