I was "laid off" this week so they could replace me with a zero-experience "generative AI coach" who never checks its correctness and has fallen far behind me in every A/B test we've done. I saw it coming with how they treated me leading up to it but also... How do I keep a job if I'm demonstrably better and get let go anyway? The absolute disregard for quality or truth is the most disturbing part of the AI wave, even beyond the moral, environmental, and human aspects.
This is the general motivation for adopting AI (and past automation in many cases too): it can't do your job better, but it can do your job much cheaper per volume. Everybody loses but the company (that might well lose down the line as people reject poor products).
My friend V who works in Marketing has beyond-stupid and clueless CEOs demanding that she use AI, which makes worse work than she would make on her own, and then expect her to produce six times her usual output because “AI is helping”. Then when she can’t keep up with their INSANE demands (who the hell expects an employee to suddenly up their output by 600%?), then they fire her. It’s happened multiple times. I just wish the CEOs understood that the people they hired are actually doing a specific job with specific experience and knowledge.
Hopefully all of these ceo’s wind up on the chopping block once their boards realize how fucked up this all is. IE, it’s not making them the profits they were promised.
I should be clear the "generative AI coach" is a human. She just has zero marketing experience and actually isn't as good with getting good AI output as I am. Yet.....
I feel like there is a comeuppance arriving soon. Once all of these companies realize they are massively overvaluing the impact of AI…which hopefully means good things for folks like you in the future.
I noticed this fifteen years ago - companies I worked with stopped caring about quality or unhappy customers - the consolidation of so many industries means customers have nowhere else to go.
I sure resonated with the one that started, "I heard my first AI jazz the other day," and have posted almost the exact same in two different posts:
April 9, 2026
What the hell? I’m in a restaurant last night and they’re playing jazz in the background on the sound system. “Desafinado” starts playing and though it seems to be the original Verve recording I’ve been hearing my whole life, something’s off. It’s the saxophone — it’s all the right notes, but the sound isn’t Stan Getz’ sound.  As the song goes on it changes - the solo is completely different. But when the melody comes back it’s note for note. I Shazam it and this is what I get (I posted a picture of the Shazam results: "Desafinado: New York Jazz Lounge").
And as I mentioned in a comment, as we were leaving, “Take the A Train” started. But it didn’t repeat the intro enough times, and the swing feel was ever so slightly off - just a fraction of a second, but I felt it in my body.
Februay 10, 2025
In other news...I had a dentist appointment this morning. I settled into the chair and heard faint gentle piano jazz coming from somewhere in the ceiling and thought, oh, that's nice. But soon enough I realized what I was hearing was a lot of right hand noodling punctuated by the occasional left hand chord—the SAME chord over and over and over again—with no melodic logic or harmonic development, no color, nothing unpredictable, and no end: just a whole lot of nothin' on and on and on and on. (And so, I realized, no actual right or left hands.) I asked the hygienist the source of the music and she pointed to a screen on the wall. I said, "That's not real music. It's not made by humans." She said she had thought it was AI and asked me how I knew. I explained what I described above, and added, "And look, how long have I been here, half an hour? Nothing has changed this whole time." When I went out to pay the bill I heard some actual music. The people in the front area had a little radio (or, I guess, a little speaker that looked like a radio) playing music by actual people, and with an actual radio DJ. I said, "I'm so glad to hear real music, unlike the AI shit in the room." They smiled and nodded and seconded my emotion.
Just last night, my spotify algorithm suggested an artist. She was amazing. TOO amazing to have never heard of her. I went to the artists’ discography. Tons of single releases All in 2026. No single full album. So I entered her name in google. She is a completely perfect AI created “ emerging artist” from Spain. I thought I might throw up. Yes, they’re upfront about it. But the general pop, w/o real musical education or an ear, will never know. And many will not care, until its Way too late.
