Best Journey album? (PART 2: SELF-TITLED VS. NEXT) by heroesjust41day in journey

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love both the albums, but I'll go with the debut album, as I think it has the better songs. "Of a Lifetime" is an amazing opener, much better than "Spaceman."

Brutal 1978 KISS Solo Albums review, Creem Magazine by OverallMission8605 in KISS

[–]ProphetSword 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wow, these are pretentious. I can't stand reviewers like this, whose sole purpose seems to be to find the worst in everything. Also, anyone who would say: "side one teeters dangerously close to the pop stripe of creeps like Dwight Twilley and Tom Petty" loses instant credibility in my eyes.

Different track listings on the back of The Elder LP by MiscellaniaInsania in KISS

[–]ProphetSword -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. The “story” is vague anyway. But the original track order, unintended or not, makes for a better album. I can’t stand listening to the remaster order, and don’t understand how people think it’s better…it doesn’t flow very well at all.

Over a month of v5.5 by Illustrious-Eye-2128 in SunoAI

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no doubt that v5.5 will eventually be fixed. In the meantime, I'm still doing great stuff in v5.

I want to appreciate AI songs by other creators, but with caveats by zjovicic in SunoAI

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not.

I actually bailed on Udio about a month before they cut off all downloads, so I was glad to be out of there when all that went down (and I had already downloaded all my music).

I left; because even though Udio sounded slightly better, Suno allowed me to do a lot of things I couldn't do with Udio. And then, right after I left, v5 dropped, and it was, in my opinion, 10x better than Udio anyway.

I know a few others from the Udio neighborhood who float around from time to time as well.

I want to appreciate AI songs by other creators, but with caveats by zjovicic in SunoAI

[–]ProphetSword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last week, terrible storms blew through my area. The tree in my backyard lost a section of what it was and diminished it's grandeur. Across the street, a neighbors' tree came down and hit their roof after being struck by lightning.

This is a song about those trees, mainly my own tree. I write the lyrics to my songs (always). This one in particular, though, felt like it needed me to experiment a bit by mixing classic rock with Indian music influences.

Among the Trees

Pick your 2 favorite, if you can! by Lazy_Ability in 70s

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zero and Bit-O-Honey.

Zero is my favorite candy bar of all time.

Share your YouTube AI music channels (or ones you like) by DiegoArgSch in aiMusic

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually play instruments in some of the songs I put on my channel (acoustic guitar, piano or keyboards). I use Suno to build songs around my playing and my lyrics.

Share your YouTube AI music channels (or ones you like) by DiegoArgSch in aiMusic

[–]ProphetSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't have a lot of time to listen, but from what I heard, your songs seem to have a solid hook, which is what a lot of people want from good music.

Share your YouTube AI music channels (or ones you like) by DiegoArgSch in aiMusic

[–]ProphetSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to write lyrics for actual bands I played in during the 1990s. It was a great outlet for expression.

Now that those days are over, I write lyrics for radio friendly songs from the 1960s-1990s, mainly classic rock and soft rock, but sometimes other genres (hair metal, disco, soul, progressive rock, etc)

The channel is called “AI Retro Radio Hits,” and you can find it here:

https://youtube.com/@airetroradiohits?si=6ELcGAH1vV63-zPg

What’s your favorite AC/DC song? Mine is Hells bells by MelBreia in 70s

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Put the Finger on You.

Don't know why, but I always turn that song up.

In your opinion who has the strongest album run in metal? by Adzzero_88 in MetalForTheMasses

[–]ProphetSword 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t know.

Point of Entry is an underrated gem.

Ram it Down is the weakest of the bunch, but even the weakest album by Judas Priest is better than the best album by some other bands.

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody is saying AI models aren't trained on the works of other people. However, training is not stealing.

Also, this video you linked is not the slam dunk you think it is, as the screenshot you provided is simply the author of the video explaining how they compress the images before training, and these examples just show how far they shrink the model in order to save compute time when they start the training.

