“So I don't want to play this game where it's like, 'Oh, listen to 'Find Your Rest' by Solomon Ray.” Can you believe this is AI? ”Yes, I believe this is an AI. “Lord, I am tired from all this stress.” “How do you know Solomon Ray is AI? When you listen to a song like this, what you're actually listening to is the interruptions. You're listening for the burrs in the voice. You're listening for the syllables where the singer pulls back a little bit or doubles down and hits the gas pedal. But what you get from this song is something incredibly smooth, incredibly flat, with no emotional microfluctuations.” “I can still hear you.” “It's no surprise that this first-generation AI hit focuses on emotional manipulation. When you listen to this Solomon Ray song, you're listening to Zania Monet's 'How Was I Supposed to Know.' Listen to “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust. These are all songs that appeal to downtrodden people, and to people looking for songs to justify their feelings, it may not matter all that much whether the performers of those songs are real or fake. ” “Leave your worries to me and I will put you to rest.” “If I knew what inspired this song, I would imagine there was something like Southern, Church, gospel, soul, black music. When I hear this music, I think of singers like Anthony Hamilton.” “I said I would be here.” “Gary Clark Jr.” “Do all this to the hilt. No.” “Who is AI?” “I don't know if they're training you, and I don't know what materials they're training you with. I don't know if black people are involved in the creation of this ostensibly black music.” “You turned an idea into a ministry, and you turned a ministry into a movement.” “AI these days. What I think about when I listen to a lot of generative music is how far we've fallen in terms of the type of music that we tend to think of as original. Over the years, vocals have been compressed and put through various technological filters and programs and plug-ins to remove the ostensible texture of humanity and make it a little more accessible.” That AI ends up essentially replicating these already filtered vocals says more about the vocals we have accepted as humans than it does about the technology we fear will destroy humanity. “I'm tired, but I believe.” “So far, most of the uses of AI in music have been kind of creatively boring. I'm optimistic that as technology advances and ethics improves and payments improve, I think that in the hands of people with real talent, real curiosity, real creativity, they'll find poetry in the machines.”
