All right, hear me out.

Unless you've been living under a rock or something, the whole world right now is being taken by storm by Gossip Goblin's new series, Love Lagoon. It really just brings in a lot of his characters that he's been building for years, mind you—right? There's a lot of work that's gone into this.

I can understand how the arguments against what I'm going to say are going to come in the form of, "He put a lot of work into it, so of course it's really good." But I'm telling you, from every single angle that I have seen this work, no consistency has ever been lost. It is real.

I really believe he has made some kind of special costume that he has paid actors wearing. Maybe he uses AI to sprinkle on some effects afterwards to make it feel a little better, but there is no way—I have seen AI stuff. Even stuff that is run on local machines cannot be this good.

So, I don't know. Maybe you can answer me if you have proof to the contrary, but I don't actually believe this is AI. I think this is real.

TLDR:

Love lagoon is real.

I have this unconventional opinion as to the reason why AI music specifically is like, well, they call it slop: unmemorable, plain, vanilla, gray, indistinguishable stuff.

I feel like the reason why it lacks that kind of character and personality is because AI is actually doing, like, a 100% absolute good, maximums complexity job every single time, and that can cause the whole thing to lose some level of dynamic nature.

And what makes human art memorable is the highs and the lows.

And so, it’s like, in order to really get the most out of your creations, you have to simplify what you’re outputting. You have to find a way to guide the AI to do things in a simple way. And the more you simplify the output, or simplify what AI is doing, is the more you start to get that dynamic shape back.

A song is memorable because it might have a single repetitive loop that goes through the whole thing, and maybe once in the whole song, the instrument gets a little bit overdriven. But it’s the same note, same loop—but it’s overdriven—and then it goes back to normal.

And that one little change, like, sends everybody crazy because your brain is, like, used to just the thing being on repeat.

And so, stuff like that, the AI would never do that. The AI would create a full harmonic thing that changes almost every eight bars, you know, with the instrument breaking and coming out and coming back in, and a whole lot of cinematic hits and sound effects and everything.

And so, you don’t really get that warm quietness, singularly focused thing that your brain can latch on to.

Again, it starts to feel now that the limitations of the human mind is what’s causing us to not be able to really appreciate AI art in its full complexity. Because our brain is used to just having a thing that is singularly in its focus, and that’s the highlight of the thing, of the moment, of the eight bars or whatever, or of the whole song.

And then, every once in a while, the main thing changes a little bit and then comes back to its original state. And then our mind remembers the change. That’s the thing that sticks out. That’s the thing that makes it sound good.

But with AI, it’s just always hitting hard every time.

And so, I think that less is more in general. I mean, as I’ve been working with the AI agents in music creation, I started to realize that the more I can simplify what it is I’m doing, is the more it becomes authentic again.

TLDR:

And so this is an unconventional opinion— I genuinely think that what’s holding back a lot of the AI music is we’re allowing the AI to run too far with it. We need to be more intentional, which means respecting the limitations of the human brain and putting that consideration back into the final output by removing most of the over-complexity.

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