On the parody album that's released on CDs (yes, CDs), with an insert that is actually the legal rulings that make parody legal. Might need a tiny font.
I strongly discourage any of you from searching "Barbie Girl Johnny Cash" on CZcams and watching the full version of one of the totally illegal bootleg copies of this song.
did you by any chance post the message, realise you made a mistake, copy and paste it into a new comment, fix it and forget to remove the "@ThereIRuinedIt 0 seconds ago" LMAO
At your discouragement, I did exactly that, but on DDG and found DOZENS of uploads across many platforms using your work on this one song alone. So you get hammered for a genuinely creative derivative work while loads of drones redistribute it for their own clout and profit. Seems fair. 🙄
To be fair, I believe AI absolutely needs guardrails, and not everything in this hearing was political theater. But to me, there’s a good parallel: Photoshop. The Onion can create a 100% realistic photo of Johnny Cash wearing a pink tutu and nobody takes issue because it’s parody…even if the Cash Estate hates the photo. Photoshop, like AI, can be used to mislead people but we accept that. This is the audio equivalent. We already have laws about identity theft, rights of publicity for celebrities, etc. We may need some new ones. But not at the expense of my God-given right to make Hank Williams sing "Straight Outta Compton." Of course, that's what a robot like me would want you to think.
Bruh, I'm gonna tell you something If your song was in a congress, now you know you are good and unique in your content, expanding creativity boundaries.
It's also not particularly difficult to tell that something is AI when looking closely, at least not for now. The only people who seem flabbergasted at the concept are tech-illiterate boomers on facebook smashing like on obvious AI-generated images. All AI means is that people, particularly those in positions of authority are going to have to be more *gasp!* discerning.
They're damned good! I wonder how critical to the process they are in order to get results that sound right. If one sang like Boomhauer for a Hank Williams song and used to software to convert it to Hank, would it sound totally wrong or would the Boomhauerness get subtracted somehow?
Me: What's wrong with robot porn? Let C3PO and R2-D2 get it on. They aren't hurting anyone. They're an old married couple. R2-D2 puts his data stick into C3PO's expansion port. So what?
Project 2025 straight up wants to ban porn and criminalize it, so I believe it. Dunno what's wrong with that side of the government and their 'small government' ideas.
I'm one of those people who had no idea you were actually singing all these beforehand. Some of your impressions on their own are nearly spot-on right out of the gate.
It's one of the reasons the AI sounds so impressive. It only has to handle the last three inches of the journey. Don't get me wrong, it's capable technology, but it's still going to deliver best results when it doesn't have to wrestle with uncooperative source material.
It's seriously impressive. The voice alone is obviously not perfect - you can listen to any of his versions and know instantly that they're not the real thing. But he gets the intonations, cadence, tone near-perfect. It's incredible to know that the post-processing is just like the last 10-20% of the actual transformation.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive I figured he was just using the original artists' songs as the training material for pitch, inflection, tempo, etc. Then typing the words so the AI would apply different lyrics to the same underlying tune. (Obviously with a lot of fiddling beyond that to get everything just right, but that's what I thought the overall process was.)
@@sntslilhlpr6601 that’s what makes this so tough. If you were a smart and heart-in-the-right-place guy trying to make your country a bit better and actively participate in the democratic process instead of just voting… how long would you keep sane before you quit with morons like those? 😅 I’m not surprised things are the way they are.
This video should actually set any musician at ease because it showed that anybody certainly could not make these. You're a very good singer, the voice changing looks difficult from a technological standpoint, you're creative with your choice of lyrics and which instrumentals to put them to. You're also well within fair use because it is clearly parody. This is a skill all in itself that honestly looks harder than a lot of traditional ways of creating music. I didnt even know you sang them first. I admire the skill you have in creating these.
The National Archives records and preserves all comments made in Congress for history. Your song now has a govt stamp and will be preserved forever. Congrats
I think the worry comes from the fact that it's incredibly easy to imitate people if you want to, like the high school/college(?) administrator that was caught making racist, and antisemitic remarks, and investigated, only for it to be revealed that it was a student that was pissed off. They just chose Johnny Cash because most people there would know his music, and doubt that he'd sing the Barbie song.
