JazzDubb: One-drop Heart

The comment section of "riddim" either can't or won't work the way I want it to.
Therefore, I am posting my commentary on the topic of AI here and DUB First, let's go there:
René's perspective on this is very interesting. To be honest, I lack the intellectual capacity to absorb and process it all. For me, it almost borders on academic rigor when I try to follow all the points he uses to explain his ideas. For example, when he goes back to the 18th century to explain the human condition, shaped by and through art and culture. This is by no means meant as criticism. I find this level of detail very appropriate for an article in riddim, and it demonstrates his thoughtful approach. DubHeads are normally...?
I had to start this way, however, since my version will be considerably more superficial and nowhere near as rich in content. Nevertheless, expressing my opinion is practically a hobby of mine.
I ask myself the same questions as René, and I can't rule out the possibility that my pride might be hurt if I see an AI-Dub would celebrate like a Dub from On .U Sound or from ARIWA or the good old originalsDubs from Jamaica. I still can't rationally explain why that is. But I have a few ideas.
For me, it's a kind of resistance against the world that AI is creating, or rather, has created. I have absolutely nothing against AI if it takes work off my hands that I absolutely don't want to do. But I have a lot against these orcs who misuse this AI, and I also hate that the entire internet is so vulnerable to criminal activities that bring no relief to many users, only trouble. "Deepfakes" are probably just the tip of the iceberg, although I find the brainwashing of children and teenagers with fascist garbage even worse. AND! Bureaucracy isn't being reduced in the slightest. NO! It's actually getting worse. Until about six years ago, you could easily place orders by phone. Today, I have to fill out several digital forms to submit my order, which is then sometimes processed incorrectly because the user on the other end is just as fed up with this kind of red tape. My professional experience is clearly based on the realization that a person-to-person phone call has always worked best, and actually still does. But people cost money, and there are quite a few orcs who don't care about humans at all and therefore don't even want to pay them anymore. They want to add their salaries to their billion-dollar accounts so they might finally reach a trillion. This will ultimately lead to the dictatorship of money and those who hoard it. Internet content, AI, and self-thinking drones will massively support them in this. And woe betide anyone who listens to music that wasn't produced or (de)generated by an "in-house AI." In the not-too-distant future, you'll be picked up by figures who look very similar to Darth Vader's minions. All of this is just one reason why I don't listen to music, let alone... DubI want to listen to music from an AI. But before I delve into further details, I'd like to describe my main thought on this whole development.
And there, too, a thought pops into my head that takes me back to the very beginning. I wasn't there, but I simply don't believe that anyone thought, "Hey... it's kind of boring here, doesn't anyone have a song they can play along to? Can't someone drum along?" NO! I am firmly convinced that someone felt something inside that prompted them to hum a melody to themselves or even to proclaim a few words melodically into the open or closed space. If this first moment also happened in an enclosed space—which immediately makes me think of a cave—then, due to the acoustics often found in caves, we would have had a mystical phenomenon that we know today as reverberation and echo. And for me, this clearly proves that it's simply true when people say, "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DUB "
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My point is that we humans are the ones who possess the music within us. Making music is one of the most beautiful experiences a person can have in life. And when that music pleases others and even brings them to a state of ecstasy, you probably feel almost like a god. That's why it's not so easy to stay grounded and not get carried away, at least mentally.
And music is almost always at its best when musicians play what lies deep within them, what they've always wanted to play. If they've had a hit and then only look for a second one, it very often backfires. And when record companies start interfering and telling musicians what to play so the music sells even better, it's often worse than AI-generated music. It's not always a bad thing if a producer has a clear vision of what the musicians should play. Lee Perry was so musical and possessed so much imagination that he was able to enrich entire albums with his imagination and creativity, or even to truly bring them to life in the first place. At least, if I'm not mistaken. I firmly believe that if we humans don't completely lose ourselves, there will always be talented and experimental people who pick up a musical instrument and create amazing pieces. Humans are creative enough. Music is something human, and it won't improve if it's replaced in the future by ones and zeros that can neither feel nor conceive of music. AI might not be so different in how it learns music, but it will always only be able to draw from what it can scrape together from the internet. So it's all been done before. And I sense a huge difference between a soulless tool cobbling something together and a passionate musician or DJ, following all the rules of the art and beyond, reassembling something in a very human way and thereby creating something truly new. The problem is, I can only sense it, but I can't hear it.
