Dude from Blake Babies and Lemonheads, music lawyer, former president of Rounder Records (2017-22). Opinions expressed mine alone.
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John P. Strohm retweeted
OK, not to brag or be elitist here but let’s see a show of hands of other artists who DO NOT use Al to write or generate music. ✋🏻
Mikey here is just trying to sell something, but it’s a bad message to send out. It’s worth the emptiness and struggle to create from/with nothing.
AI use is “the Ozempic of the music industry — everybody is on it, and nobody wants to talk about it,” Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno AI music generator, recently said. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic
More: rollingstone.com/music/music…
John P. Strohm retweeted
Another half marathon in the books as the 11th annual Biscuit Ruck/Run finished at Loveless Cafe this morning. Awesome event with a group of men who are becoming better leaders in our community every single day. Thanks for organizing @johnpstrohm! Proud of you guys! @F3FranklinTN
John P. Strohm retweeted
Post-run man with arm. What is model overfitting and how can you tell if it’s happening to yours?
John P. Strohm retweeted
An app that started as a way to share status updates with your friends now undresses people in photos on demand.
Not all technological progress is good.
John P. Strohm retweeted
Spotify Wrapped just dropped so here's your reminder:
Go check out your top 5 artists...
Then:
Buy their record
Get tickets to a show
Join their community
Subscribe to their mailing list
(Even moreso if that artist is still on their way up)
Go a little deeper.
And go direct.
John P. Strohm retweeted
This is the way forward. Ban AI-generated visual art, ban AI music, ban photorealistic AI images of people. Shame corporations that platform and promote AI “artists.” Support human writing and human art.
John P. Strohm retweeted
AI people don't understand what copyright is.
Cameras, lenses, paints, brushes, software, and paper are tools and materials, none of them 'contains a copyright'. They also can't generate previously copyrighted things spontaneously for you.
Books, tutorials, and museums are all things meant to be learned from. Art, art history, and culture are all things you can learn from as well, and if you aren't plagiarizing or using those materials directly in your work without permission, there is no copyright issue.
AI is built directly from other people's work without permission, the models contain weights that essentially serve as compression and CAN generate copyrighted materials, both intentionally and unintentionally. It also competes directly with the people it steals from, which is NOT fair use.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also on record saying generative AI couldn't exist without copyrighted materials.
Pretending that literally every art tool or resource or source of inspiration is the equivalent of mass theft of the entirety of mankind's creative output is not just disingenuous, it's propaganda.
Do not listen to these people.
John P. Strohm retweeted
Spotify refuses to act on AI music - and AI music has now predictably topped the Spotify charts.
People are uploading slop for “streams of passive income”, competing with musicians, and Spotify doesn’t care. This is the inevitable result.
Quit Spotify.
theguardian.com/technology/2…
John P. Strohm retweeted
An AI “singer” with 2 million monthly Spotify listeners is No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales Chart.
It's up to us to refuse to click on slop music.
If we click on it out of curiosity we feed the algorithms, make slop songs hits, then this becomes "the new norm".
John P. Strohm retweeted
Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.
John P. Strohm retweeted
Andreessen is so dogmatically against working on decreasing risks from AI that he’s now mocking the pope for saying tech innovation “carries an ethical and spiritual weight” and that AI builders should “cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work”
John P. Strohm retweeted
For the AI Coke ad, 100 people involved, price comparable to older AI free ads, 70000 AI video's generated.
It doesn't sound like it was cheaper or more efficient & there's the added element of brand damage from people who think it looks terrible and soulless.
John P. Strohm retweeted
Very pleased to see this partnership between Universal Music and Stability AI.
Stable Audio was trained on licensed datasets from day one. It's great to see that evolve into this news today.
Training on licensed datasets is the way.
Onwards.
stability.ai/news/universal-…
John P. Strohm retweeted
💥💥 New lawsuit against AI music company Suno just landed - brought by a group of independent musicians.
The same group of musicians who have also sued Udio.
They say "Suno built its rapidly expanding commercial empire by disregarding the intellectual property rights of the artists it claims to support." 👀
pacermonitor.com/public/case…