The last time I did an AI music article it was my own lyrics that I used. This time I thought I’d see what the AI would come up with from just a prompt. There are two variations with where the AI used the same refrain for the chorus, but that was a phrase provided by me in the prompt.
Prompt 1: A punk song about Glibertarians.com news links twice a day, stories about The Hat and The Hair, Trumps hat and hair as his advisors. Articles by contributors on liberty and daily life. STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX.
Prompt 2: A punk song about STEVE SMITH, a bigfoot who is a prominent forest lawyer and rapes hikers. STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX.
The 3rd prompt was the first of these I generated. I was showing the AI to my 13 year old nephew and wanted to make him laugh.
Prompt 3: A country song about butts.
Didn’t care for the screamers, but I did enjoy the tailgate trouble song. And the image is spectacular.
That one wasn’t bad.
Tom Cruise is the last movie star.
https://x.com/i/status/2069450422532895164
Dude promotes his nee movie by just saying “I’m Tom Cruise, and I am in this movie”
Like John Wayne or Humphry Bogart.
Are there any other real movie stars? Anyone else who sells tickets by their mere presence on the poster?
He even thanks the fans instead of lecturing them on intersectionality and their own prejudice.
There was a dark period in our nation’s history when Tom Cruise was deeply hated. Jumped on a couch and mouthbreathers out there couldn’t appreciate his greatness. I’m glad those days are over.
I’ve never hated him. I have always thought he was a weirdo, though.
To be fair, he’s a Scientologist. It’s normal to hate Scientology.
I was thinking this. No one mentions the Scientology any more, do they? And his “ethics” talk was around this time.
He is *the* movie star. I also don’t think he’s a ‘real’ person underneath it all. I’m sure the money and constant business soothes the turmoil, but he’s a fairly supreme example: it’s impossible to have a normal life. I’d have my own gated island, too.
He’s always been a competent actor, and I will give him this much: he’s a hard working motherfucker. From what I’ve been forced to learn of him personally through media saturation he seems like a twat, but I can’t really think of a single celebrity that isn’t. In an era where the entertainment industry has gone full USSR socialist realism, his willingness to churn out popular shlock that people actually want to buy is admirably subversive.
He has actually forced me to acknowledge he’s talented. I have to give him props for doing most of his own stunts. The one where’s he’s outside of the jet as it takes off in one of the Mission Impossible movies is incredible, mostly because it’s not bad CGI and this is evident when you watch the scene.
I’m fairly convinced that he made that shitty “Mummy” remake solely to do a single stunt in the air. Dude is fucking nuts.
I love it. Can you do a Steve Smith song in the style of a 1970s Toho Godzilla movie theme song?
-1 Blue Oyster Cult
Dude.
Really? Not a Steve Smith, The Round Mound of Hairy Sound type song?
You know that is what is needed in these troubling times!
I’m sensing why the “creative class” hates AI so much.
Our creative class has been using AI as soon as it became available because they are mostly lazy frauds and nepo babies with nothing interesting of their own to say in the first place. They have no life experiences. Many were casted for immutable characteristics they were born with rather than talent.
People talk about movie stars, but how many actors can actually act? And then how many actually have any real charisma? Guys like Arnold had presence that no one in modern Hollywood has. Stallone could do certain kind of performances well, but got by on the same. There’s B-movie guys like Bruce Campbell that just don’t exist anymore. When they remade Evil Dead into a “serious” horror movie I cringed. It’s like they didn’t even get the point of the series and doing it without Campbell is nearly impossible because he defines those fucking movies on screen.
The modern male actor is like a cookie cutter little twink that some gay casting director got the best blowjob from who attended school to learn how to act.
I recently watched “Send Help” and there is a picture of Bruce Campbell in the boss’s office during a small scene. I actually had to look up that it really was him.
Isn’t that how all the Hemsworth’s got jobs?
Hemsworths are “power bottoms” I believe.
It pays well in Hollywood.
Agreed. It’s creepy how good it is, especially with ‘catchy,’ ‘poppy’ stuff. For personal and professional reasons, I’d be really fucking upset were I a pretty actress, celeb or just an attractive passerby. I’m sure many test cases are being prepared to suss out the details, cuz I really think something should be done.
Or a politician. Someone doesn’t like you, well, now you’re on video fucking an infant donkey at a flaming cross ritual, so there.
The post-Max Martin era of pop music is so rigidly, scientifically fucking formulaic that it’s hardly surprising. But even outside of that, it’s basically just doing pastiches of every song ever recorded for a particular genre/niche. Pastiche isn’t all that difficult even for a human musician of unexceptional talent. We’re still a long way off from AI doing anything truly inventive though. It will probably obviate the need for new pretty faces to sing the same formulaic slop churned out by the same 5 producers every new decade – and good riddance. With any luck, that’ll free up some space for the kind of musicians, producers, and engineers who end up creating new production techniques, defining new sub-genres, and discovering things that our ear holes don’t even know they like yet.
