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[Aristus]

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[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

I know by communicating with cousins there that like all of Europe, they want the good people to rise up against this creep. And there are lots of good songs making the rounds.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I suspect it is AI - the channel looks like it specializes in AI "covers"

It has a long list of "cinematic covers", all with similar-looking visual concepts (artist in front of a big orchestra), "jazz covers" (all in front of a small audience at round tables), "rock covers" (rock band in a slightly unsual setting - a street, a driveway, a wooden platform in a field). At least this is the first "Irish folk" cover they've attempted. The owner of the channel, Ethan Gontar, says they're Israeli, by the way.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Fuck this AI slop. There are no Irish in this video, and no one who knows anything about autocratic oppression in it.

Why celebrate slop when real people are making real music?

[demmiblue]

4. Unrec... AI

[highplainsdem]

5. That's AI slop, Aristus, and it's a ripoff of, and an insult to, Springsteen and every real artist. See my reply 12

here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221003406#post12

[highplainsdem]

6. Aristus, I remember that you admire SF writer Harlan Ellison, and you met him and had dinner with him

once. That must've been a very entertaining evening.

I'm very familiar with his work, both the fiction and the nonfiction rants, which made for great reading as well as effectively attacking whatever he thought.should be targeted.

Harlan always stood up for artists' rights. He would have despised that AI slop video.

I don't for one second think he'd have felt anything but hatred of the AI bros and AI companies and their grotesque theft of the world's intellectual property to train their AI.

I would have loved to hear or read what Harlan thought of them, if he were still around.

AI critic Ed Zitron is one of the best people to read on the subject of AI. He writes brilliantly, and his writing sometimes reminds me of Harlan's.

[msongs]

7. amazing how they sing without moving their lips...or moving at all nt