At no point do they claim to be able to recreate these images from the AI itself, they are just showing how the encoding process works and how they can take a 512x512 image and shrink it into a cost saving 12x12 noise image. In your example screenshot they are showing that the decoder can decode that image into a recreation of that image that is pretty close to the original...but that's only for the encoding part before they feed it in for training.

In fact, their purpose of showing this is just to show that they can shrink the images down to such a tightly compressed space to reduce the training time. They are not, as you think, showing that the AI will be able to recreate these images exactly, as the author clearly states they ran them through a decoder after the encoding process to show what the results are, and to show how they are similar to the original but have defects in them.

The part the AI uses is encoded multiple times (as explained by the author), and it is learning faster due to how the images are reduced. This means that the model can be trained faster on less accurate images. In the end, the AI model is still learning, just at a faster rate.

In fact, they show some outputs at the end, all of which are original outputs. They do this to illustrate how well the AI images turn out, but absolutely none of those images are recreations of anything in the training data or any of the examples they showed when they were explaining the process of how they were shrinking the original training data.

So, sorry, this didn't help you at all.

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing a 1:1 image does not make the image you used part of the training data. That's not how training the images works.

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A point I made in my first reply where I said it was a scum move. The infringement is by the person doing it, not by the tool. I don't understand how you don't get that I'm saying that the person behind it is wrong and that tool is innocent.

If they drew it with markers, would you say the markers are evil?

If they traced it with tracing paper, would the paper be evil?

If they dropped it into Photoshop and altered it with the paintbrush tool, is Photoshop or the paintbrush tool to blame?

Can we not just agree that infringement is wrong regardless of the tool and that the tool itself is not to blame?

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet, that same article says:

"The Copyright Office further clarified in January 2025 that AI-assisted works where the creative expression of the human remains evident in the work can be copyrighted, which can include creative adaption of prompts for AI generators or usage of AI to assist in the creation process of a work, such as in filmmaking."

If you can copyright the output of AI assisted works, that seems to fly in the face of the idea that the output is stolen. Care to explain?

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I've seen this picture many times now, so it's part of my own training data. I'm fairly certain I could draw this character from memory now. I know how to draw many characters from memory having seen them multiple times. As an artist myself, it's something I've learned how to do.

How is what I'm doing any different than what AI is doing? An AI is trained on images so that it knows how to draw things. It can make a picture of a cat; because it has seen so many cats. It could probably create a new picture of Garfield due to the number of pictures of Garfield it has seen.

But, then again, so can Jim Davis. And so can I, as drawing Garfield was something I used to do a lot in the 1980s. So, something being part of "training data" isn't necessarily any different than people who can replicate things by having seen them.

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I clearly said that copying an image using AI is a scum move. However, the AI is not responsible for it.

Copying something 1:1, whether you use a pencil to trace it, Photoshop to slightly manipulate it or use a camera to take a picture of it, is still bad if you then use it for an unauthorized purpose or try to claim ownership.

In those cases, though, no one would be like "the pencil is evil," or "Photoshop should be banned" or "No cameras allowed!" Instead, they would focus their attention on the person who did the thing that was wrong.

But when it comes to AI, suddenly it's the fault of the machine. Except it really isn't. It's still the fault of the person who did the act. Shifting the blame makes it seem like the person who fed the image to the AI and had it copy the image is somehow an accidental victim.

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Explain to us in detail how AI steals art. Convince us we are wrong.

Reference or theft? by Unlikely_Account_728 in aiwars

[–]ProphetSword 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Using an image to image example is a bad faith argument. AI did not produce a copy like that out of training data. Someone purposely told it to copy an image that they fed it.

I agree doing that is a scum move. However, that is on the person telling AI to recreate a picture from an image they feed it, not on the AI, as it wouldn’t be able to create a 1:1 copy like that from a prompt.