Quote from: edwardofhuncote on July 10, 2026, 09:08:02 AM

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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. 

In my relatively newly adopted profession as an attorney, AI is extremely dangerous. It hallucinates. There have been attorneys that have been disbarred for using AI, which made up non-existent precedent cases that they cited in briefs and motions.

Quote from: mica on July 10, 2026, 04:22:24 AM

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.

100% agreed.  I hate these AI generated junk.  Not going to help them monetize by clicking it, or watching it.  At this point, there's really no additional knowledge gained by watching youtube videa by some random people.  If the video is made by Alembic or Jimmy, or someone on this board with vast amount of knowledge, sure.  

I think it's cool for young people to be exposed to Alembic thru these media, so I guess it serves 'some' purpose... just hope whoever takes interest in Alembic, would come to this board and starts reading.  


Takeo