I started watching this too close to bedtime, so will watch it over the weekend.
Enjoy, though i'm fairly certain that some members with first hand experience of the early days and the history of alembic will find some inaccuracies.

Already laughing about the "bass" guitar.

Gotta love the picture of the co-founder, Stanley Clarke. 

"Boob-inga!"

 

Nice documentary.  Thanks for posting, Jazzy.  The mispronunciation of bass to sound like a fish is pretty weird, but most everything else is a lot more accurate.

Bill, tgo

Quote from: Nova Constellatio on July 09, 2026, 04:57:13 PM"Boob-inga!"

 

"eeBONaz!"

 

Peter

Forgotten? 

I don't understand the point of these AI "documentaries".  Although there are some great video clips, still pictures, and even a few correct historical facts in this one, I find the mispronunciation of so many words really irritating. Who wrote this script?  Or is the entire piece completely generated from nothing?

On YouTube is there a sliding scale of financial payoff the longer you can hold eyeballs?  Is that the actual point?  Stretch the story past a certain number of minutes and you earn 3 cents instead of 2?  And who earns that exactly?

We live in some strange times my friends.

Jimmy J

Quote from: lbpesq on July 09, 2026, 05:45:56 PMNice documentary.  Thanks for posting, Jazzy.  The mispronunciation of bass to sound like a fish is pretty weird, but most everything else is a lot more accurate.

Bill, tgo

Surely you jest! I cannot agree that this is nice or that it is even a documentary. The only thing Alembic on the thumbnail image is the word Alembic. 

The number of inaccuracies is pretty high, not even considering the nearly complete disconnect between the script and the pictures. I can tolerate mispronunciation, I mean my name is Mica and I work at Alembic. But this entire endeavor (this group of videos) is cobbled together in the most lazy, offensive, and greedy way - there is no art, love, or insight. It exists for maximum monetization with the least possible human effort. Pshaw.

I made it about 5 minutes and just couldn't go on. The thumbnail was the first clue... the fake human 'cofounder' Stanley Clarke looked more real than the AI generated Alembic bass.

It just irritates me seeing these things. There are some legitimate uses for the kind of technology that's coming down the line. To Jimmy's point, who gets paid? (see the article I crossposted from bluegrasstoday.com where one of the editors questions the same general thing...)

Is this information some half-ass bots helped themselves to while they dorked up the Club for a month? And if so, is this the best they can do? The least they could have done was straightened out the Artificial Idiot pronunciation glitches. 😡

Quote from: mica on July 10, 2026, 04:22:24 AMI can tolerate mispronunciation, I mean my name is Mica and I work at Alembic.

I may have chortled at this.

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on July 10, 2026, 04:45:09 AMI made it about 5 minutes and just couldn't go on. The thumbnail was the first clue... the fake human 'cofounder' Stanley Clarke looked more real than the AI generated Alembic bass.

It just irritates me seeing these things. There are some legitimate uses for the kind of technology that's coming down the line. To Jimmy's point, who gets paid? (see the article I crossposted from bluegrasstoday.com where one of the editors questions the same general thing...)

Is this information some half-ass bots helped themselves to while they dorked up the Club for a month? And if so, is this the best they can do? The least they could have done was straightened out the Artificial Idiot pronunciation glitches. 😡

First, no there aren't legitimate uses.
Second, AI is 100% artificial & 0% intelligent.  
Many of us are getting on in years - but I fear we may yet live to see the collapse of civilization.  I'm sure my grandkids will.

Peter

This AI stuff is completely out of hand. Don't people have better things to do? I see these types of things all the time on my YouTube sidebar. Always with some clickbait title - "What went wrong?" or "The guitarist so and so said they HATE!" - along with a ridiculous picture that looks nothing like the people they're "reporting" about. Ugh...

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on July 10, 2026, 07:03:56 AM

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on July 10, 2026, 04:45:09 AMI made it about 5 minutes and just couldn't go on. The thumbnail was the first clue... the fake human 'cofounder' Stanley Clarke looked more real than the AI generated Alembic bass.

It just irritates me seeing these things. There are some legitimate uses for the kind of technology that's coming down the line. To Jimmy's point, who gets paid? (see the article I crossposted from bluegrasstoday.com where one of the editors questions the same general thing...)

Is this information some half-ass bots helped themselves to while they dorked up the Club for a month? And if so, is this the best they can do? The least they could have done was straightened out the Artificial Idiot pronunciation glitches. 😡

First, no there aren't legitimate uses.
Second, AI is 100% artificial & 0% intelligent. 
Many of us are getting on in years - but I fear we may yet live to see the collapse of civilization.  I'm sure my grandkids will.

Peter

Thanks for the mild scolding, but I think you're wrong, at least about the first part. 

There are lots of legitimate uses for AI, rapidly becoming countless. Not among them are generating slop YouTube videos like this one. That is the equivalent of spam as far as I'm concerned. But you are deluding yourself if you don't think using cutting edge technology in any way you can to gain an advantage in whatever your field is won't be used. Whether it's writing a book, running a water plant, or building a guitar, or operating on a cancer patient. It's going to happen. Or it is already and we don't know it. Civilizational collapse (or not) because of AI has more to do with how we manage and oversee the processes it's involved with. Do good things with it, and good things will come from it. Do bad things with it, well... you know. So be good, for goodness sake. 

Personally, I think Vince was just having some ironic British fun with us all.

Well, I'm obviously in the minority here, but I appreciated the way the (fake) documentary praised the ground breaking uniqueness and quality of Alembic instruments.  While we may be Alembic scholars, someone unfamiliar with the brand and the story would likely be appropriately impressed with Amebic basses after viewing this.  I did notice a significant lack of guitars, though.

As for AI, it has its uses.  I created this poster for an upcoming gig using AI.  I must admit I'm impressed.

Bill, tgo