If there is a silver lining to any of this AI nonsense it's that it just might wake some people up to the fact that they have been fed corporate slop for decades. AI changes nothing except it makes slop faster.
I don't wanna defend pop music too much but "catchy" is one of those aspects of music that's easy to immediately recognize but extremely hard to pull off. In order to be catchy a melody needs to be both wholly familiar feeling but also juuuuuust different enough to surprise our ears.
I'm not saying a generative AI couldn't ever pull it off if you drained enough lakes to do it, but while it's very good at producing the "familiar" it's very very bad at producing anything "surprising".
Also, the one feature I've come across (long press a link for a preview) is actually pretty useful sometimes. I'm actually impressed they discovered a use for generative AI that isn't annoying and stupid.
For a long while I wondered what would happen when Apple (a company who prides itself on it's products "just working") inevitably collided with the generative AI hype train.
At first I thought they might stay away of the whole thing, but they didn't and it's been funny watching them struggle to integrate even the simplest aspects of generative AI into their products. Anyone who knows how LLMs work know that it is wholly different than the natural language processing that goes into Siri.
Odd that it's on top of a sales chart when AI music can't be copyrighted, so anyone could just get it for free. It makes me suspect it's presence there might be inauthentic.
I'm wondering if you have the "cookie notices" and "annoyances" filters disabled? They are not checked by default. It's under settings > filter lists. FWIW the page loaded cleanly for me.
Something I've been realizing lately is that fascism's whole deal is adopting the appearances of trustworthy institutions like universities, activism and TV news (and apparently scientific papers) but the goal isn't to inform it's to persuade. All the bullshit ultimately leads to the same path.
Weird they would go through with spending a billion on this after banning "fossil fuel equipment" in all new construction recently. I wonder if the old pipelines were in bad shape or something?
I understand that running services costs money, and I've heard nothing but good things about Kagi. Can anyone here convince me it's worth the price?