@@therobustempyrean1436 All of this AI stuff only highlights what was obvious to rational people a long time ago, which is that imitation is not the problem, the insanely sensitive cancellation culture is the problem. Someone making a ""hurtful comment"" shouldn't be grounds to ruin their life, not now and not ever. People should be entitled to their own opinions, and if others don't like them, well, tough luck! Instead, while we pretend to still have free speech we have allowed the marxist cretins to weaponize language in every dimension such that people must tiptoe around saying the wrong thing at any moment, and never express their real views outside of trusted company.
You're missing the big picture. It's showing how easily you can get anyone's voice to say whatever you want. Entertainment is one thing, but used as a political weapon can have some serious consequences.
@@BroadFieldGaming No no, it'll be something traffic/vehicle related, cause that's what 99% of captcha makes you do. Fun fact; the reason for that is because the data from said captcha solves is actually collected and used to enhance/train self-driving algorithms....
Anyone around here plays Detroit: Become Human, or even is being a fan of Ex_Machina? As far as I can remember, Carlo Collodi wrote the first AI story with Pinocchio.
hey buddy, this is a couple seconds of an entire meeting. they showed other examples of things, all of which use varying amounts of AI technology to be created. so its all relevant.
i have a feeling Gaetz doesnt care about the subject and was just chosen to do a job. Turns out winging it makes one look foolish to slightly informed people.
Reminder here that the single digit approval rating is for everyone ELSE's congressman. People tend to like their own congressman a lot, but disapprove of Congress as a whole.
@@h3lblad3Yep. 98% reelection rate. They like “their” guy because he smiled and shook their hand once at a BBQ fundraiser, so they think he’s really genuine and sincere. The vast majority of people are far too naïve and shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
@@h3lblad3eh, it can depend. I rather loathe my congressmen as they consistently vote against my interests. Granted, I'm a radical person who likes things such as educators getting fair wages, kids not getting shot, and healthcare being a human right, so of course in a Red state I'm considered clinically insane.
You're going far too easy on them. They are willfully ignorant and purposefully misrepresenting the truth. They will say whatever they need to to appeal to their base, truth be damned.
I mean, i'd expect them to do research considering its part of there job to be informed on the laws there ruling on, but then again im not a politician so what do I know.
Copyright law gets muddy when non-human work is involved. A camera owns no rights to its photos. A cover band can record an original album in the style of another band and hold a new, non-derivative copyright. Asking a machine to do the same was an unthinkable scenario when the laws were written, but here we are now with things like Udio. I can forgive legislators being a few months behind on the implications of the latest tech when "series of tubes" doesn't feel like that distant of a memory. Still, that was a total fail with using an obvious parody to make the point. Everyone in the room should have understood that. Yeesh.
Those impressions are low-key already really good. You can tell all the AI is doing the last 10% to make it sound real. The rest is all 100% human impressionist
"Your honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits, waiting! You wanted a chance to make law. Here it is. Make it a good one."
Thanks for sharing your "befores." I think a lot of people - like me - were assuming that these were made by prompts, and it's pretty terrifying how good they are. Make a lot more sense knowing that a talented person worked so hard on them.
I've messed around with AI image generation to try and make character art of my RPG characters. I walked into it thinking 'this will be easy, I just have to tell it what to make, and it'll make it and I can finally just show people what I'm picturing rather than have to explain it over and over to people who don't care and aren't listening!' Cut to hours later, I'm frustrated, losing my mind, and realizing that surprise! This is a skill. It has to be learned. And it's hard. I STILL haven't managed to convince it that my horse archer with a winged cat as a pet doesn't need cat ears herself, and also the cat's wings should not be on its butt and oh yeah THAT'S NOT HOW BOWS WORK. I've since run into a few people also doing character art who are good at it, and just talking to them really drives home how much a skill interacting with the AI to get what you're after is. Every time I hear people freaking out about people putting artists out of work by casually conjuring perfect AI image generation, I try to get them to try and do it themselves and see how easy it is. A lot of them don't even know how to get started, like how to find one of the art generation sites, and somehow this doesn't clue them in that it's not like they're picturing it to be. That having been said, a lot of people are definitely using it for porn.