Well, and I've just come from Dub Spencer and Trance Hill in a Live and Direct Style, originally mixed by Umberto Echo. I'm trying to imagine this band doesn't even exist. It's all AI music. Should I go to a live concert and just stare at some console sitting motionless on stage, playing music for me? Dub Pretending to be Spencer and Trance Hill. No way? That feels weird.
And one more thing about the horror scenario of "real-time streaming." Have I misunderstood something again, or does it really mean that I can only hear each track once?
What if I really like the tune and want to listen to it 10 or 20 times in a row, and still want to years later?
Okay! I feel like I've already shared quite a lot of my opinion here, and my brain is starting to run dry for today. But speaking of "brain"... I just can't resist saying that, René?
I often read your saying, "What matters is what comes out the other end," and you stand by it. I would be very inclined to agree with you completely, especially regarding my bowel movements, but since this saying comes from our former Chancellor Kohl, perhaps we should reconsider it...?
Well, what am I supposed to do? I feel like I've written quite a lot here, and yet I still don't feel like I've really put my thoughts into words. I just can't do any better. But I couldn't have sent an AI ahead, since it wouldn't even know what I'm thinking. AI music only really makes sense to me when I look at it from the perspective of the music industry.
There are hardly any production costs anymore, no artist has to be paid, and music is churned out like clockwork. That's precisely where I see a huge problem, especially for me. I think most people couldn't care less. They don't care that much about the music. The main thing is that they follow some trend and feel comfortable in the vast herd of consumers. They'll even swallow AI-generated music if it's "hyped" somewhere on Instagram. They're all already the way the orcs want us to be: a single, stupid, disoriented mass, willingly submitting to mass manipulation and thinking they're something special. Maybe I'm making a mistake by feeling different, but even if I am just another stupid herd animal, I know that true individualists still exist out there. People with their own thoughts and visions, who aren't trying to manipulate the whole world.
AI music is like gummy bears. Mass-produced goods that sometimes taste pretty good, but there's nothing behind them. Nothing and nobody. Assembly-line, mass-produced rubbish that primarily leads to oversaturation.
I've only encountered one new one Dub I'd much rather hear from a real band a year than receive 10 million gummy bears. DubIt's from an AI. The fact that many bands probably only consist of musicians and not reggae musicians is another problem I've been feeling for a long time. That won't be much better than AI-Dub or AI – Reggae.
Another thought: In all other art forms, the use of AI is strangely of no concern to me whatsoever. Whether a graphic is created by AI or a graphic designer is irrelevant to me. Whether a painting was created by AI or Picasso is of no concern to me. But how can, for example, a graphic designer be satisfied if the graphic design they've earned money with isn't even their own? Okay, maybe a graphic designer doesn't quite see themselves as an artist yet, but then I come to the painter. How could Picasso be satisfied with one of "his" paintings if he didn't paint it himself? I think I've got it! The graphic designer is usually just fulfilling a commission. The content of their graphic design doesn't come from within. Whereas a painter like Picasso usually paints what they've always wanted to paint. Besides, painters also sometimes fulfill commissions.
I often wonder what all this brings us if it doesn't make us feel better, but rather worse than before. Back then there were (let's say) 20 new DubAlbums a year, and now it feels like there are a lot of them every day. That doesn't just fill you up, it makes you lose your appetite. You constantly feel bloated. And that's if you consume everything, mind you. I don't think that's the last I'll say on the subject.

And by the way: “Think DubI also really like "by Vol. II" by Harris Pilton! …………. lemmi