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by torben-friis 438 days ago
I agree for fully generated work, but I think we’ll eventually reach a sweet spot for assisting tools that retain creativity while removing technical blockers. Things like beat quantization for producers but exponentially better.

The trick is going to be surfacing content in the sea of bullshit, though.

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Generative API won't ever be able to do this because generative AI (by its very design) can only do averaged, common-denominator stuff.

You need a whole new paradigm of AI/ML stuff to do what you want.

I’m not sure I get your point. Is it that you can’t make art with tools that produce average results?

If so I really disagree, achieving great results with average building blocks is both feasible and I’d say usual - you can perfectly imagine a greatly useful and successful app where any given individual block of code is nothing to write home about.

You can get a great solo of jazz piano over a generated battery filler, you can stitch two recordings by having AI generate the microseconds in the gap, you can produce a melody where AI adds human-like timing micro errors in the synth so doesn’t sound like a robotic rendition, you can rap and generate adlibs as a second voice…