@@purplecat4977👏 Preach. More complex ideas are not "Click✨Done!" Sometimes it takes a couple of hours and then need to take a break to rethink the strategy and toolchain and return the next day to complete a picture and you still end up with 80-90% of what you wanted it to look like.
Most good AI work you see has a human pilot doing hours of work behind the scenes; correcting mistakes afterwards, bashing together multiple generations, and curating from a pile of generations. Most AI software, as it improved, also added human guidance options like in-painting. I know people have a lot of strong feelings about AI. But it isn't always black and white prompt use, there is human guided tool use to be found with it.
@@IIIlIIIIlIIIII As someone that has studied this extensively, I see the mistake you've made. Yes, a legal personality for the convenience of law suits etc is necessary. But that should not extend to giving corporations the same constitutional rights as a person, as in the decision of Citizens United. The OP comment was gold.
My dude, I know from the video that somebody already said this b4, but _daaaaayum!_ Your real-life, raw vocal impressions of all those different artists are so good! Your signing and impression abilities + ur ability to utilize various different technologies to make these musical mashups and parodies is a match made in heaven! You’re too talented for us! We don’t deserve this! Have mercy on us! 😭🙌 In all seriousness, we’re glad ur here on this platform. Thank you! ✊💙
Came here to look for or leave this remark as well. The reason these AI impressions are so good is solely because your raw vocals get them 85% of the way there!
@@LaughingOwl10 Thats sort of the state of AI right now. If you know how to get 85% of how to get to where you want to be, AI can bridge the gap, and there is a whole lot less room for anomalies. People can crank out artwork that is stunning with multiple layers of AI and human skill that you would have no clue was AI assisted, but all anyone talks about is the fire by prompt bottom feeder garbage. Same with ChatGPT. Try to get it to write you a whole story or code an whole program, and it will fail, but if you know how to write or code, it can become a resource to speed up your creative process.
The fact that it was actually you performing the Boomhauer rap god and then deep faking your voice just tickles my heart to no extent. I have so much respect for you as an artist, and you should go on tour.
From the looks of this, there is some processing involved which takes long enough that he couldn't deep fake in real time. So going on tour would be pointless.
It's the same representative who corrected "17 year old girl" to "17 year old WOMAN" when interviewed about allegations of trafficking minors with a friendly interviewer
The BTS makes these even MORE impressive! Even before the voice alterations, you do a phenomenal job of capturing the vocal style of each. I had assumed before that it was all the AI and you were just singing in your own normal voice
That did take quite a talent. This was no text-and-notes-to-singing operation. It was a human imitation of the style with sound post processing to imitate the tone of the target singer to be imitated. Attitudes have changed over the years; there was a time when a singer whose tone was very similar to Bing Crosby's complained he could not get engagements because Bing would sue the people who used him. Bing eventually took pity on the singer and toured with his vocal double. I believe modern copyright law does not subject to copyright the original imitation of a sound.
You're one of the only A.I. creator I have been exposed to that I feel uses the tech as a tool in a novel and artistic way. The fact that you're also helping expose the danger of unregulated A.I. systems is just icing on the cake.
@@resplendentpeace No, you’re right. I wonder if he was trying to say “impose restrictions on government regulating the free speech of robots as is already on the regulation of citizens’ free speech. “. It’s Gaetz--who knows.
Boomhauer Rap God is such a stroke of genius. The fact that you yourself vocalize these, instead of just using text-to-speech, really brings home that this is art. Please, keep it going.
Love that they are making this the issue rather than targeting Disney and Warner and other actual big corporations that are blatantly using AI rather than paying creators.
pretty sure that hasn't been the case at all as of yet, but you can bet that the second it does become a problem, a republican will be fighting for it to stop
@@noahsylvester1754 It has been the case, there's multiple examples of larger corporations training their AI without paying those whose works their training from and Republicans have been quiet about it.
I've adored your content for years and been citing you _repeatedly_ as an example of how this technology can be used. Both as an example in itself, but also an example of how it's better as a brace than a crutch, supplementing the existing talent and effort. It is, on the whole, no more dangerous or extreme than Autotune is. Keep doing what you do, and I'll keep listening to it. You're an amazing vocal imitator and the law is firmly on your side in this one.
Some day, Gaetz is going to do that will require an underpaid FBI agent to search his computer. I feel sorry for that poor individual and what they are going to see.
