12mo ago

"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI

MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License," and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

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12mo ago

MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI

arstechnica.com /information-technology/2024/04/mit-license-text-becomes-viral-sad-girl-piano-ballad-generated-by-ai/

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This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
🎂
- Aperture Science.
  We do what we must
  Because we can.
  For the good of all of us.
  Except the ones who are dead.
  
  Bu there's no sense crying over every mistake
  We just keep on trying till we run out of cake.

So... People are actually using the term "prompt engineer"...
- wait till people start calling it AI programmer
  
  They did refer to people charged with vacuum cleaning PCs and reinstalling Windows as "programmers" too often in my childhood.
  Though one of the reasons was that sometimes they filled both roles, and also had to look after plants.
- No different than someone calling a janitor a "sanitation engineer". Fancy titles make people happy.
  
  There are sandwich artists and sanitation engineers. Everyone knows they get paid like crap.
  Unfortunately "prompt engineers" seem to be getting paid small fortunes when their job is essentially using a massive amount of computing power to commit various levels of intellectual property theft they hope no one will notice.

"Permission is Hereby Granted" always makes me sooo emotional

Quite the meta statement of mainstream music

This should be a standard feature of any ToC that people don't read anyway

Meh, Elton John did this with an oven manual…. On the spot.

Whow. This is both amazing and funny. It is also musically blunt and uninteresting, but still amazing.
- The electro swing zombie apocalypse ToS is better https://app.suno.ai/song/4e6b1da9-b5b3-453d-a5df-aaafbe54b98d
  But yeah you can make some legit cool songs
  https://app.suno.ai/song/96bc0f97-cd3c-4b72-8ace-e944866d26f9
  https://app.suno.ai/song/746a7054-c3ee-44c5-97f7-96b8b96e0762
  https://app.suno.ai/song/0c2a814c-2b4b-4892-91ed-2c475e92c495

I love how the melody was just kind of random and only existed because the ai was able to stay in one key, and I love how the ai completely failed to take advantage of the partial rhymes on the text to make it somewhat poetical, this is very comforting that ai still can't make a better song than i can in an hour and a half