My daughter was working as a marketing/PR copywriter and was hauled in to her managers office and berated for using AI to write her copy. The truth was that everyone else in her pool was editing and embellishing with AI but my daughter wasn’t. She stood out because she wasn’t using AI and her manager could only spot that something was “off”.
Yes, we probably are. I’ve been there. Unfortunately, for a lot of corporate execs (and customers) mediocre imitative marketing slop is just fine - plenty of humans produce it too - and most would be pushed to tell the difference…. Same crap, but cheaper? What’s to not like?
I feel like eventually the pendulum is going to sway the other way. And I think for a lot of the younger generations it maybe already is. People are getting tired of the slop, so much so that “real” stuff is even that much more appealing.
I wish they'd leave art alone. Corrupt everything, but don't mess with music, movies, etc., (might be why it's been awful in my lifetime)... I play drums, guitar, piano, bass, other percussion, and if I want a violin, sax, or flute, I hire an actual musician, but with so many using AI, I heard a semi-compelling story of a musician saying "It's either using AI, or not playing music at all".
I am late to using AI, but about a week ago, it occurred to me to run my Substack name /avatar "Wolfsdread" through Google's AI assisted search engine--the one that everyone gets automatically on Google Chrome. The search returned a seven page list of many of the titles of the Substack sections in which I've lodged comments since I joined. Not my actual comments themselves, mind you...but the title of the Substack article I was commenting in. But first...and this is the kicker...the AI search result opened with. a summary potrayal of me based upon its review of my actual comments., many of which were lodged behind Substack paywalls This was quite a surprise, especially since there is almost no information about the real me using the same search engine. But it sure knew my alias.
But wait--there's more!: after telling my wife about the search result, I realized I hadn't saved or printed it. So I ran the search again. And got a different summary portrayal. So I ran it yet again--and got a third summary portrayal. Each time, the summary write up has been different. Not entirely different, mind you, but each different enough to seriously undermine my historical faith in the search engine. I found this amusing and not a little unnerving. Run yourself through and see what you get. Your mileage should vary.
From what I have listened to on You-Tube, it is the same pattern that repeatedly copies itself. There is no imagination whatsoever. Now everybody can be a music producer and that destroys all originality and creativity. There are truly talented music makers of all stripes...A/i takes that away.
No need to call ordinary people the slobbering masses. Most folks are just trying to get by these days in an unfriendly world. AI is the last thing they have the bandwidth to deal with.
A Thai restaurant in the Sacramento burbs played a banal piano trio recording that sounded a bit like Bill Evans, but the tune went on for the entirety of my meal, and never resolved. It was a hideous experience. I was on the road, working at Beale, and so I ate out each evening. So the next time up I tried a different Thai restaurant and the same shit was playing there. I figured at the time that it was a recording, but after reading this and some Mehldau writing, I see that it was AI music. It was like the AI just hovered over the 5, and could not find the 1. Both restaurants were sickening experiences. I shoveled the food in so I could get out. Now I'll know, and I'll let the owners know should this become more commonplace. It is so sad that people don't care, or maybe think the music sophisticated.
I think one of the more dangerous aspects of AI involved in any art form, certainly music, is the infusion of mistrust; not knowing the provenance, chain of custody, where an art piece or song truly came from. The response of AI advocates is often “that’s the point—if you can’t tell if it’s AI but you ‘“like it” it therefore must be good (And) it doesn’t matter after all what its origins were.
Ah, this is an exceedingly slippery slope—back to conflating “it’s inevitable” with “it’s Best/or Good”. AI may indeed be inevitable, but not everything that is inevitable is good—the jury is far from out on how Good it is… beyond its faux-efficiency and faux-convenience.
AI is appropriate to use as an agent within a specialty, to process complex data on proteins for example. It is not appropriate for general use to deprive people of the learning experience of designing, writing, and composing. It is not appropriate to replace human interaction where judgment and discretion are needed.
Are you sure you were communicating with the real Brady Purcell? The email sounds uses language that sounds exactly like an AI impersonating Brady Purcell...
