Fine-tuned on pure rap data to create an AI system specialized in rap generation
Expected capabilities include AI rap battles and narrative expression through rap
Rap has exceptional storytelling and expressive capabilities, offering extraordinary application potential
Using a certain other music generator I got it to accidentally say ***. It said it with a Latino American accent too.
In fact for whatever reason this tool couldn’t use a typical AAVE voice. Just Sage Francis / Atmosphere like dictionary raps and a few Latino American ones.
A big limitation of AI sloop is it tries to not offend anyone.
> A big limitation of AI sloop is it tries to not offend anyone.
That tends to be very true of major commercially-hosted and proprietary systems, and true (but somewhat less and less consistently so) of open foundation models from corporations and big labs, but community models (including community fine tunes of big-vendor open models) much less so. This is very visible in LLMs, image models, and video models right now.
Rap (and even music more generally) models don't have as much attention right now, but I suspect if/as they get more attention and community use the same dynamic is likely to emerge.
> Art that can’t even try to offend is barely art.
I do not believe that offense is a necessary or sufficient component of art. If I raise my middle finger at someone, that is not art, but rather offense. If I view Botticelli's Primavera, I'm looking at art, and I detect no intent to offend, nor do I take offense.
There is certainly room for offense within art: the iambic poetry of Archilochus and Hipponax manages to blend aesthetic beauty with ardent invective. But I do not think that art needs or is defined by offense. Offense is accidental to art as a concept.
>Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈvɛːra], meaning "Spring") is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s (datings vary). It has been described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world",[1] and also "one of the most popular paintings in Western art".[2]
Not in the least. Controversy doesn't mean offense. The controversies around the painting relate to its interpretation, to who the model for the main figure might be, to the reasons for the number of variety of plants in the painting... none of which offer offense.
Controversy and debate do not have to be offensive or even acrimonious, and controversies can arise around a subject like a painting without arising because of any offense given in the painting.
Many cultures would regard the content of the painting to be inappropriate though.
Offense doesn't need to mean that it's meant to shock.
I suspect most mainstream AI art generators would refuse to replicate it. Doing so would "offend" the original art.
But a human artist could, perhaps a talented woman flips the gender.
Humans will always be able to challenge us in ways AIs can't.
At home and around close friends I often speak in AAVE. It's apart of my culture and at a core level, me.
When an AI rap generator decides it can't do AAVE, it's saying the very identity that created rap in the first place is offense. I don't expect a masterpiece like Illmatic, but I've yet to hear anything decent from an AI rap generator.
> Art that can’t even try to offend is barely art.
Good art is secondary to avoiding some journalist writing a hit piece about how they used your company’s AI generator to depict Hitler saying the gamer word.
The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky) has entered the chat!
And if that's not offensive enough, Music in Similar Motion by Glass, or Metal Machine Music by Pat Metheny or any of Glenn Branca's "guitar symphonies" will likely do the job for most people.
Fine-tuned on pure rap data to create an AI system specialized in rap generation Expected capabilities include AI rap battles and narrative expression through rap Rap has exceptional storytelling and expressive capabilities, offering extraordinary application potential
Using a certain other music generator I got it to accidentally say ***. It said it with a Latino American accent too.
In fact for whatever reason this tool couldn’t use a typical AAVE voice. Just Sage Francis / Atmosphere like dictionary raps and a few Latino American ones.
A big limitation of AI sloop is it tries to not offend anyone.
Art that can’t even try to offend is barely art.