@@My-cat-is-staring-at-you you must not know about the FBIs collection of...questionable files. What's that old saying? To catch a fish you have to think like a fish?
Congress is functionally broken as an institution, and has been for decades. It's the root of all the political problems the US is facing right now. Literally all they can do is go for soundbites, because nothing else is getting done. They can barely pass a budget, their *only* constitutionally mandated task.
That's pretty much the entirety of GOP lawmakers. They are always the first ones to go for the "think of the children" argument, which means they are trying to push something that will fuck everyone except themselves over. And they are the ones more likely to "think of the children" and end up on lists. Gaetz is probably one of them.
They are actually giving you a huge compliment. They are saying you are so good that you have to be a robot and that you could easily fool people. Kudos
"It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that." - Mark Twain
This isnt parody. Its not somebody singing and playing LIKE johnny cash. Its somebody using samples from Johnny Cash collected by an AI to make the product. It isnt original. Make your own character. Dont steal other peoples likeness just to put words in their mouth and claim you created something. You didnt. Its not creation. Its immitation.
that's what government wants. when people can't tell what is real they will be the solution and their solution is more restrictions to our freedom and ID's
@@raphaelvermin you're wrong on so many levels, it's not like "all art is imitation" is the most famous quote about the creative process, dating back from the concept of mimesis from Seneca... We can tell you're not a creative, but you dont have to prove to the whole planet how uninformed you are about the creative process, and how pitifully empty you are. This dude can sing an almost perfect imitation before he even uses AI, masters the production and sound design, and yet you're treating it like some low effort clickbait. You're probably listening to vain chart artists that dont compose anything, and are devoid of any talent, yet can't possibly understand how much work these hilarioud tracks represent. Grow a spine dude, you're just wasting air.
With this month alone featuring stuff like an Assassination Attempt and Y2K 24 years late, I think we are truly living in some sort of fictional world, a “Barbie world” perhaps.
The most frustrating part for me is that AI voice technology has the potential to make real people's lives better, but it's glossed over by scaremongers. If I lose my voice, say in an accident or from cancer, we now have the technology to recreate *my* voice so I can still speak for myself as myself. That's insane, that's life changing. Yet here they are arguing about robots making p**n. Anyways, love your work man. It brightens my day.
most of the benefits are going to go to people monetizing voices they have no right too. just like how ai art steals human visual art to create minor copies with no reimbursement or credit given to real creators. i don't think porn and whatever is the issue but a new wave of automating creative human labor
@@jakkaljakobie8774 we agree there, but politicians are too concerned with winning their partisan games rather than doing anything sensible whatsoever. they would block legislation making drinking water legal (if it weren't already the case) just because the other side wanted it too. the stupid scare tactic strategy is the only viable one because it gives them a political excuse to support something obvious; without a political cover, they wouldn't publicly support breathing air or the value of being happy
To be fair revenge porn is already pretty fucking terrifying as it is. If AI allows those kinds of people to go one step further, the lives of victims who already suffer a lot as it is just gets worse and the damage it can create in terms of fraud (particularly identity fraud) is insane, even like the voice of a kid on the telephone asking for help or replicating the voice of people to incriminate them. Everyone needs to take all the ways it already is (and will be) exploited seriously and actually create laws to protect victims and proper penalties and institutions to carry them out. The way these AI are trained on stolen data and that people should be able to decide (and abstain) from having their voice/face and art used is also important and should be addressed both what has already been done and what should and shouldn't be fair use going forward. It's just that I wouldn't trust any politician anywhere to do it, those people have no shame and no moral compass.
For the breakdown, followed by the breakdown, and with the final reveal I finally subbed. No longer lackadaisically coming across these in my timeline. I want first dibs now.
What? It seems silly, but if they're going to try to pass law regarding AI, they do need examples and evidence of what they're dealing with. If they're talking on music, individual voice rights, etc., this would be case relevant. ETA: Apologies, I hadn't finished the video. Matt Gaetz is a clown. Oh, and a sex trafficker, can't forget that. ETA again: Although, to my first statement the point still stands to a degree.