Yeah, everything about that letter set off alarm bells for me. "This isn't X, it's Y," and a bulleted list with the literal phrase "smoking gun." Ted regularly signal-boosts obviously AI-generated content. It's a really bad look (frankly embarrassing) for someone on an Anti-AI crusade, especially one based on his ostensibly superior taste and discernment for art, and the "romantic spirit." If AI-generated content is good enough for a certified jazz snob like Gioia (as much as he would protest), then maybe it IS good enough for everyone.
Obviously AI use should be judged on more dimensions than the quality of the outputs, but if you are going to make qualitative judgements of the final product, your taste better be unimpeachable.
Ok #1. I’m obviously a human not AI. #2. Every one here is absolutely missing the point. #3. The lie that that is being protected is that the 1953 Acetate of Elvis’s first recordings ( the one JW paid 300k for) was first digitally transferred was in 2015 not true. #4 I have the actual first time it was transferred to a digital media via the 1630 u matic. 1989 (Georgetown Masters) I have a literal time capsule of said work. # 5. A bit transparent clone of the 1630 working Master with 2 distinct intros for When your Heartaches Begin # 6. They have been pushing a literal lie down Elvis’s fans throats. They literally have erased the Truth to protect their multi million dollar Narrative. #7. I have the Raw flat uncompressed pre loudness war true first digital capture of the 1953 acetate performed at the CMHOF from the wet transfer my uncle’s archive. That’s the point I’ve been trying to make but no one seems to get it. Hope this clears up a few questions. I have a clear chain of custody and provenance. If there are any more questions or doubts please reach out. ✌️
I sincerely sympathize with your mission. I have no reason to personally doubt it, and every philosophical reason to endorse your fight.
But I must challenge your epistemological assumptions inherent to your point #1. There is no way for a person on this side of the screen to discern with certainty whether or not the 'you' writing those words are "obviously a human not A.I." A deceptive A.I. would say exactly the same thing. This is the great phenomenological conundrum of our day. I wish I could accept your plea at face value, but just isn't technically possible.
I'm reminded of the climax of Gary Steingart's Super Sad True Love Story, where the hero is convinced he's texting with a family friend, but discovers it may not be what he assumes when the wrong staten island ferry is blown to smithereens. Or recall the pair of doors in Jim Henson's Labyrinth, which the heroin, Sarah, must interrogate to decide which to enter: one tells the truth and the other only lies. Or you can see Joshua Stylman's confessional, "The Drift" posted just yesterday, which angered and confused his readers because they couldn't tell if it was earnest disavowal, satire, or horror. Many people unsubscribed in protest without knowing for sure - and that was of his own doing, perhaps to prove a point. We don't yet know.
The identification of authentic analogue reality is increasingly, exceedingly difficult. As long as there is a screen involved, you can be pretty sure there's a devil in the details. Sorry if that complicates your noble and willful project. I wish you success, and the true Elvis to be known. (See, he really does still live.)
U raised some really good points. But I must reverse the assumption. U may very well be part of the machine, the same machine that is being used to manufacture and systematically erase anything that doesn’t fit the narrative that they’ve been using since JW bought the acetate and created their own time line for the digitization of the acetate. The world needs to hear how Elvis’s first recording really sounds. The air of Sun Studios and the 18 year old young man not being sure of himself as a singer. Pops scratches and all the beauty of the original acetate as captured in October of 1989. We are as a society on a very sharp razors edge. The monopolization of everything. It’s quite terrifying.✌️
I'm well aware of the paradox. The more dire the image of dystopia that's rendered, the greater the risk that it gets ignored or dismissed as so much crying wolf or conspiracy theorizing, and hence the greater likelihood it arrives sooner than later, given the tacit consent that inaction implies. And yet to ignore it also expedites and excuses it.
