u/Inevitable-Law7964

I'm Phantasmoplasm. Probably almost no one knows me. I wasn't very active but enjoyed making weird gags, inside jokes about Los Angeles, circuitous postmodern stuff, metacommentary. I made Audrey Hepburn read the first lines of the Lovecraft story Nyarlathotep, stuck Lucy in a muscular Marx "I'm joining the war on autism on the side of the autism" shirt once, did other similar kinds of silly shit.

I'm looking for where some others might have gone. I loved humanbeingbeing and their videos. So vibrant and amazing! Neopalladio also had a cool funky style. I'd be over the moon to be able to find either of them.

I wouldn't mind tracking down Dnormous either, or really anyone who was doing weird shit.

There are so many more names I don't really remember so feel free to share your favorites too if you know where they've gone.

(Where I've gone is Suno & I am also Phantasmoplasm there.)

Someone on r/aiMusic issued a challenge to make a musically bad song on Suno, which is indeed difficult.

Their point was that the engine defaults to making generic music that is neither good nor bad. I had fun fighting it to generate a pretty awful song. Even learned some music theory in the process.

Anyway... Let's have some challenges!

Either drop me a request, or make your own challenge post and link it here. I'd like to try new things that I didn't think of myself as an exercise to explore the engine. I bet others could benefit from it too.

(I usually write my own lyrics, so I may not get to all, but I'll try to go first come first serve unless I'm really stuck or really inspired.)

I just realized something the other day.

When I was a young adult in the late 90s & early 2000s, graphical user interfaces were viewed with suspicion, and text terminals were viewed as the "authentic", "skillful" way to do something with a computer.

Now it's the opposite. Doing something on a computer with a GUI is viewed as skillful, using a text interface is considered faddish noob shit.

(At least, outside of coding. Coders are generally using the new text interfaces in their work.)

So you can, if you want, historically frame the AI controversy as a new version of the GUI vs terminal wars. Just kind of fascinating, really. I wonder if the next wave is transformer architecture systems with GUI stapled on to make them "less uncool".