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This article is a boring and long advertisement, and I don't want to give it a thread. I'll just quote the AI part:
Sheryl Crow: 'Resurrecting Tupac with AI is hateful'
Sheryl Crow has something to get off her chest.
Over the years, the nine-time Grammy winner has never been scared to voice her opinion.
Known for the classic roots rock of songs like My Favourite Mistake and All I Wanna Do, she has also used her voice to campaign on issues like gun control and climate change.
Now, she has her sights set on Artificial Intelligence.
The title track of her new album, Evolution, grapples with the impact of AI on people and the planet.
Speaking to the BBC, she characterises the technology as a “slippery slope” and “a betrayal” that “goes against everything humanity is based on”.
Her attention was focused on the software last year, after meeting a young songwriter who’d been employing it in her work.
Frustrated that male artists wouldn’t listen to her demos, Crow's acquaintance paid to have an AI clone of singer-songwriter John Mayer replace her vocals.
When Crow heard the song, she was so “terrified” that she was “literally hyperventilating”.
“I know John and I know the nuances of his voice,” she says. “And there would be no way you’d have been able to tell that he was not singing that song."
Her horror deepened when Drake used AI to resurrect the voice of late rapper Tupac Shakur on his song Taylor Made Freestyle earlier this year.
The track was subsequently removed after lawyers from Tupac's estate threatened to sue, but Crow says it should never have been released in the first place.
“You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that,” she protests.
“I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn't do it, but I'll say sorry later’. But it’s already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down.
“It's hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”
As the mother of two teenagers, she’s worried about the implications of AI not just in music, but in politics and society.
If voices and likenesses can be faked, how do we stop the spread of misinformation? And what happens to the workforce when AI takes over everyday tasks?
“I talk to my kids about it,” she says.
“I'm like, ‘You're growing up with this thing and it doesn't seem dangerous to you because you're a frog in a pot of water. But the water is only just starting to boil, and you won’t realise it's getting hotter until we're all floating on the top’.”
The star has already called on politicians to enact tighter controls on AI - but although she’s concerned about the rapidity of its progress, she also sees a sliver of hope.
“AI can do lots of things, but it can't go out and play live,” she says.
“So as long as we have live music, as long as we have hands holding a paintbrush, all is not lost.”
Sheryl Crow: 'Resurrecting Tupac with AI is hateful'
Sheryl Crow has something to get off her chest.
Over the years, the nine-time Grammy winner has never been scared to voice her opinion.
Known for the classic roots rock of songs like My Favourite Mistake and All I Wanna Do, she has also used her voice to campaign on issues like gun control and climate change.
Now, she has her sights set on Artificial Intelligence.
The title track of her new album, Evolution, grapples with the impact of AI on people and the planet.
Speaking to the BBC, she characterises the technology as a “slippery slope” and “a betrayal” that “goes against everything humanity is based on”.
Her attention was focused on the software last year, after meeting a young songwriter who’d been employing it in her work.
Frustrated that male artists wouldn’t listen to her demos, Crow's acquaintance paid to have an AI clone of singer-songwriter John Mayer replace her vocals.
When Crow heard the song, she was so “terrified” that she was “literally hyperventilating”.
“I know John and I know the nuances of his voice,” she says. “And there would be no way you’d have been able to tell that he was not singing that song."
Her horror deepened when Drake used AI to resurrect the voice of late rapper Tupac Shakur on his song Taylor Made Freestyle earlier this year.
The track was subsequently removed after lawyers from Tupac's estate threatened to sue, but Crow says it should never have been released in the first place.
“You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that,” she protests.
“I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn't do it, but I'll say sorry later’. But it’s already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down.
“It's hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”
As the mother of two teenagers, she’s worried about the implications of AI not just in music, but in politics and society.
If voices and likenesses can be faked, how do we stop the spread of misinformation? And what happens to the workforce when AI takes over everyday tasks?
“I talk to my kids about it,” she says.
“I'm like, ‘You're growing up with this thing and it doesn't seem dangerous to you because you're a frog in a pot of water. But the water is only just starting to boil, and you won’t realise it's getting hotter until we're all floating on the top’.”
The star has already called on politicians to enact tighter controls on AI - but although she’s concerned about the rapidity of its progress, she also sees a sliver of hope.
