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Image: musk in trench coat

Image: musk in trench coat

Bad feelings today. Google announced that an artist I like, Jacob Collier, has been working with them to develop an LLM based tool for music autoplag.

A little context: Collier has like 5 grammies, and is an incredibly creative artist that is able to take ideas and influence from disparate sources and synthesise something interesting (it’s not always good though…). Likely the greatest musician of his generation!

I don’t want to catastrophise too much here but I’m not looking forward to this being used as a cudgel from the promptfondlers.

The only open question I think is: to what extent is the music generation autoplag? (My guess, 100%)

9/10, needs typos for authenticity

This wasn’t from a place of knowledge. I made a social read. Musk is absolutely the type to call a trilby a fedora and feel smug about it; I extrapolated from that.

Honestly, knowing Musk’s MO of huffing his own farts, I’d have thought he’d be into the stillsuits of it all

My read: sounds like a teenager that knows the touted functionality of the scam tech they are referencing, but is not wise enough to the ways of the world to know they are scams.

Cyberpunk is when cool coat*

*said coat is a trench coat, not a duster

Man, any good media manipulator knows you don’t go for the newsrooms first. You start with the shitty ad-infested pages that just post procedurally generated slop anyway, then you let that shit fester up the chain until it hits the front page of the NYT.

poor Musky lost custody. Couldn’t handle Grimes, now he mangles rhymes.

Well my name is Jordan and I’m here to say/ we’re just like lobsters in a major way

This is both old news and kinda… not that surprising when you think about it, but I searched and didn’t see any commentary on this here.

“Meta has hired a former Project 2025 staffer and Ron DeSantis chief of staff as its director of public policy in the South.”