What sort of logistical requirements, minimal investment, and material risk to assume would it take to organize a listening experience? I assume that you'd have to do a transfer from the acetates, so that you weren't risking damage on the originals, eh? How many hours of footage are you talking about? What kind of partner/investor would you need to pull such a thing off? I ask, because until someone can listen for themselves, the campaign isn't much more than words on a screen.
Kind of rhetorical questions, but I feel like promoting the project by offering limited access encounters could do a lot to raise awareness and interest.
I don't think Brady is literally AI. Obviously, he is a real person. I think that the email he sent you was written in part using an AI chatbot. While there's no hard proof, there's a set of writing conventions and tropes famously overused by AI chatbots. Brady's message contains at least 3 of them.
Hey Steve thx for the shoutout on the Hoffman forum. Seems like the details ppl worry about there is the color of the vinyl or what “ re master “ is coming out next. If you had read either of the posts and still can’t figure it out. I’m sorry. Do you even know what a 1630 u matic is??? Or anything about Mastering?? Or what a bit transparent clone is?? Right above this. I answered all the questions in a thread. Best of luck ✌️
Love your take on when AI would be appropriate. Having those stipulations would be a great start, and pull AI back from the ubiquitous nightmare it’s become.
I was "laid off" this week so they could replace me with a zero-experience "generative AI coach" who never checks its correctness and has fallen far behind me in every A/B test we've done. I saw it coming with how they treated me leading up to it but also... How do I keep a job if I'm demonstrably better and get let go anyway? The absolute disregard for quality or truth is the most disturbing part of the AI wave, even beyond the moral, environmental, and human aspects.
This is the general motivation for adopting AI (and past automation in many cases too): it can't do your job better, but it can do your job much cheaper per volume. Everybody loses but the company (that might well lose down the line as people reject poor products).
I so believe this!
My friend V who works in Marketing has beyond-stupid and clueless CEOs demanding that she use AI, which makes worse work than she would make on her own, and then expect her to produce six times her usual output because “AI is helping”. Then when she can’t keep up with their INSANE demands (who the hell expects an employee to suddenly up their output by 600%?), then they fire her. It’s happened multiple times. I just wish the CEOs understood that the people they hired are actually doing a specific job with specific experience and knowledge.
"Worse work, but the speed and volume is FANTASTIC!"
*Astonishing* defense of the indefensible, for sure
Hopefully all of these ceo’s wind up on the chopping block once their boards realize how fucked up this all is. IE, it’s not making them the profits they were promised.
Thoughts and prayers for their imminent demise
This sucks! An AI coach? Sounds like the movie "Her" turning from a comedy to a nightmare!
I should be clear the "generative AI coach" is a human. She just has zero marketing experience and actually isn't as good with getting good AI output as I am. Yet.....
I feel like there is a comeuppance arriving soon. Once all of these companies realize they are massively overvaluing the impact of AI…which hopefully means good things for folks like you in the future.
Or maybe I’m just delusional 🤷🏼♂️
I go back and forth by the day. Some days I believe the boom will break and some days I think we're so doomed.
I noticed this fifteen years ago - companies I worked with stopped caring about quality or unhappy customers - the consolidation of so many industries means customers have nowhere else to go.
I sure resonated with the one that started, "I heard my first AI jazz the other day," and have posted almost the exact same in two different posts:
April 9, 2026
What the hell? I’m in a restaurant last night and they’re playing jazz in the background on the sound system. “Desafinado” starts playing and though it seems to be the original Verve recording I’ve been hearing my whole life, something’s off. It’s the saxophone — it’s all the right notes, but the sound isn’t Stan Getz’ sound.  As the song goes on it changes - the solo is completely different. But when the melody comes back it’s note for note. I Shazam it and this is what I get (I posted a picture of the Shazam results: "Desafinado: New York Jazz Lounge").
And as I mentioned in a comment, as we were leaving, “Take the A Train” started. But it didn’t repeat the intro enough times, and the swing feel was ever so slightly off - just a fraction of a second, but I felt it in my body.
