Since I have been using AI for my business I have been diving in and learning more about the technology. What we’ve done for the business has been amazing and a little scary. AI is a bit like alcohol. Not only in its intoxicating nature but also it accelerates the qualities that already exist. In vino veritas and all that. AI is much the same way. It brings out what it already there.
Last night I had and interesting conversation. I brought up the use of Suno to the person that inspired me to use it and then the conversation turned to what this means for the world and it is an interesting and scary thought. I have mentioned before the move from stage to screen to stream and the next layer there is even more individuality, because last night I drove to Improv listening to a song no one else in the world could be listening to. It is the same movement. From live performance to FM radio to streaming.
It is the degrading of intimacy. That is going to be our struggle in the coming years. How to we stay connected in a world becoming more and more isolated? We move from curated streaming platforms to self curating of taste. In roughly 15 seconds I made a prog metal polka about eating a hot dog. I didn’t generate it or listen to it, but I created it.
That is how fast the technology is. One day soon we will be able to whisper show ideas to our remotes and they will happen. We will be having a one of one experience. That is going to be exciting to some and frightening to others. We went from the final episode of M*A*S*H being a massive cultural event to everyone watching what they want when they want and soon that will funnel down further and people will be watching what they create.
One of one experiences aren’t bad. I am currently working on a prog metal album about haunted places in America and each song is a prog metal spine hybridized with a local music tradition. Last night I generated a song about The Bunny Man Bridge that mixed prog metal and straight edge punk and then ran it through the filter of the house band I created. We will see what happens when I run it for other locals. It is insane what we can do, but also insane what we can do.
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