At some point, the rabid anti-generative AI crowd becomes tiring. This is extremely masturbatory and very intellectually lazy piece of writing whose only purpose is to raise cheers from the same echo chamber an author is in.
These two articles remind me of the old Point/Counterpoint from the Onion[0]. I feel like someone wrote the first article so they could write the second as a bit of absurdity.
Even better: pick up Rocksmith, or one of the many clones being built by people using <ghasp> LLMs, and learn to play a real guitar.
I did, and I now play bass in a hardrock/metall band. One of my guitarist started with guitar hero, moved on to Rocksmith, and here we are. Band practice tonight for a gig at one of the best little music venues in Stockholm, Sweden next month. (Which I am arranging.) Good things come from doing fun things.
Back before my interview with Google, I was super nervous, so I played guitar hero for a few hours in the morning before going down to Mountain View for the interview.
It worked, I needed something to take my mind off of the CLR algo book I had been cramming to re-remember things forgotten. Fun times!
A lot of the tension around generative AI comes from the fact that the abstraction layer is often presented as interchangeable with the underlying craft
I've now seen some actual high-effort high-skill applications of AI tools starting to emerge. So, it's not ALL low skill. But the bottom rung of the ladder is very easy to reach, and it seems pretty much everyone has a "slop generation phase" besides.
I surmise that most people don't show you their slop/practice work, else the world would already be drowning as is. The few that actually do put their bad early work out there dominate the landscape though.
It turns out that some people get past the practice stage. Maybe most, eventually, hopefully?
Playing games have always been stelling stones into real life. For all animals. Including humans. So I don't really get this discussion. And also, similar game Rock Band triggered three Mexican kids to become an actual (rather succesful) rockband. Which triggered the makers Harmonic to include their song in the next version of Rock Band. Check out The Warning!
I remember that thread and I also thought it was way off base.
Guitar Hero/Rock Band were gateways to getting into a huge and deep music library, as well getting me interested in real guitar and learning how to play real drums. The criticism in that previous article was incredibly wrong.
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I did, and I now play bass in a hardrock/metall band. One of my guitarist started with guitar hero, moved on to Rocksmith, and here we are. Band practice tonight for a gig at one of the best little music venues in Stockholm, Sweden next month. (Which I am arranging.) Good things come from doing fun things.
Back before my interview with Google, I was super nervous, so I played guitar hero for a few hours in the morning before going down to Mountain View for the interview.
It worked, I needed something to take my mind off of the CLR algo book I had been cramming to re-remember things forgotten. Fun times!
I surmise that most people don't show you their slop/practice work, else the world would already be drowning as is. The few that actually do put their bad early work out there dominate the landscape though.
It turns out that some people get past the practice stage. Maybe most, eventually, hopefully?
Guitar Hero/Rock Band were gateways to getting into a huge and deep music library, as well getting me interested in real guitar and learning how to play real drums. The criticism in that previous article was incredibly wrong.