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  • Thought experiment: What if it an extremely intelligent person memorised every Metallica song on a free Spotify account, down to every small detail. Later that person writes a new song, it’s heavily inspired by Metallica, it sounds like them, you might even mistake it for them except for the vocals, but the lyrics are new, the chords are new, etc. Did that person then violate copyright, even though it’s a completely new song?

    I know the AI techbros are just scraping every datapoint they can get their grubby little hands on, but it makes me think.

    Imagine for a sec that all that AI buzz and hype leads to something that is indistinguishable from that extremely intelligent person (however unlikely).

    We’re not anywhere close to a scenario like that, but at what point is a regular artist that spent their youth listening to Britney Spears violating copyright law, philosophically speaking, when they decide they want to make music like that?

    Penny for your thoughts.





  • Its a bunch of guys who are worldclass on their individual instruments. Tool says their songs mean whatever you think they mean. People seem to find them pretentious now but I think they maybe just lost some of their obscure coolness by being more widely known it seems.

    I can’t speak for the personality of Maynard cause i don’t know the guy but they are my n1 band in every spotify end of year list. The latest albums seems to be a hit or miss depending who you talk to but I freakin love Invincible, Descending, and Culling Voices.

    The music is complex and requires a bit of listening before your brain starts to predict thz patterns for that sweet dopamine hit but oh boy is it worth it. Popular music just sounds bland and repetitive in comparison.