Februay 10, 2025
In other news...I had a dentist appointment this morning. I settled into the chair and heard faint gentle piano jazz coming from somewhere in the ceiling and thought, oh, that's nice. But soon enough I realized what I was hearing was a lot of right hand noodling punctuated by the occasional left hand chord—the SAME chord over and over and over again—with no melodic logic or harmonic development, no color, nothing unpredictable, and no end: just a whole lot of nothin' on and on and on and on. (And so, I realized, no actual right or left hands.) I asked the hygienist the source of the music and she pointed to a screen on the wall. I said, "That's not real music. It's not made by humans." She said she had thought it was AI and asked me how I knew. I explained what I described above, and added, "And look, how long have I been here, half an hour? Nothing has changed this whole time." When I went out to pay the bill I heard some actual music. The people in the front area had a little radio (or, I guess, a little speaker that looked like a radio) playing music by actual people, and with an actual radio DJ. I said, "I'm so glad to hear real music, unlike the AI shit in the room." They smiled and nodded and seconded my emotion.
Just last night, my spotify algorithm suggested an artist. She was amazing. TOO amazing to have never heard of her. I went to the artists’ discography. Tons of single releases All in 2026. No single full album. So I entered her name in google. She is a completely perfect AI created “ emerging artist” from Spain. I thought I might throw up. Yes, they’re upfront about it. But the general pop, w/o real musical education or an ear, will never know. And many will not care, until its Way too late.
But LIVE music will live! Who is even making money from recordings? Not me, for sure. But live ... priceless and irreplaceable!
My daughter was working as a marketing/PR copywriter and was hauled in to her managers office and berated for using AI to write her copy. The truth was that everyone else in her pool was editing and embellishing with AI but my daughter wasn’t. She stood out because she wasn’t using AI and her manager could only spot that something was “off”.
Are we doomed?
Yes, we probably are. I’ve been there. Unfortunately, for a lot of corporate execs (and customers) mediocre imitative marketing slop is just fine - plenty of humans produce it too - and most would be pushed to tell the difference…. Same crap, but cheaper? What’s to not like?
I feel like eventually the pendulum is going to sway the other way. And I think for a lot of the younger generations it maybe already is. People are getting tired of the slop, so much so that “real” stuff is even that much more appealing.
Yes! I believe this too!
ted, it seems to me that your basic requirements for AI uses are unassailable.
I wish they'd leave art alone. Corrupt everything, but don't mess with music, movies, etc., (might be why it's been awful in my lifetime)... I play drums, guitar, piano, bass, other percussion, and if I want a violin, sax, or flute, I hire an actual musician, but with so many using AI, I heard a semi-compelling story of a musician saying "It's either using AI, or not playing music at all".
I am late to using AI, but about a week ago, it occurred to me to run my Substack name /avatar "Wolfsdread" through Google's AI assisted search engine--the one that everyone gets automatically on Google Chrome. The search returned a seven page list of many of the titles of the Substack sections in which I've lodged comments since I joined. Not my actual comments themselves, mind you...but the title of the Substack article I was commenting in. But first...and this is the kicker...the AI search result opened with. a summary potrayal of me based upon its review of my actual comments., many of which were lodged behind Substack paywalls This was quite a surprise, especially since there is almost no information about the real me using the same search engine. But it sure knew my alias.
But wait--there's more!: after telling my wife about the search result, I realized I hadn't saved or printed it. So I ran the search again. And got a different summary portrayal. So I ran it yet again--and got a third summary portrayal. Each time, the summary write up has been different. Not entirely different, mind you, but each different enough to seriously undermine my historical faith in the search engine. I found this amusing and not a little unnerving. Run yourself through and see what you get. Your mileage should vary.
Hey Ted Gioa.
Did you by any chance hear that the Vietnamese government has mandated the first of your requirements for AI, Transparency of use, into law?
