A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
- Lunkhead
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A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Blood and Fire
Due: Wednesday, 01/31/24 9:59am PST
optional challenge: Don't use AI
yourbandname_baf.mp3 sent to fightmaster@songfight.org
Subject: Blood and Fire
Body: (your band name)
Due: Wednesday, 01/31/24 9:59am PST
optional challenge: Don't use AI
yourbandname_baf.mp3 sent to fightmaster@songfight.org
Subject: Blood and Fire
Body: (your band name)
- rone rivendale
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
I mean, just tell me you miss Rone Rivendale. I got you, my guy.
From spoken word to actual singing, I can screw up any style with style.
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
optional optional challenge: use ALL the AI
blippity blop ya don’t stop heyyyyyyyyy
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Optional optional optional challenge: Use AI all you want, don't tell anybody* and see if they notice.
*until you do your reviews. You ARE doing reviews, right?
*until you do your reviews. You ARE doing reviews, right?
Evil Grin bandcamp - Evil Grin spotify
T.C. Elliott bandcamp - T.C. Elliott spotify
"PigFramer: Guy and guitar OF MY NIGHTMARES." - Blue Lang
T.C. Elliott bandcamp - T.C. Elliott spotify
"PigFramer: Guy and guitar OF MY NIGHTMARES." - Blue Lang
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
throptional challenge: have AI write your reviews
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Man, these recent 2 fights have been my first back since an AI capable of writing lyrics was available. For two fights I resisted the temptation to plug the title into Bing and let 'er rip, but this time, after the admonishment of the optional challenge, I've tried it already. I'm gonna go stash the lyrics it wrote in the lyrics marte, and continue trying to write without it.
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Trying not to be a curmudgeon, but I feel like I'll probably not have any desire to review AI lyrics. Using AI seems more like SongCockfight than the cage match that is SF.
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Thankfully the challenge is to not use it, and TBH that should always be part of the implied challenge. We’re already speedrunning songwriting here, no sense also speedrunning songwriting talent.
Put another way: we’re RTA, not TAS.
Put another way: we’re RTA, not TAS.
- rone rivendale
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
In case there was any confusion, I write all my own lyrics. The AI portion is a vocal filter. And the most recent fight, an AI made singing pattern and music creation. At no point have I had AI create my lyrics. There'd be no point in submitting at that point.
From spoken word to actual singing, I can screw up any style with style.
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Well, yeah, but when everybody keeps talking about AI then I'm gonna at least go see what it does, curiosity and cats all that.
My curiousity was satisfied that I can write better lyrics than the machine did, or at least lyrics that *I* like better, even if I'm currently still stumped.
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Oh absolutely. I had AI-written "Radio Galaxy" lyrics which were surprisingly good but not good enough for me to want to record, and I used AI as a sort of bouncing-ideas-off-of thing when I was writing "Material Change" but none of the lyrics GPT came up with for that stuck (but it gave me ideas for better stuff).
I like AI as a collaborative tool or an idea generator, not so much as a thing to actually do the work.
I like AI as a collaborative tool or an idea generator, not so much as a thing to actually do the work.
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Nick Cave famously described AI-written lyrics as "a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human" in a post from January 2023. I just discovered that he doubled down on this later when someone asked him what was wrong about "faster and easier": https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt ... nd-easier/
(Of course, you don't need ChatGPT to get this sort of pointless lyrics. Many things that got played up and down on the radio in the past couple of decades are just as pointless, all without ChatGPT...)
(Of course, you don't need ChatGPT to get this sort of pointless lyrics. Many things that got played up and down on the radio in the past couple of decades are just as pointless, all without ChatGPT...)
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
I've written a disturbing little lyric and knocked off a quick G&G sort of tune, so I hope to be in for this fight.
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Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
In with a dysfunctional ditty.