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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude, tell me, why do u think they have being doing this only with books and art but no music?

Thats because music really has people protecting their assets. U can have ur opinion about it, but that's the only reason they haven't ABUSED companies and people's work in music.

It's not reading, it's the equivalent of me taking a movie, making a function, charge for it, and then be displeased when the creators demand an explanation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are a few reasons why music models haven't exploded the way that large-language models and generative image models have. Maybe the strength of the copyright-holders is part of it, but I think that the technical issues are a bigger obstacle right now.

  • Generative models are extremely data-inefficient. The Internet is loaded with text and images, but there isn't as much music.

  • Language and vision are the two problems that machine learning researchers have been obsessed with for decades. They built up "good" datasets for these problems and "good" benchmarks for models. They also did a lot of work on figuring out how to encode these types of data to make them easier for machine learning models. (I'm particularly thinking of all of the research done on word embeddings, which are still pivotal to large language models.)

Even still, there are fairly impressive models for generative music.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Example of music generation: MusicLM. The abstract mentions having to create a new dataset to get these results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the meaning of "making a function" in your sentence?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like showing in the theater.

Seems like my grammar's still shit, sry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's probably much harder with music.