"An Ode To Greenland" from The Resistance

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FYI, I did a quick search here on DU for this song title in an effort to avoid duplications. Hope I didn't miss an earlier post offering up this musically bright and cleverly worded entry.

[highplainsdem]

1. That's AI slop, from a YouTube channel that's nothing but AI slop.

[AZJonnie]

2. I was just about to post "wait'll HPD sees this"

[highplainsdem]

3. I don't catch all of them. I didn't see the AI slop video from the same channel that was posted yesterday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220978532

but found it after doing a search tonight.

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4. Ok, you don't like AI.

I, too, have concerns about it. But every technology since the control of fire has the potential to offer both harm and benefits.

Would you like me to take it down? Is there any level of computer-assisted creative endeavor that meets with your approval?

[highplainsdem]

5. Generative AI, which was used for that video, is fundamentally unethical technology because of the

theft of intellectual property to train the AI models. It's exploitative technology that also dumbs users down, enables all kinds of fraud from student cheating to deepfakes, harms the natural environment and the internet, and worsens surveillance and inequality.

So no, I don't like it. I consider it the most harmful non-weapon tech ever developed, and it's increasingly used by the military. I've heard of very few positive uses that can begin to offset the harm it does.

It does not assist with creative endeavors. It offers a pretense of real creativity via a plagiarism machine.

A lot of these AI slop channels are from foreign content farms. Even if they're from individuals in the US, AI-generated protest songs simply can't show real intent, thought, emotion and talent. It's. just a simulation. Use of AI shows a lack of respect for real artists, who lose attention they deserve as AI slop flood platforms. Musk has been bragging thid week that people using his Grok AI generated 5.5 billion images in a single month. Music platforms are deluged with millions of AI tracks a month.

Humans deserve better.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220980469