TimR

They flew 117 drones into an airbase and systematically targeted and destroyed specific individual planes carrying cruise missiles. Reportedly 34% of Russia's cruise missile capability was lost in that one attack. That's not setting off a bomb and hoping you do a load of damage and scare people. And while those drones were each piloted by an individual operator back home in Ukraine, you can bet there's a ton of AI being used to assist and identify targets.

There will have to be restrictions put onto the type of content it can produce. Or some kind of digital watermark put into all video content in order for anything to be shared. Looking at the drone attacks on Russia at the weekend, AI is the least of our worries. Imagine a lorry driving into central London on a busy day.

I'm finding more recently people are having problems directly talking to people face to face and discussing their problems and feelings openly. Resorting to messenger, WhatsApp, emails etc, where all meaning gets lost. I have recently fallen foul of someone who has been saying things like "Some people might feel..", unfortunately unless those people actually say they don't want to... directly to me, then it's a hypothetical "some people.". Now, that 'someone' has thrown their toys out of the pram, said they're not being listened to, and walked. If they'd said in the first place: "I'm sorry but I don’t want to...", we could have sorted it all out a lot soon.

I'd say the issue here was auditioning and accepting a new player without the whole band on board to agree. I got fed up with playing Rock/Blues to an audience who kept asking us to "Play something we know." and "Play something we can dance to." We now play modern pop with a rock edge and frequently get comments like "It's good to hear something different from the usual blues rock we get." and people actually get up and dance. Bands evolve, time to move on, although it's preferable to be the one making the decision to leave.

Maybe he's upping sticks and moving to the UK. Who would blame him?

Facebook is a really bad place to air those kinds of things. Certainly if it's going to end up with the lawyers. Tronald Dump has got a lot to answer for.

It's not very environmentally friendly. Creating trinkets that will mainly gather dust once the initial buzz has passed and the next CD is released. That's mainly what marketing and consumerism depends on. What's the objective? Raise money, or spread the band's name in the hope more people come to gigs in other towns than where your mates live, and you make money from that?

It all depends on context. If a mistake doesn't detract from the final article then you're not going to rerecord it. Back in the day you'd have to spend hours physically cutting and splicing tape, it was easier to recored the whole piece again. Then with ADAT you could find bits and punch in. The last recording I did (using pro-tools) I made one audible mistake, really bad wrong note. It was fixed using auto-tune in seconds. The same note length, accent, everything, just the pitch altered for that single note. Miming is not a problem if it's Top of the Pops. The technology and time constraints meant rotating and sound checking 10 bands for a 30 minute program wasn't practical and the idea was to showcase a single, not the band. Many singles would never have been reproduced live. If I'm going to see a live show, I want to see no miming(singing or playing), whether it's a band in a pub, Madonna or a West End Show. Others may expect something else. I'd rather watch Maddonna (or others of that style) sing and dance less than dance more and mime. That's what the dancers are for. My brother has seen both Prince and David Gray restart songs because of various issues. That's live music for you. And people should be upfront about it.

Listening to the Scott podcast, they bring up a valid point. 800,000+ people have been taken in by a grifter, when real musicians have been honing their craft and working on building a following for years, this guy rolls up and essentially cheats his way to the top 5. Half of it is the fault of people who unquestioningly believe what they see on the Internet. Beato was, until the guy was sitting in front of him and exposed.

I use Spotify. Mainly for listening to podcasts. It also lets you add your own audio files. Which I'm not sure people are aware of, so I have a load of playlists created from recordings I've made on my phone from rehearsals.

Point the amp at his ears instead of his knees. And if he is using a vocal mic, the placement is key.

How do you get your music to new audiences?

Scott has caught up...

A lie will get halfway round the world before the truth has its boots on. It's a shame that the flat eather, anti-vaxers, and other various conspiracy theorists don't get as much stick. But there's not a lot of money in that compared to what the grifters can make selling dodgy apps and snake oil.

I seem to be missing from the list, but may not have categorically said "I'm in" back on page 2 in January. 😆

This is what all T-shirts look like in AI land.

My understanding is he was called out about it a long time ago. Showed no signs of reining in, and just doubled down.

I'm 56, I don't own a CD player. I do buy T-shirts if they look good and I can wear it in the high street or pub without looking odd, stand out or edgy. There might be mileage in producing CD like cardboard inserts with a personal userID and link to a download area containing special editions and bonus tracks not available on Spotify. People can then visit the area, sign in with their userID. Then either add that to their Spotify app as a download or burn to a CD. However, the point of having free sharable music, is that your audience grows exponentially through word of mouth and then people come to your gigs, buy t-shirts and tickets. Important now that hardly anyone listens to the Charts...

It used to be very noticeable when playing in pits, and when recording. I don't think I've ever noticed it in pub bands. Sometimes you can become sensitised to things, once you hear them, you can never unhear them...

If only there were some kind of age verification system in place... The whole problem with the Internet, is you cannot identify the person you are communicating with. Even the banks who have tons of fraud prevention measures in place, cannot be 100% sure.

It's very easy to 'police'. Someone complains, they investigate. If your moderators have been doing their job, you won't have an issue in the first place. If something does slip past the moderators, the very fact you have active moderators with policies in place protects you and any children. No one is going to be patrolling the Internet looking for problems in the off chance they'll find them.

Technically its fraud if people are paying you money to do it. He's not just "pretending to play guitar". But, I was just commenting on the fact that proceeds are often recovered.

Often it will be the cost and likelihood of recovery vs the amount recovered. No one is going to pay thousands of pounds to recover a few YouTube royalties.