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Thread started 06/20/23 2:03pm

Ndorphinmachin
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Nothing Compares 2 U David Bowie Cover

What with Paul McCartney saying that he's going to use AI tools to create a final Beatles song. I wondered what AI Prince stuff was out there. (There's two songs that I could find and they're both fucking appalling). Anyway this showed up...

https://youtu.be/AoMlck2sB9A

Sorry if it's been posted before, I did a search and couldn't find anything on the org. I'm not a big Bowie fan but thought someone might enjoy it.

Edit - it's AI generated, could a mod edit the title of the post for clarity?
[Edited 6/20/23 14:08pm]
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Reply #1 posted 06/20/23 3:04pm

Am3121

Not too bad
The owner of the video claims it's a demo from 1992 in the comments section
I guess he is joking?
[Edited 6/20/23 15:04pm]
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Reply #2 posted 06/20/23 3:49pm

Ndorphinmachin
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Am3121 said:

Not too bad
The owner of the video claims it's a demo from 1992 in the comments section
I guess he is joking?
[Edited 6/20/23 15:04pm]


Yeah I saw that, but the title of the video is "AI David Bowie Sings Prince...". A Google search returned nothing about it being an authentic demo.

I can see a near future where people will go to Spotify or the like. Select a playlist or song, then select the artist you want to sing those songs.

Given the abundance of Prince material (training data for this kind of voice cloning) I'm surprised there isn't more AI Prince attempts. A couple of YouTubers have attempted to insert him into MJ's "Bad", but they sound abysmal.
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Reply #3 posted 06/20/23 3:54pm

purplethunder3
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #4 posted 06/20/23 4:14pm

Am3121

Ndorphinmachina said:

Am3121 said:

Not too bad
The owner of the video claims it's a demo from 1992 in the comments section
I guess he is joking?
[Edited 6/20/23 15:04pm]


Yeah I saw that, but the title of the video is "AI David Bowie Sings Prince...". A Google search returned nothing about it being an authentic demo.

I can see a near future where people will go to Spotify or the like. Select a playlist or song, then select the artist you want to sing those songs.

Given the abundance of Prince material (training data for this kind of voice cloning) I'm surprised there isn't more AI Prince attempts. A couple of YouTubers have attempted to insert him into MJ's "Bad", but they sound abysmal.


Something tells me Prince would not approve of this AI stuff
But it's "interesting"
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Reply #5 posted 06/20/23 4:42pm

Ndorphinmachin
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Yeah, I think he'd hate it. But it's here, or very soon will be.

The singer Grimes (I'm not familiar with her work) has already given the OK for "AI Artists" to use her voice so long as she gets 50% of the royalties.
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Reply #6 posted 06/20/23 11:45pm

smc999

Rancid, absolutely rancid.

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Reply #7 posted 06/21/23 12:11am

themanfromnept
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Funny. Not bad at all. Soul-less

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Reply #8 posted 06/21/23 12:51pm

Germanegro

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I think I'd prefer to listen to a real person's bad cover version than some AI-kind-of-thing any ole'day.

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The thread title caught my attention, but I wouldn't listen to that for any reasonable appreciation other than a novel trial of the "digital intelligence" approximation style. In artistic consideration, I will always assign these kinds of things a goose-egg.

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Reply #9 posted 06/27/23 9:36am

Vannormal

I can Dig it.

Cool shit.

Better let David Bowie sing Sign O The Times!

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3121

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
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Reply #10 posted 06/27/23 10:26am

mb71

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Utterly fucking abysmal.

Formerly TheDigitalGardener etc.
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Reply #11 posted 06/28/23 2:18am

Vannormal

For those who don't like it, i'm sure Prince would've played with the idea of AI.

he was always into new shit.

And the same even goes much more for David Bowie.

Haters are old. wink

Like me, only i don't hate.

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
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Reply #12 posted 06/28/23 3:30am

Am3121

Vannormal said:

For those who don't like it, i'm sure Prince would've played with the idea of AI.


he was always into new shit.


And the same even goes much more for David Bowie.


Haters are old. wink


Like me, only i don't hate.


Don't hate, appreciate is a good motto
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Reply #13 posted 06/29/23 5:48pm

lavendardrumma
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More like if Bowie lived to be 100, and spent his last years recovering from a stroke in Waco.

I don't think Bowie would have recorded this anyway. He had too much respect for Prince, and he would have thought he'd already done Heroes.

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Reply #14 posted 06/30/23 6:32am

MarcelS67

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More like if Bowie lived to be 100, and spent his last years recovering from a stroke in Waco.

I don't think Bowie would have recorded this anyway. He had too much respect for Prince, and he would have thought he'd already done Heroes.

Exactly, and if had, he would have had the courtesy of singing 7 hours and 13 days instead of 15 days.

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Reply #15 posted 06/30/23 6:33am

MarcelS67

MarcelS67 said:

lavendardrummachine said:

More like if Bowie lived to be 100, and spent his last years recovering from a stroke in Waco.

I don't think Bowie would have recorded this anyway. He had too much respect for Prince, and he would have thought he'd already done Heroes.

Exactly, and if he had, he would have had the courtesy of singing 7 hours and 13 days instead of 15 days.

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Reply #16 posted 06/30/23 9:20am

BalladofPeterP
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I never in a million years thought anything could make me hate my two favorite artists... I was wrong. This sounds like dog shit taped to the roof of someones mouth as they were forced at gun point to sing this song. The Terminator movies have provided a more well meaning Artificial Intelligence than this ear destroying crap.

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Reply #17 posted 06/30/23 11:12am

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Abominable! Sacrilege! mad barf
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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