it wasn’t a “type a prompt and go” kind of situation where the machine pulled from vast collections of data from who knows where with loads of uncredited material. there was no artless, formless, unthinking LLM generating images and video clips that they then spliced together and hoped for the best.
the team behind this project, Meat Dept, also produced their VERY NOISE video. this particular music video was trained on their work and guided by the team. they were the artists the machine learned from, they were the people ultimately manipulating their own data.
i don’t see that as a concept anything to be against… it was, however, immediately abused and i understand why people are distrustful and enraged. i share that disgust, but idk i’m not seeing it here.
i think the anger is reasonable, tbh. i understand the reaction given the kind of world we live in. people are right to be skeptical and suspicious of a technology that immediately became exploited nefariously. …but yes, GenAI as used here is not the major issue.