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords. Prompt 2 is a goddamn banger.
I’ve seen this dog eat things that’d kill a grown man.
He is currently trying to fit my whole shoulder in his mouth.
Both punk songs are at least 1 minute too long*, and the “country” song is a pop song with twang.
*good punks song last 90 second 2minutes tops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFd0Lcol5U
I like to see the lyrics to help me better understand the song but to no avail.
Hearing/deciphering is a problem with ears that are too experienced.
That’s been literally every country song since about 1996, to be fair.
Ok, so it’s “New Country”.
To go with the site, the last song should have been about cat butts.
Big day: FedEx confirmed with me and I’ve got an in-person interview this Friday. System Admin-1, kinda bay Secretary, methinks? Mon-Fri 3-9pm, so part time. Haven’t heard official pay, yet, “$17-$23, so I assume on the low end. But, big company. Hrm.
MOST shockingly, the local title service company called me today and I’ll have an in-person with them, as well. I called in to get someone I could send my shit to, and I was able to give it directly to the VP /attorney /part-owner. “Escrow processor, $20-$22.” I think that one looks kinda glorious. And damn, they got back to me within 12-hours. I was at work and didn’t know, but the dude left a message for me to hit him up tomorrow morning for an appt. I’ll also have some face-to-customer interactions during closings, apparently.
FedEx, after I asked if I should bring or prepare anything, suggested I read up about them and the job. I’ve got learndin’ to do!
I haven’t had one of these in a long while. I would greatly appreciate any one’s info or knowledge of either job. Things or places where I can read and learn up, or just general things I should be aware of.
As much as I loathe reddit, if you google/startpage “site:reddit.com *job description*” you’ll usually get some great results, particularly if you want to learn what the whiniest whiners think of a particular job, and why it sucks. A lot depends on your individual disposition and preferences. Sysadmin for FedEx may have more advancement opportunities, but you’ll have to fit into their corporate culture if you want to move up. I’m playing that game currently with the company I work for, and frankly I hate it. Escrow processing at a smaller company would be way more my speed, but YMMV.
Oooh, I always need reminding of reddit. I never use it of my own accord. *thumbs up*
The escrow gig seems much more up my alley. Much more. Being smaller and local helps me a lot, in my thinking. It’s also several new things I’m gonna have to learn and adapt to, but I also have to remind myself, uh. Ev? That’s kinda sorta what you’re best at, oddly. I’ve never worked in a real office, that’s one funny bit.
The toe into Big Corporate is interesting for its own reasons, yes. After years of meaningful search, with only one real interview, suddenly I get two in two days? Note: Getting help with Gemini. Just makes resumes and cover letters easier, and (sadly?) better. AI is going through ’em anyway and it catches certain phrases. Luck and timing, for sure, but I’d be foolish to ignore AI’s help.
So, duh, use AI with/ against itself. I’m onto you, Modern World. But sometimes you’re a mister poopy poop face. I like much of what you do, McPooperson, but you’re so damn convenient.
Heh, I just updated my resume about 2 weeks ago to make it more ATS-friendly. Being a privacy schizo, I don’t have a personal Google account (and my work account will be going away shortly when we fully transition to MS/Outlook/Sharepoint), but I did use a free ATS validation checker to make sure it parses OK at least. I’m not in love with the modern world…
Good luck, Evan, a change of pace and easy on the physical aspects.
There are times I miss work but not many. Then I do a review of retirement and enjoy that a whole lot more.
Of all the fast food joints, Taco Bell is probably now the worst. Their new “special” is a cheap knock-off birria style taco that you dip in their shitty red sauce. It’s $5-6.
They use to just throw food at you for like a dollar.
Quality of all these places which was never incredibly high in my lifetime to begin with keeps going down with prices going up.
Now I want a crunchy taco. Next time I go to the city I’ll try to remember to hit Taco Bell and make my own evaluation.
Thanks for the reminder
Their shitty tiny little taco is like $4 now.
Double decker. Don’t know why they don’t have those anymore. Or didn’t. Whatever. Their chicken quesadilla was revolutionary, way back. I should scope them out. Fast food in Carmel is well done. Except the KFC. DAMN. Mom won’t go there. It’s seemingly run by DEI hires from Indy’s southside. A completely different vibe than everything else nearby. Much more like the neighborhood my plasma centers were in, the one with the fatal shooting two days before I started there.
One of the things that makes me realize how completely out of touch I am is when people discuss their fast food gripes, and I realize the only fast food restaurant I’ve visited in the last 15+ years is In-N-Out Burger when I lived in Nevada 3 years ago.