Honestly I'm fine with higher government officials dealing with this in order to tell YT and recording studios to stfu with regard to parody. It's gotta go somewhere, gotta end up somewhere in order to get a ruling. "Venmo-teens-for-sex" Gaetz should have been sent to Florence ADX long ago, so disregard what that chomo says, though.
I agree that bringing up this channel as an example is silly, but I’m assuming the point was to talk about ai, which does need to be discussed and regulated, not to “go after comedy”
@@desertdesk it's an issue yes, but I think cracking down on all ways of using AI will harm freedom of expression, as it just presumes that if AI is involved, then human artistry isn't. This is parody, but because AI was used for part of it, it's suddenly not a funny impersonation but "a robot tarnishing a celebrity's image".
I don’t see why not, Any soundbite from Congress and The Senate would be considered public domain (note: Do seek CSPAN’s permission before posting said AI work containing Congress to CY🍑😉)
I hate it when people who don't (most of the time) know shit about technologies just assume the thing does itself, while in reality we have to do a lot of work to do it. And then they make the rules based on that assumption.
I still see older people losing there shit when they see a smart speaker and wondering why anyone would "allow google/amazon/the government etc." to listen to private convos.... This is while they have a smart phone within six inches from them 24/7 🙃.. It's wild how ignorant most people are so im not surprised about this at all sadly.
I mean the job of the engineer is to optimize, and we can optimize in quality, cost, and effort required by the user. We'll eventually optimize the effort required until it's really as simple as they think it is. So in the long term they're not wrong.
except in this case with AI the end point is literally that the AI will do pretty much everything. You will just say "make johnny cash sing barbie girl", and the ai will do everything. Were not there yet, but thats where the logical conclusion is. Law makers often have to think about the near future of things and how laws need to be written so that the laws dont become obsolete faster than they can be decided on. Imagine if 5 years after the car was invented they invented the flying car. Laws around driving cars would be completely meaningless once the cars fly. then imagine 5 years after that they can go the speed of sound and are driven by themselves. Thats comparable to the rate of development of Ai technology. No country can rewrite its laws every couple of years.
Yeah. You're both right, but first of all it would still be acceptable and it would still be a parody, second of all, now it's not the case and we should treat creators with respect
I think the lawyer's argument would be that no person made this, that an AI did, and that since AI outputs aren't copyrightable that he doesn't need anyone's permission to play it. Of course he'd be wrong because as we saw in the video most of the actual work is done by a person.
Everytime there is a new revolutionary technology some people start screaming that the sky is falling. A.I is just a tool, it can be used for good and bad purposes, but ultimately it's there to compliment human talent, not replace it. In a few years A.I will be taken for granted by almost everyone just like all the other great technological breakthroughs throughout history.
sure, and like with every technological revolution there needs to be new laws created to ensure people don't abuse them. before cars existed there was no laws about cars. people had to get together and decide what the speed limit should be, what the signs look like. what vehicles are considered road safe became an issue as people die too much in accidents, so the laws steadily change over time as well... There is going to have to be laws created around the development of the tool that is AI.
This is fine usage. The problem is the AI Bros on twitter who think typing a prompt somehow equates to or is more difficult than learning and becoming skilled at something
Expecting Gaetz to be knowledgeable or engage any topic in good faith is like expecting The Easter Bunny to leave money under your (lumpy) pillow on Christmas Eve.
@@LemmonDP That is the way the game's played. Except these days some types aren't even bothering with the closet and just throwing their skeletons out there, daring people to see them.
We live in the worst timeline when the *United States Congress* is playing a video of a Robot Johnny Cash singing "Barbie Girl" discussing whether or not it's legal.
I'm actually really glad you showed your process. As someone who has VERY strong opinions on AI generated content and AI voice and face replacement (I'm primarily concerned with it's impact on film and TV and anything that replaces human beings in an artist space is pretty much never okay with me), I'm really glad to know you actually record it and just modify it, instead of generating it wholesale. It also explains why is always sounds so good, 100% AI recreation isn't usually so polished and perfect 😅 Rock on, my friend!
Dude, I already enjoyed your videos, but now I fucking love your videos. I was entirely ignorant of all the work and talent behind the clever and hilarious choices. Thanks for making this video.
I feel like "I'm So Good Congress Thinks I'm a Robot" should be something you can put on a resume.
