Lilly Schwartz

This isn’t the final screen or the final keyboard most likely because it’s a 68 key layout, but the functionality is there already. The connectivity is pretty similar to what I’m actually planning to do too, so I’m now just waiting for deliveries.

Some legit prototyping going on. The Raspberry pi Zero has the most obnoxious USB port, USB micro. I couldn’t get any of my keyboards to work, so auto-login and piping my ssh command outputs into /dev/tty1 got me typing in vim on the screen. Fixed two cross system incompatibilities in my code too.

Already got it along with the Toning book by Annette Golaz. They’re both so good! I’m kinda trying to keep things affordable, so I’m quite happy that Canson XL works quite well for me.

That was the mysterious thing: same paper, same chemicals. I can only conclude that I forgot to add vinegar while I was developing the one on the right.

I've figured out how to get vim to show markdown formatting inline and I already coded the last dialog for my proof of concept. Now it's time to install the raspberry pi and test it.

YouTube video by April 5, 2063 "Alright, let's just get started before my headache gets any worse." Captain Janeway

Ah, the joys of time travel! youtu.be/TZQk8Buamak?...

😎 Hilariously it's not too far from what I'm actually planning to build 🤣 Super excited about this one!

My broken iPad arrived. The description said it doesn't turn on, but it actually did. The touchscreen is half broken, but the screen itself is intact and clear without any hotspots. That's a tenner well spent! This could be fairly usable with a keyboard and a mouse, but it's too old for iPad OS.

25 years ago I complained bitterly about the uselessness of coding bash menus in this day and age 😂 I was young and foolish 👵🏻

There we go. Nearly done. I just need to code one more entry and this should be functional enough to try. I just got my raspberry pi zero 2W in the mail straight from China and I have a little touch screen that I can use to test this little concept.

Sounds about right. And if those other artists can just use AI to get their loops it's gonna get a little difficult for a lot of musicians. Royalties from music that is used in all sorts of media is similar.

But then I wouldn't want it to be entirely automated either because it's also a nice thing to spend time with your images. When I have 20+ rolls to dust spot I wish for a one click solution. When it's just a single roll I really don't mind. And the picture I restored in the video was in a bad state.

YouTube video by Lilly Schwartz Restoring a 70 year old picture - AI can’t do this (yet)

It really depends how much dust is involved and how many pictures too. I spend many hours dust spotting my images, so a one click solution would save me a lot of work when it comes to film. Already digital ICE helps, but I shoot a lot of BW. It's this video here.

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In different ways ... AI gets trained on the behaviour of people, on trends in music etc., etc. but the music library itself also at least used to be a target for that. Back in the day when I studied at uni there was an article about that which has mysteriously disappeared from the internet.

You know captchas on website to test whether you're human? That stuff is perfect for training AIs. Spotify is also a problem in this way. They actually have never been profitable and yet they somehow stick around. The purpose of that service is to be an AI training set.

At the moment there is no way of preventing that and nothing within copyright law that gives the artist any way of fighting back against that. And of course there will be a period when this is exploited until there is a court case that settles it, like with sampling etc.

Frankly a lot of stock music is just as generic as this AI generated stuff. Musicians make income with elevator stock music, so this is definitely hurting people already. Not to mention the make-this-in-the-style-of musician X instead of hiring the musician because they're expensive.

And of course photo applications are also quite promising. I actually would like a tool that removes dust intelligently from film scans. In its current iteration it's pretty unusable - I made a video about that which nobody watched because the vid got targeted by bots 🙄

It can speed up work tremendously with tedious work - hunting resonant frequencies for example - and generally it's a really great tool for many different purposes in music. Unless of course it is used to replace actual musicians and audio engineers by scraping their work without permission.

Considering that most musicians have destroyed their hearing to some extent thanks to loud gigs, loud instruments that tax only one part of the frequency spectrum etc and age related hearing loss, it's really useful to catch your "blindspots", i.e. the stuff that you simply don't hear anymore.

In music it is often used in mixing and mastering too which is very difficult because you have to keep in mind that everyone uses different speakers, headphones etc and everyone's ears are sensitive in different ways too. AI can make this easier and it's a great help for people with hearing loss too

The intention behind it wasn't to imitate existing musicians, like it is used now but to come up with stuff that would seem intuitively unmusical from a Western perspective but still somehow works. The idea wasn't to copy, but to come up with something entirely new.

The way I was taught generative AI at uni was to use it in a collaborative way. This was in the context of music primarily. So you'd use it to generate some sort of musical pattern and then write something yourself around it. It can come up with things that are very different from what we would do.

I'm not sure the way images are being cropped when they don't fit the aspect ratio works quite right on here. I see a lot of chopped off heads in portrait orientation and it does the same thing with wide screen images.

I'm doing some bash scripting for my newest project. Curious to see how this will perform on an e-ink screen.

On an algorithmic platform you want AI to understand you, because then the algorithm can promote your stuff better. I'm not sure it makes so much sense on here, especially if you came here because you're worried about AI. And yes, capitalism is why we can't have nice things.

Oh and since we're on the topic: Let me remind you that adding alt text to your images actually makes it much easier to scrape by AI. Remember, adding subtitles to your videos and alt text to your images makes them more easily understandable for AI. Right now it's still better at text than images.

Again: I have nothing against AI as such. When used in the right way it has tremendous creative potential. If you wouldn't pay for mixing and mastering anyway because you're a broke musician, by all means, use AI for that. In the hands of capitalists it is a dangerous and destructive tool though.

Got contacted by an AI company to endorse their tool. They did zero research before contacting me. I have a degree in AI, so unless your AI tool is open source I won't even bother looking at it 🤷‍♀️

I think I may have an old Macbook Pro from 2009 or 2011 or something like that which might still work without the battery. That thing was from before the Intel thermal issues, I don't think I ran into any stability problems on it. Something to investigate.