Country Mike’s Gr(Ai)test Hits 2023 - By CosmoKramer

[bigfatlove06]

This is a funny and fun project released by CosmoKramer. (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FSbCbMSuRrrs%3Fsi% 3DQl4kbgmWwc1uN9_2%26fbclid%3DIwAR2nTsat8TNd4Cgrij AGoiLl66VhgIYNybgsUOOm0jgNPP_EPII9a09kipc&h=AT0mDwiKxNHvbhk6UUijXJNb_mkUX6rdeNAZcz1TARcHNR9h hDw4bZVBNT_acJki33xbXIgEeugCM4z3iOoEuTlCQZN-IjOP7wZGjKTgxjQ-JVtluMigQeAu7vUQjoptRoXuBYLzf9hkF3G5zCKz8g) AI was used to model Country Mike's voice and then used to cover some "unpopular songs and not toooo much singy songs, some funny ones too".

Personally, I love it because it was done in the spirit of the original release.

"I've been working on something that probably nobody ever wanted or ever expected to hear again, but I think you guys might appreciate it." (CosmoKramer)

Download Link (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fdrive%2Ff olders%2F1z5vbkbLZrOM8h7xIQyUr6WRWlD_wRk-i%3Fusp%3Ddrive_link%26fbclid%3DIwAR3B4fq3aVKiA4M-e9Nt7mxKCJds2w1rH2WIQMRZOJYeaMubFvgBV_QRoUc&h=AT0Mj114SuAQJtG7UloXcODcGTCrauqZnzbcCm6YqQrDPkzG uOUByzBiIleJGnrRpIN3P684ZxNnt85mI0Nn9vk5VRBBfu-gDi5ZI41nrv5DKxyWX-K5tIjn3vEayKSNGcHtuLENslBDZ-Sw1b8FsA).

[dust monkey]

since AI is dropping songs, some of which are REALLY good, from artists like 2pac and big, i can't help but to be terrified of what someone might do with yauch.

that said, agreed on "in the spirit of..." for a country mike thing. that's completely different than using AI to remake desperado or some new beastie song. that's hologram level BS. IMO. and i don't want to hear it.

but i swear to god i heard a 2pac diddy diss track that was 1000% seamless. there is NO way i would have thought it's not real.

[tuc70021]

Who’s ready for a big digression!?


I have experience with AI from a programming background (back when it was called Machine Learning...well actually back when it was called Big Data), and I see concerns over the course of AI in art as the latest phase – albeit a very weird and intense one – in general panic over what is “real” in art. Sticking to music: we’ve always been kind of concerned over whether what we’re hearing is real, and usually the older generations are the ones bemoaning it. Guitar peddles produced sounds that real guitars couldn’t make. Synthesizers produced sounds of instruments that weren’t there. Vocoder tools made people since notes that they didn’t. You can have a song that has non-existent notes sung over instruments that weren’t in the studio.


What we’ve got now is the fulfillment of that: the artist of the track never even conceptualized the track. Mike D didn’t sit down and decide to do this, but some other guy did. So there is still a human hand in bringing AI music to life, and I suspect there will be for a while because AI is not yet at the place where it does much “original” processing. In fact, AI regresses toward the mean, so a person still has to be the one that creates that “spark.” One day that will probably not be the case.


Regardless, I think the panic over AI music is legitimate, but I think the response might be fairly simple; the punks figured it out years ago. What is the panic? That humans will be irrelevant in art. That we’ll never be able to create something that AI can’t create faster (the infinite monkeys with typewriters dilemma). So let’s stop focusing so much on the product (a tall order, admittedly) and instead focus on the process. DIY. If you want art to be meaningful for humans, focus on the humans, and do the art. A drummer in Thailand is not creating anything that a bot couldn’t, but he is a human doing a thing, and maybe that’s what we’ll sell and buy, whether with money or cultural currency. We’ll probably still buy the AI art too, just like sometimes I want to listen to a moving piece of traditional Chinese music, and sometimes I want to blast Easy Lover.


And what better way to end a pointless treatise than on a Phil Collins reference?

[Jiberish]

Who’s ready for a big digression!?


I have experience with AI from a programming background (back when it was called Machine Learning...well actually back when it was called Big Data), and I see concerns over the course of AI in art as the latest phase – albeit a very weird and intense one – in general panic over what is “real” in art. Sticking to music: we’ve always been kind of concerned over whether what we’re hearing is real, and usually the older generations are the ones bemoaning it. Guitar peddles produced sounds that real guitars couldn’t make. Synthesizers produced sounds of instruments that weren’t there. Vocoder tools made people since notes that they didn’t. You can have a song that has non-existent notes sung over instruments that weren’t in the studio.


What we’ve got now is the fulfillment of that: the artist of the track never even conceptualized the track. Mike D didn’t sit down and decide to do this, but some other guy did. So there is still a human hand in bringing AI music to life, and I suspect there will be for a while because AI is not yet at the place where it does much “original” processing. In fact, AI regresses toward the mean, so a person still has to be the one that creates that “spark.” One day that will probably not be the case.


Regardless, I think the panic over AI music is legitimate, but I think the response might be fairly simple; the punks figured it out years ago. What is the panic? That humans will be irrelevant in art. That we’ll never be able to create something that AI can’t create faster (the infinite monkeys with typewriters dilemma). So let’s stop focusing so much on the product (a tall order, admittedly) and instead focus on the process. DIY. If you want art to be meaningful for humans, focus on the humans, and do the art. A drummer in Thailand is not creating anything that a bot couldn’t, but he is a human doing a thing, and maybe that’s what we’ll sell and buy, whether with money or cultural currency. We’ll probably still buy the AI art too, just like sometimes I want to listen to a moving piece of traditional Chinese music, and sometimes I want to blast Easy Lover.


And what better way to end a pointless treatise than on a Phil Collins reference?

well said!

[YoungRemy]

i can't help but to be terrified of what someone might do with yauch.

and i don't want to hear it .

It’s already out there, it’s being shared and it’s god awful. I won’t even share the link or tell you how to search for it. But it’s coming from the same YouTube page.

[dust monkey]

It’s already out there, it’s being shared and it’s god awful. I won’t even share the link or tell you how to search for it. But it’s coming from the same YouTube page.

hmmm. well i won't bother to look, not even out of curiosity. i am surprised though, i thought the beasties might slide under the AI radar TBH. i get it with big and 2pac and james brown and the beatles or MJ, prince, tom petty, etc.. i just figured who would waste their time. that said, i'll take your awful comment as confirmation of my fears.

good commentary too TUC. i haven't put that much thought into it but you speak pretty well on it. i do remember calling total bullshit on the hologram thing when it happened and that's just kinda how i feel about all this. hot97 did play a part of a weekend/drake AI song though, and even though i'm not a fan of either of those artists, maybe the weekend a little cause he sounds 80's, but again if you had not told me it was AI i would have never known it was not real, that's how legit good it sounded technically...and that just doesn't sit well with my brain, regardless if i know a real human is behind it or not.

[bigfatlove06]

It’s already out there, it’s being shared and it’s god awful. I won’t even share the link or tell you how to search for it. But it’s coming from the same YouTube page.

I also heard the MCA AI stuff that was done on that channel and it wasn't for me either. Some attempts at using the technology are going to fail miserably, and others may succeed spectacularly. Beastiemixes was the same way for me. Some DJ's were great, others were horrible, and there was everything in between. That's kind of where we were with channels that put out remixes in the past, and where we are with AI stuff in the future.