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In other words, Holly+, and the techniques behind it, raise new questions-about ownership, copyright, ethics, even basic media literacy. Our infrastructure isn’t set up for this.” With that comes the realization that, oh shit, the music community isn’t ready for this. “Now everything’s becoming much more realistic and high-fidelity, so the thing I was dreaming about during PROTO-a world where you could just sing through someone else’s voice-is becoming a reality. “I was working with lo-fi audio in this super hi-fi digital world,” Herndon says. The imperfections of Spawn’s voice-glitchy, pixel-pocked, riddled with digital artifacts-lent themselves to Herndon’s signature style of experimental electronic music, which revels in fractured rhythms and twisted timbres.īut the technology has evolved rapidly, meaning that whatever comes next for Herndon and Holly+, it is likely to be vastly different in form and scope. Elsewhere, she flickers, holographic, the star vocalist in a transhuman ensemble. The album tracks Spawn’s progress as she learns and improves: On “ Birth,” you can hear her stuttering attempts at speech against a backdrop of jittering choral harmonies. On her 2019 album PROTO, with the assistance of AI researcher Jules LaPlace, Herndon trained a neural net-which she called Spawn, and gave she/her pronouns-on human voices she then invited her to sing, along with an ensemble of human vocalists. Herndon has been working with AI for a number of years now. Music and art offer a chance to shine a spotlight on the ghost in the machine. And as much machine learning is already purring away under the hood of so many of our digital tools-photo apps, voice assistants, late-night Shazams-it tends to go unnoticed and unremarked upon. But just as the internet irreversibly changed the way people engage with music, AI is likely to change the way we both make and consume it. A neural net capable of mimicking Elvis Presley or Katy Perry, as OpenAI Jukebox can, is somewhere between a proof of concept and a nifty parlor trick. In music, the stakes are not nearly as high as they are in the realm of international relations, where deepfakes of political leaders can spread dangerous disinformation. The prospect of artificial intelligence has been with us for decades, but the speed with which it is advancing is enough to give anyone pause. The API accepts HTTP basic authentication for some endpoints and OAuth authentication for all endpoints.This observation may not inspire much confidence in the technology human intelligence, and human righteousness, are notoriously fallible.

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