This just made me think of a brilliant business venture….a McDonalds franchise that also serves Indian food and plays Bluegrass music……I’d call it Ronnie Mac Curry’s
The humor thread (formerly Sunday funny)
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Mashup of StarTrek, Banjo and AI.
AI can’t quite get the three finger style down,
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It may not have figured out how to visually represent 3 finger style, but I actually liked the banjo breaks in that second one. They were pretty tasty. I may try to steal some of those licks. 
Edit to say seeing Gamora holding a banjo was pretty dang hot. 
Man, I just can’t do it. I’m not dare gonna tell someone else not to prompt, watch, or enjoy this AI stuff…but it breaks something inside for me to watch it.
I’d rather watch 5th graders create this same concept with Party Plus costumes in real life. I grieve the day, which is probably already here, where I ingest AI-created content and believe it to be real.
I hope you don’t take any offense!
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Already happened to me, Ben (@BanjoBen). Told my daughters about a great new group, only to discover they were all fake. I’m officially a clueless old man. At least there’s nothing like the feeling of generating music from our own hands. I don’t think they can take that away.
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I agree with you on the AI content @BanjoBen . Over the past 10 months I have started writing songs. It’s pretty easy to tell from my songs that this is a new endeavor. Still with my goofy songs, I put a lot of time and thought to the rhymes and basic chord changes. I’ve been playing at the coffee shop open mic I play monthly (the open mic crowd just appreciates live music and supports folks like me that are trying to expand my musical expression).
Since I’ve started writing, I’ve seen several songs posted social media contacts done about my areas that I have lived. I know they used AI to create based on a few bits of information about the area. It sometimes is frustrating to see something like that while trying to write a song and spending a lot of time to fit words into a rhythm. Then see someone put some area information “produce” a full music video about something.
I know I shouldn’t worry about what others think, but I’ve been a techy for a long time (got a Commodore 64 back Ithink in 1982) so I’ve wondered if folks I grew up around wonder if I’m using AI technology to write my songs.
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Man that hits. Imagine being a student now. I would bet that if you wrote a decent paper, the assumption would that you used AI to do it. That’s pretty sad.
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