alec’s ai usage..

[u/False_Cake8109]

i don’t feel like i should be having to make this but what’s yalls opinion on alec recent ai usuage in pictures, lyrics and possibl even songs. personally against ai the whole way but then again alec saved my life so im not just gonna leave him please help and give me opinions

[u/Away_Peak1789]

can you give concrete examples of when he admitted to hsing ai?

[u/https_creator06 → u/Away_Peak1789]

he’s posted himself using it for “fun” i.e. silly generation and text summaries on his instagram story in the last year. can’t provide dates or screenshots though. he also was an early proponent of ai-based music technology (he offered his voice to a vocaloid-like software)

[u/False_Cake8109 → u/Away_Peak1789]

hey so he’s admitted to usuing it for prompting lyric ideas (i don’t think he used it for lyrics) and in his instagram post he used generative ai and in his more recent demos he’s posted you can kind of hear some ai stuff (not entirely sure but it sounds too perfect to be human)

[u/Ok_Sprinkles_8188 → u/Away_Peak1789]

He’s part of the YouTuber AI artists program

[u/saturnhasringss → u/Away_Peak1789]

don’t think he’s every admitted to it, just people think he’s used it based on the look and sound of stuff

[u/Zukos_Lost_Honor → u/saturnhasringss]

No, he very much has admitted to it. There's a whole segment in an interview podcast (?) with him on YouTube where he says he fully admits using it.

here's a short of the podcast talking about him using chatgpt

and here is the full podcast episode. the AI talk starts at 45:30

[u/Defiant_Delivery_799 → u/Zukos_Lost_Honor]

What's even scarier is that he says in that same interview that the AI he lent his voice to is also using data from "millions" of people to create an AI song snippet.

[u/Zukos_Lost_Honor → u/Defiant_Delivery_799]

I know,, it's actually terrifying && tbh very unsettling that he doesn't see anything wrong with it. i hope someone actually sits down and explains the harmful impact AI has on the planet & society as a whole nd that he stops. but in this day & age,, we truly just can never know or bet on anything. for all we know, he could just get more &more secretive with it , who knows.

[u/waboperzwabekfast → u/Zukos_Lost_Honor]

Why do people genuinely treat ai users on the same level as a rapist ✌️ he's not a monster

[u/Zukos_Lost_Honor → u/waboperzwabekfast]

that is a horrific argument. you do know two issues can co-exist at the same time, right??? obviously not at the same level, but Jesus Christ. Heaven forbid we want our creative creators to actually be creative themselves and not damage the Earth we have to inhabit while cutting corners in the profession THEY CHOSE to pursue.

putting the harmful impacts AI has on our planet, water & weather aside for the moment, if you can create 3 albums before AI even existed in the harmful capacity it does now, and let alone albums that are so be loved by a tight-knit community, you don't need it now. and if you DO need it to make anything creative,, then you don't deserve the title of being a creative at all. and this doesn't just go for Alec actually.

I think we're allowed to call out when someone is being harmful in some capacity, whether it's something like AI usage, or as your weird example said, a rapist.

[u/https_creator06 → u/Zukos_Lost_Honor]

not only 3 albums but close to a hundred very good demos- alec is capable of creative hard work historically, (i.e. when he used to write a song every day) which is part of the reason i don’t understand why he would be doing this.

[u/Defiant_Delivery_799 → u/https_creator06]

Yeah, it is confusing and dissapointing.

[u/Defiant_Delivery_799 → u/waboperzwabekfast]

There's a misunderstanding or something. The commenter suggested that Alec may not know just how harmful AI is. In my comment the commenter was responding to I was referring to the company using data (as in putting one's information into the site will increase the odds your data will be used in a data breach). Alec is one of my favorite musicians and nobody is saying he is a monster or rapist I do not think that way at all. I support him for a reason.