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  • Guy was a pretty good artist in his own right. He stuck to a limited sound set, in my opinion, but there was a lot of good shit from his Strange Cargo series. And yeah, I recognize Adagio for Strings in his Pieces in a Modern Style album.

    I think I ended up knowing his Strange Cargo albums before Ray of Light. Frankly, he was the best part of that album. It could have been anybody singing on that one, because Madonna isn’t really a musician, just somebody with connections, with a trend-chasing mindset. Ray of Light happened for the same reason as Smashing Pumpkin’s Adore, Tori Amos’ From the Choirgirl Hotel, Garbage’s Version 2.0, David Bowie’s Earthling, U2’s Pop: all chasing that new-fangled electronica sound. At least William Orbit got good publicity from it.

    Hell, I hadn’t heard from him in 25 years. Looks like he made a Pieces in a Modern Style, Vol. 2 in 2010 and started his career back up, all the way up until he died.






  • I think a lot of it depends on the model and the amount of context it has. LLMs usually get worse with time because they are running out of context, or they don’t have a good summarization of the story at large. For story-writing, it’s best to have a full outline planned and set up as its own Markdown doc, along with critiques on things you think don’t make sense or just don’t like as a plot device. Then, start a new session with each section, keeping it in a Markdown doc as it goes. Some sort of character doc is probably a good idea, too. Give it as much reference material as possible.

    It’s just like planning features for code. You don’t just say “gimme a story like blah”. You have to set it up like writers write movies.


  • The fucked up thing about AI right now is that AI companies get to act like we’re in a post-copyright world, pirating from literally everyone, while the rest of us are still stuck in copyright hell.

    That’s the double-standard that they always upheld. Two large companies play by the rules. A small artist always plays by the rules when faced with a large company’s copyright. But, one large company stealing against a small artist? The company steals anything they want, as long as they can get away with it.

    Marathon vs. Antireal is a prime example. They steal her artwork and style, put it in the game, and get away with it. The only reason they settled and paid her was because:

    1. They got caught
    2. The evidence was obvious
    3. The bad PR was affecting their sales

    If any of those weren’t true, they would have gotten away with it, stolen it outright, and not paid her at all.

    No AI involved in any of that. No need when corporations already held the power for centuries.

    I don’t think it’s realistic that the rich will dismantle IP in the name of AI progress

    I think they’ll accidentally do so, by creating so much from AI and a judge declares that it can’t be copyrighted because X% is AI generated, and existing precedent already required human input for copyrighted material.