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-ai-law-takes-effect-first-in-south-east-asia
AI music doesn't breathe or have any heart.
From what I have listened to on You-Tube, it is the same pattern that repeatedly copies itself. There is no imagination whatsoever. Now everybody can be a music producer and that destroys all originality and creativity. There are truly talented music makers of all stripes...A/i takes that away.
I absolutely abhor that A I is being forced on us. This is BAD, really bad.
And most of the slobbering masses won't care if they are duped by this horrendous technology.
No need to call ordinary people the slobbering masses. Most folks are just trying to get by these days in an unfriendly world. AI is the last thing they have the bandwidth to deal with.
Thank you, Vanessa.
No it’s really me.
A Thai restaurant in the Sacramento burbs played a banal piano trio recording that sounded a bit like Bill Evans, but the tune went on for the entirety of my meal, and never resolved. It was a hideous experience. I was on the road, working at Beale, and so I ate out each evening. So the next time up I tried a different Thai restaurant and the same shit was playing there. I figured at the time that it was a recording, but after reading this and some Mehldau writing, I see that it was AI music. It was like the AI just hovered over the 5, and could not find the 1. Both restaurants were sickening experiences. I shoveled the food in so I could get out. Now I'll know, and I'll let the owners know should this become more commonplace. It is so sad that people don't care, or maybe think the music sophisticated.
I think one of the more dangerous aspects of AI involved in any art form, certainly music, is the infusion of mistrust; not knowing the provenance, chain of custody, where an art piece or song truly came from. The response of AI advocates is often “that’s the point—if you can’t tell if it’s AI but you ‘“like it” it therefore must be good (And) it doesn’t matter after all what its origins were.
Ah, this is an exceedingly slippery slope—back to conflating “it’s inevitable” with “it’s Best/or Good”. AI may indeed be inevitable, but not everything that is inevitable is good—the jury is far from out on how Good it is… beyond its faux-efficiency and faux-convenience.
Thanks for the shout-out to my wild AI story!
AI is appropriate to use as an agent within a specialty, to process complex data on proteins for example. It is not appropriate for general use to deprive people of the learning experience of designing, writing, and composing. It is not appropriate to replace human interaction where judgment and discretion are needed.
Are you sure you were communicating with the real Brady Purcell? The email sounds uses language that sounds exactly like an AI impersonating Brady Purcell...
Yeah, everything about that letter set off alarm bells for me. "This isn't X, it's Y," and a bulleted list with the literal phrase "smoking gun." Ted regularly signal-boosts obviously AI-generated content. It's a really bad look (frankly embarrassing) for someone on an Anti-AI crusade, especially one based on his ostensibly superior taste and discernment for art, and the "romantic spirit." If AI-generated content is good enough for a certified jazz snob like Gioia (as much as he would protest), then maybe it IS good enough for everyone.
Obviously AI use should be judged on more dimensions than the quality of the outputs, but if you are going to make qualitative judgements of the final product, your taste better be unimpeachable.
If you accuse Brady of being AI, you need proof. He’s commenting on this thread. Why don’t you reach out to him?
Ok #1. I’m obviously a human not AI. #2. Every one here is absolutely missing the point. #3. The lie that that is being protected is that the 1953 Acetate of Elvis’s first recordings ( the one JW paid 300k for) was first digitally transferred was in 2015 not true. #4 I have the actual first time it was transferred to a digital media via the 1630 u matic. 1989 (Georgetown Masters) I have a literal time capsule of said work. # 5. A bit transparent clone of the 1630 working Master with 2 distinct intros for When your Heartaches Begin # 6. They have been pushing a literal lie down Elvis’s fans throats. They literally have erased the Truth to protect their multi million dollar Narrative. #7. I have the Raw flat uncompressed pre loudness war true first digital capture of the 1953 acetate performed at the CMHOF from the wet transfer my uncle’s archive. That’s the point I’ve been trying to make but no one seems to get it. Hope this clears up a few questions. I have a clear chain of custody and provenance. If there are any more questions or doubts please reach out. ✌️
Hi Brady,
I sincerely sympathize with your mission. I have no reason to personally doubt it, and every philosophical reason to endorse your fight.
