friend of mine @Mysterium238 found an odd channel on YouTube the other day.
listen to this for a bit. bizarre stuff. it's cutting in and out between two different kinds of song. on their own, these songs would be sludge. but the interleaving between the two is actually kinda interesting. sadly it stops doing that about 2/3 of the way through and it gets boring again. coupled with the nonsensical track names, it almost feels like... mass-produced aphex twin?
a lot of tracks are like this. it's very weird, but kind of interesting while it lasts.
those of you in the audience with eyes and ears have no doubt already figured out that this is entirely neural-network generated. the album "art," the track names, the tracks themselves, all shat out by a neural network. what I'm most curious about is how much of this process is automated - has "Simon Meyer M" used a python script or something to hit up a music generator for tracks, an image generator for album art, generate random names, and push them straight to youtube? is there any kind of human influence or quality control here? has "Simon" heard any of their work?
obviously, this is terrible for the internet - gigabytes of garbage data shoveled into indexed databased crowding out real shit that someone on earth might be actually interested in. but it's at least morbidly fascinating. I doubt it's even worth the trouble for "Simon" - the costs of generating all this stuff versus the ad revenue he's getting for, what 80 views per track? is probably a huge loss for them.