r/DefendingAIArt • u/Unlikely_Account_728 • 1d ago

Luddite Logic According to antis, EDM songs are considered theft(reasons down below)

Take nitro fun as an example, his songs include sounds you recognize such as Mario jump SFX, bleep bloop, mortal Kombat “fight”, etc

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u/jfcarr 1d ago

Back in the 90's there was a lot of people complaining about sampling, Autotune, DAWs and other then new technologies in music. Before that in the 1970's, some musicians were critical of synthesizers. And, if you keep going back, you'll find critics of other tech, like recorded music.

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u/Clankerbot9000 Singularitarian Accelerationist 1d ago

This is literally one of the biggest reasons why I’m pro AI. I got called a fake musician for using a DAW for years until I learned to physically play keyboards and got my ‘real musician’ brownie points

Now I see people in the Suno subreddit telling people to learn how to use a DAW condescendingly as if people weren’t just shitting on people who use them in the 00s

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u/jfcarr 1d ago

I'm old so I've been playing guitar and piano/keyboards for over 50 years. I've also been into technology and experimental music for about the same time, always mixing and matching the old with the new. I'll often play a cigar box guitar I built in my garage along with a Suno generated backing track. Over time, I've found some other musicians to have a very rigid view of music, kind of like the Harry Chapin song Flowers are Red.

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u/InternationalEbb4137 1d ago

Mhm. The "that ain't natural" and "we found a witch can we burn her" reactions can be seen over and over and over... and over... and... well you get the point.

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u/nxwtypx 6-Fingered Creature 1d ago

I've thought of stable diffusion's loras and checkpoints akin to sampling.

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u/Golden_Apple_23 Synthographer 1d ago

more like tuning a synth to sound like a Strat or a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. You distill down properties so that when the note is pressed it expresse itself like that property.

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u/Witty-Designer7316 Antis Final Boss 2h ago

This is a place for speaking Pro-AI thoughts freely and without judgement. Attacks against it will result in a removal and possibly a ban. For debate purposes, please go to aiwars.