But I must challenge your epistemological assumptions inherent to your point #1. There is no way for a person on this side of the screen to discern with certainty whether or not the 'you' writing those words are "obviously a human not A.I." A deceptive A.I. would say exactly the same thing. This is the great phenomenological conundrum of our day. I wish I could accept your plea at face value, but just isn't technically possible.
I'm reminded of the climax of Gary Steingart's Super Sad True Love Story, where the hero is convinced he's texting with a family friend, but discovers it may not be what he assumes when the wrong staten island ferry is blown to smithereens. Or recall the pair of doors in Jim Henson's Labyrinth, which the heroin, Sarah, must interrogate to decide which to enter: one tells the truth and the other only lies. Or you can see Joshua Stylman's confessional, "The Drift" posted just yesterday, which angered and confused his readers because they couldn't tell if it was earnest disavowal, satire, or horror. Many people unsubscribed in protest without knowing for sure - and that was of his own doing, perhaps to prove a point. We don't yet know.
The identification of authentic analogue reality is increasingly, exceedingly difficult. As long as there is a screen involved, you can be pretty sure there's a devil in the details. Sorry if that complicates your noble and willful project. I wish you success, and the true Elvis to be known. (See, he really does still live.)
MH
U raised some really good points. But I must reverse the assumption. U may very well be part of the machine, the same machine that is being used to manufacture and systematically erase anything that doesn’t fit the narrative that they’ve been using since JW bought the acetate and created their own time line for the digitization of the acetate. The world needs to hear how Elvis’s first recording really sounds. The air of Sun Studios and the 18 year old young man not being sure of himself as a singer. Pops scratches and all the beauty of the original acetate as captured in October of 1989. We are as a society on a very sharp razors edge. The monopolization of everything. It’s quite terrifying.✌️
I'm well aware of the paradox. The more dire the image of dystopia that's rendered, the greater the risk that it gets ignored or dismissed as so much crying wolf or conspiracy theorizing, and hence the greater likelihood it arrives sooner than later, given the tacit consent that inaction implies. And yet to ignore it also expedites and excuses it.
What sort of logistical requirements, minimal investment, and material risk to assume would it take to organize a listening experience? I assume that you'd have to do a transfer from the acetates, so that you weren't risking damage on the originals, eh? How many hours of footage are you talking about? What kind of partner/investor would you need to pull such a thing off? I ask, because until someone can listen for themselves, the campaign isn't much more than words on a screen.
Kind of rhetorical questions, but I feel like promoting the project by offering limited access encounters could do a lot to raise awareness and interest.
I don't think Brady is literally AI. Obviously, he is a real person. I think that the email he sent you was written in part using an AI chatbot. While there's no hard proof, there's a set of writing conventions and tropes famously overused by AI chatbots. Brady's message contains at least 3 of them.
There’s a post from him (apparently) about the same issue on the Steve Hoffman forum a couple of weeks ago. No replies. Here’s the link, but what exactly is the fraud that is being perpetrated? https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/1989-pcm-1630-bit-transparent-clone-of-1953-elvis-sessions.1247253/
Hey Steve thx for the shoutout on the Hoffman forum. Seems like the details ppl worry about there is the color of the vinyl or what “ re master “ is coming out next. If you had read either of the posts and still can’t figure it out. I’m sorry. Do you even know what a 1630 u matic is??? Or anything about Mastering?? Or what a bit transparent clone is?? Right above this. I answered all the questions in a thread. Best of luck ✌️
The smoking gun lol
Love your take on when AI would be appropriate. Having those stipulations would be a great start, and pull AI back from the ubiquitous nightmare it’s become.