When I was in high school, 3 crunchy tacos from Taco Bell for 3 bucks was my weekly dinner on Wednesdays after church worship rehearsals. CPI calculator says that’s the equivalent of $5.27 in today’s money.
I like cooking and I have gotten pretty good at the stuff I make. I’d do it far more often if it wasn’t for the current living arrangement I’m stuck with through September.
Frozen meals only get me so far.
I’m not entirely sure whether they (i.e. every fast food outlet) are trying to undercut inflation and that’s why quality is in the toilet or are other factors (taxes, regs, union agitation) are involved.
Yes.
At the risk of sounding a bit like a Bernie bro here, it’s kind of hard not to point to corporate greed at times. When prices rise, they don’t come back down. When they see that people will pay more, why the hell wouldn’t they keep pushing the envelope? Fear of raising prices in the past has seriously diminished for most of these corps and it’ll stay that way until they take a massive hit.
It’s funny to hear the media spin the McDonalds and Taco Bell “strategies.” They’re trying to make their brands seem less cheap. Yet the quality of the food stays the same or gets worse. Outside the fries which actually are pretty decent for fast food fries, everything else they make is the same shit they’ve always had. Their other recent gimmick are these tiny little “street” tacos where they just use the chalupa shell they already had before. It really is the same 5 shitty ingredients mixed up a bit.
I did find the recent ad campaign from (I think?) Burger King interesting, where they admitted the food sucks (they’re right) and claimed it was going to get better.
Claim: Anthropic was put on cooldown because it was able to breach the NSA’s system in a few hours.
This is one of the many other reasons I find the security theater so many engage in pointless. AI is going to destroy encryption at some point if it hasn’t already.
Sidenote – how does crypto survive when any and all systems can be hacked by advanced AI? I mean, if the AI hacking Armageddon comes about we’re all kind of fucked anyway. Paper money won’t be worth shit either. Bullets will be the currency of my choosing.
AI is a bubble at the moment, but it’s going to revolutionize the world. And I’ll repeat the thing that no one is talking about enough – we have the dumbest fucking ruling class in world history right at the moment when humanity is creating the tools that could make itself obsolete.
People think government regulators are going to keep this genie in the bottle? Get the fuck out of here. It’s a race at this point to develop it and for good reason.
This shit will get way scarier than the nukes ever were because how do you control access to shit?
Possibly, but probably not in the way most people think. The company I work for handles online chat-based communication for auto dealers. We’re literally the primary use case for generative LLMs. As it stands, we have humans running through heavily-scripted lines to generate leads, which is the job I started in. During the last quarter our AI chat bot handled 49% of our total chat volume. We’re not presently hiring any new humans, and probably never will again. But our chat bot sucks unimaginable amounts of monkey ass. If it were a human chat agent we would unceremoniously fire it tomorrow for failing to meet even a single one of our KPI metrics. It has no comprehension of context and bungles even the simplest lead routing better than 70% of the time. This is a technology our corporate overlord has spent tens of millions of dollars on so far, training it on well over a decade’s worth of human chat logs. Until we can get our LLM to determine that “I need an oil change for my 2015 Pathfinder” means “send a lead to the service department department for an oil change on a 2015 Nissan Pathfinder,” and not “send a lead to the sales department about purchasing a 2015 Nissan Pathfinder,” I’m not going to worry too much about Skynet putting engineers, attorneys, and air traffic controllers out of a job.
Jeebus.
Once again I am glad to be near retirement. The future for my line of work (corporate software development) is looking to suck ass. I’m playing along with the rah-rah AI love-fest only because I know I can tap out in a handful of years.
That or “quantum computing” assuming the promises are real and not horseshit.
I feel like this story I posted is hype more than anything. But yea this shit is coming at some point.
What better way to hype up the favored AI of the favorite cronies than to say they broke into the NSA?
AI is helpful only in the sense that it has a massive knowledge base and can code stuff up in seconds. It cuts out manual labor and makes it easy to find the exploit.
Brute force is just as hard with AI as it is by hand.
Quantum could be a game changer, but it’s still in its “research toy” phase. They need to figure out how to get it working at scale without needing a cryovat the size of Rhode Island. Also, it’s much more susceptible to flipped bits (or qubits) than traditional silicon, so the error correction has to be on point.
Once quantum becomes commercializable, all the crypto has to change.
“AI” in the context of cryptography doesn’t really change much of anything — you can already automate brute-force attack vectors. Encryption is a time-buying technique at the level of a state actor. AI might increase the efficiency of the process marginally, but it’s not going to magically break encryption at the computational level. Quantum computing, on the other hand, will utterly destroy current encryption techniques if it becomes scalable. And then we’ll all be doomed… until skilled programmers, leveraging “AI”, devise a quantum-resistant encryption algorithm.
^^ what he said.