[dan_pixelflow]

A genuine confusion for me - as a visual artist - about how two things can be true: this can be a great love letter to such an iconic and brilliant song, and also why generative AI was used to create accompanying imagery in this article. I don't see how an piece about the 'joys of music production' - aka, creativity - should also actively be anti-creative. To me, those two thoughts seem completely opposing.

[input_sh]

Not to mention this being on Daft Punk's Wikipedia:

> In April 2023, [Thomas] Bangalter released a solo work, the orchestral ballet score Mythologies. He gave interviews about the project and allowed himself to be photographed without a mask. He cited concerns about the progress of artificial intelligence and other technology as to why Daft Punk split, saying: "As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot."

Then again, looking at the Ghibli trend, I'm not surprised.

[sentientslug]

Not just the imagery, very clearly the text as well. It really puts me off of reading an article when it's so obvious, I'm not sure why. It almost feels like the author is trying to pull something over on me.

[tweetle_beetle]

I agree, it feels like an advertorial trying to sell me products even when it isn't, which is a shame as the underlying content is detailed, original and long form.

> I tracked the vocals in my apartment in the Mission, San Francisco

This has no relevance at all to what is being said at that point in the article. But it feels very much like dropping in references to a specific guitar brand or plug-in before it's relevant elsewhere too. Like an LLM has based the style on SEO blogspam.

[redwall_hp]

It's disrespectful, that's why. If someone doesn't think it's worth the time and effort to write something, it's not worth my time to read it.

All writing, visual art and music is an act of expression and communication. If one delegates that human element to a machine, they're a poseur, and that's the end of it.

Thanks for calling that out and saving a click. There are lots of nice reconstructions of dance music on YouTube, which are fascinating to learn from as someone who likes to play with DAWs and synths, which are more worth the time.

[stickfigure]

We humans can't be great at everything.

[Arainach]

Which is why we can compensate other humans (or cooperate with them in some way) to achieve things.

[stickfigure]

It's unreasonable to expect someone who posts free blog entries about fun stuff in their specific area of expertise to either 1) hire an illustrator or 2) manage and motivate volunteers.

"As a visual artist, why don't you compose the music too?"

[Arainach]

Nothing in this blog post about songs required an illustration.

[stickfigure]

Nothing on this website (HN) requires anything other than unstyled html text. Yet it has a somewhat charming style, I think.

[CaptainFever]

Not everyone believes that generative AI is anti-creative. If that is understood, the confusion disappears.

It's also just one image, clearly just for aesthetic. It's not that big of a deal.