{"id":453738,"date":"2025-12-17T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/453738\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:55:12","slug":"why-are-a-i-hits-so-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/453738\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are A.I. Hits So Sad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cSo I don\u2019t want to play any of these games of like, \u2018Oh, listen to Solomon Ray\u2019s \u201cFind Your Rest.\u201d Can you believe this is A.I?\u2019 Yeah, I can believe this is A.I. \u201cLord, I\u2019m tired from all this stressing.\u201d \u201cHow do you know that Solomon Ray is A.I.? When you listen to a song like this, what you\u2019re actually listening for are the disruptions. You\u2019re listening for the burr on the voice. You\u2019re listening for the syllables where the singer just kind of yanks back or doubles down and hits the accelerator. What you get in this song, though, is something that\u2019s incredibly smooth, incredibly flat, no emotional microvariations.\u201d \u201cI still hear your voice.\u201d \u201cIt doesn\u2019t surprise me that this first generation of A.I. hits is really focused on emotional manipulation. If you listen to this Solomon Ray song, you listen to Xania Monet\u2019s \u201cHow Was I Supposed to Know.\u201d If you listen to Breaking Rust\u2019s \u201cWalk My Walk.\u201d These are all songs that appeal to the downtrodden, and I think for people looking for songs to validate those feelings, it might matter less if the performers of those songs are real or fake.\u201d \u201cCast your cares on my shoulders, and I\u2019ll give you rest.\u201d \u201cI imagine if you knew the prompts that generated this song, there\u2019s something like Southern, churchy, gospel, soul \u2014 which is to say, Black music. When I hear this music, I think of a singer like Anthony Hamilton.\u201d \u201cSaid I\u2019ll promise I\u2019ll be here.\u201d \u201cGary Clark Jr.\u201d \u201cRun this whole thing down. No.\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t know who\u2019s training the A.I.s. You don\u2019t know what material it\u2019s being trained on. You don\u2019t know whether in the creation of this ostensibly Black music, if any Black people are involved.\u201d \u201cYou turned an idea into a ministry and a ministry into a movement.\u201d \u201cWhat hearing a lot of recent A.I.-generated music makes me think, is how far we\u2019ve fallen in terms of the types of things that we tend to think of as original For years, vocals have been compressed, run through various technological filters and programs and plug-ins to remove some tiny, tiny texture of humanity from them, ostensibly, to make them a little bit more broadly palatable. To end up with A.I. essentially replicating these already filtered vocals says more to me about the vocals that we\u2019ve been accepting as human than it does about the technology that we\u2019re worried about ending humanity. \u201cI\u2019m tired, but I\u2019m trusting.\u201d \u201cThus far, most of the uses of A.I. in music have been creatively a little bit meh. Moving forward, as the technology improves, as the ethics improve, as the payments improve, what I\u2019m optimistic about is in the hands of someone with real talent, real curiosity and real creativity, they\u2019re going to find the poetry in the machine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo I don\u2019t want to play any of these games of like, \u2018Oh, listen to Solomon Ray\u2019s \u201cFind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":453739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[208120,5229,975,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4368,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-453738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-a-i-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-podcast","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115736197524350572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}