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glimshe 2 hours ago [-]
Oh wow, some of these are better than my Spotify recommendations...
beardyw 7 hours ago [-]
AI has reached criticality. Hide under the bed.
dtagames 10 hours ago [-]
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dang 8 hours ago [-]
Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack. As the rest of the thread shows, there was a simple misunderstanding here. (Submitted title was "We generated ethnic music from every single country on earth".) Nothing here justified accusations of bigotry.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
ktoyame 10 hours ago [-]
Thank you!
I'm not a native english speaker and what i meant was iconic, not ethnic. Fixed the title - my bad.
This experiment is about helping people explore music of other cultures, in any language.
For example, there is likely no band performing Mongolian throat singing in Yoruba, and we explored how it might've sounded like.
dtagames 8 hours ago [-]
I still think apps like this undermine your goal, and I say that as both an AI booster and lover of multiculturalism.
If we're going to improve humanity by being pluralistic and open to understanding other cultures, that must come from examining the conditions and content of that culture itself, not any simulation of them. We can't get closer to people by avoiding talking to them, listening to them, reading their writing, eating their food, going to their temples, etc.
AI helps with none of that but it could fool people into thinking they had done those things.
If you re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, there's a guideline in there for just these situations:
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
I'm not a native english speaker and what i meant was iconic, not ethnic. Fixed the title - my bad.
This experiment is about helping people explore music of other cultures, in any language.
For example, there is likely no band performing Mongolian throat singing in Yoruba, and we explored how it might've sounded like.
If we're going to improve humanity by being pluralistic and open to understanding other cultures, that must come from examining the conditions and content of that culture itself, not any simulation of them. We can't get closer to people by avoiding talking to them, listening to them, reading their writing, eating their food, going to their temples, etc.
AI helps with none of that but it could fool people into thinking they had done those things.