Made a move to separate the art from the slop

[inoculate23]

Hey Ace-Step,
I published a preprint last night that should put the "all ai music is slop" nonsense to bed. Two days ago I used my own interface which adds a VLLM Gemma and a Qwythos (Qwen trained on Fable traces) to a pipeline that automatically scans my followers, analyzes their tastes, images, etc and writes a custom song for them and packages the song with cover art into a threejs based webgl/html letter. That's cool.... but not the whole of it.

I got quite pissed off because after all this effort to give people something for free I received a few dm's back from people who ranted that ai music is slop. ALL OF IT. So I did something to prove it's not. And because I have 30+ years of working at the intersection of the light and the wire, the resume and the work speak for themselves. Meaning I can be polite, write a paper, and likely things will change.

Here's the paper and linked music. I mentioned and gave full credit to Ace-step. What you've built, and my own additions make it the finest musical instrument ever made or played. We shall all be remembered as the pioneers. It's on the permanent record.

https://zenodo.org/records/21456110

Sincerely and with gratitude,
Craig Ellenwood
Founder of the music element of Burning Man, ex-member of Psychic TV, now: Squaawke