“AI can do lots of things, but it can't go out and play live,” she says.
“So as long as we have live music, as long as we have hands holding a paintbrush, all is not lost.”
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Fuck off you dumb fucking slut bitch you 100% categorically were not “terrified” and “literally hyperventilating”. Hyperbole has ruined modern journalism and victim culture has fucked up people’s minds in general. Everything is so extreme that even genocide means not letting men flash their cocks at underage girls. I hate hate hate hate hate these hyperbolic faggots so much I’m literally shaking.
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Buckle up guys, I’ve got a lot of shit to post here and I really don’t know where else to post it. Lord Miles, the self-proclaimed “Last Great British Explorer,” has posted a new video declaring that his next journey, after traveling to Orania, South Africa, will be visiting the North Sentinel Island. This is the island full of Bronze Age Pajeets that kill anyone who sets foot there. The island is also guarded 24/7 by the pajeet navy to keep anyone from going there. He posted a video about it:
He has also tweeted a LOT about it, declaring TND. (Total North Sentinelese Death). He has included his plans of survival which include armor that arrows can’t pierce, as well as copious amounts of mace to incapacitate them.
Someone told him that they were going o contact the Indian navy, so he beat them to the punch and contacted them himself to alert them of his plans.
He has also been shitting in Indians (no pun intended) in general.
This on the heels of his trip to Orania where he has done nothing but shit on South Africa and the South African government.
This should get interesting! (Full disclosure: I have not watched the YouTube video. I have just been following along on X).
He has also tweeted a LOT about it, declaring TND. (Total North Sentinelese Death). He has included his plans of survival which include armor that arrows can’t pierce, as well as copious amounts of mace to incapacitate them.
Someone told him that they were going o contact the Indian navy, so he beat them to the punch and contacted them himself to alert them of his plans.
He has also been shitting in Indians (no pun intended) in general.
This on the heels of his trip to Orania where he has done nothing but shit on South Africa and the South African government.
This should get interesting! (Full disclosure: I have not watched the YouTube video. I have just been following along on X).
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This guy deserves getting his head exploded with an arrow like a watermelon at this point. He's asking to get shot.
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Keep in mind that there is also a Lord Miles thread on here too.
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@Rome's rightful successor i considered posting there but this is unrelated to the taliban article so I didn’t want to muck it up. Perhaps I should have anyway.
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No problem, someone should really retitle that thread to "Lord Miles' world adventures" or something.
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I can't be the only one here wishing this guy great success in all his endeavors.
Also, how am I just now hearing about this whites only town in SA. Is that a real thing? How legitimately whites only is it.
Also, how am I just now hearing about this whites only town in SA. Is that a real thing? How legitimately whites only is it.
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Hope he colonizes this island for the king
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> I need a woman
> I need a doctor
> a few Amazon Prime cheap bows
> a golden color spray can
> a lot of coconuts
I don't think the self deprecating autism jokes are actually jokes...
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The Taliban should have beheaded this fucking retard.
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I can only see this ending poorly. Unless he puts together a private army, in which case I can see it ending extremely poorly. I am however, here for it.
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All of the previous explorers came in peace. He’s coming under the threat of war. Maybe it will work this time. He’s kind of growing on me.
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He understands he's going to likely murder all of them by bringing over diseases, right? Not going to be super surprised if the India Navy just blows his ship out of the water.
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Attention seeking spoiled faggot. Gonna be real shitty when emergency response resources are wasted on saving this dipshit.
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This is based, some of you are acting like karens
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Who of value were the Indian coast guard going to save in the meantime? An Indian? I am declaring this based, for God, glory and gold.
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His first 4chan thread from Afghanistan was amusing but he's gone all in on the attention seeking behavior and it's really obnoxious. If MrBeast did the exact same shit everyone would be rightly shitting on him. Miles puts himself out for attention, so I'm calling him a faggot.
He's got that reddit syndrome of how he did one funny thing one time and then just kept doing the same bit over and over and over trying to relive it. Like that "you take my breath away" faggot and Keanu Reeves trying to turn one short lived meme into his streaming career. At least Sam Hyde is funny and tries new shit out sometimes.