Or a T-Shirt
On the parody album that's released on CDs (yes, CDs), with an insert that is actually the legal rulings that make parody legal.
Might need a tiny font.
By Fall Out Boy
@@SomeOfTheJuiceBy Panic! At The Disco
"Ive made song parodies that have been played at congress hearings"
I strongly discourage any of you from searching "Barbie Girl Johnny Cash" on CZcams and watching the full version of one of the totally illegal bootleg copies of this song.
did you by any chance post the message, realise you made a mistake, copy and paste it into a new comment, fix it and forget to remove the "@ThereIRuinedIt 0 seconds ago" LMAO
I may or may not have downloaded the vid b4 it was deleted as an mp3 file bc its funny
At your discouragement, I did exactly that, but on DDG and found DOZENS of uploads across many platforms using your work on this one song alone. So you get hammered for a genuinely creative derivative work while loads of drones redistribute it for their own clout and profit. Seems fair. 🙄
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@@ThereIRuinedIt hahah all good man
To be fair, I believe AI absolutely needs guardrails, and not everything in this hearing was political theater. But to me, there’s a good parallel: Photoshop. The Onion can create a 100% realistic photo of Johnny Cash wearing a pink tutu and nobody takes issue because it’s parody…even if the Cash Estate hates the photo. Photoshop, like AI, can be used to mislead people but we accept that. This is the audio equivalent. We already have laws about identity theft, rights of publicity for celebrities, etc. We may need some new ones. But not at the expense of my God-given right to make Hank Williams sing "Straight Outta Compton." Of course, that's what a robot like me would want you to think.
This robot's got some freedom blood in him
Bruh, I'm gonna tell you something
If your song was in a congress, now you know you are good and unique in your content, expanding creativity boundaries.
We know your responsible man. Congratulations on getting their attention 😂
It's also not particularly difficult to tell that something is AI when looking closely, at least not for now. The only people who seem flabbergasted at the concept are tech-illiterate boomers on facebook smashing like on obvious AI-generated images. All AI means is that people, particularly those in positions of authority are going to have to be more *gasp!* discerning.
The state does you the honor of comparing your skill to the spooky computer A.I.
I like how, directly after the initial play through, half of the people in the back look like they’re trying not to laugh.
Even ms. Wilson is having a hard time not to snicker it seems
Those voice impressions for each artist before the A.I. cloning are actually incredible.
I wonder how much postprocessing went into that to make it already sound so similar to the real artists.
They're damned good! I wonder how critical to the process they are in order to get results that sound right. If one sang like Boomhauer for a Hank Williams song and used to software to convert it to Hank, would it sound totally wrong or would the Boomhauerness get subtracted somehow?
Without the AI, he could still make great vids. He is an artist of a very high caliber.
@@hcdodge4991 "Boomhauerness"?
Yep, dudes got skills
Not Johnny Cash: “I’m a Barbie girl”
Actual US Congress: “we have to stop robots from making porn”
Me: What's wrong with robot porn? Let C3PO and R2-D2 get it on. They aren't hurting anyone. They're an old married couple. R2-D2 puts his data stick into C3PO's expansion port. So what?
🧽 + ⭐️ = 🐚
@@Lostmymind1 exactly
Project 2025 straight up wants to ban porn and criminalize it, so I believe it. Dunno what's wrong with that side of the government and their 'small government' ideas.
PornHub AI Enthusiast: "we should use AI to put politicians into porn."
“Congress plays a real fake Johnny Cash cover of Barbie girl in the Folsom Blues style”
is not a sentence I thought I’d write today.
Fr
Or ever.
did not have this on my 2024 BINGO Card.
Did you write it or chat gpt
@@Travio247 what’s chat gpt?
You're already a really good impressionist. The modulation just gets you the last 30% of the way there
I'm one of those people who had no idea you were actually singing all these beforehand. Some of your impressions on their own are nearly spot-on right out of the gate.
Same
It's one of the reasons the AI sounds so impressive. It only has to handle the last three inches of the journey.
Don't get me wrong, it's capable technology, but it's still going to deliver best results when it doesn't have to wrestle with uncooperative source material.
It's seriously impressive. The voice alone is obviously not perfect - you can listen to any of his versions and know instantly that they're not the real thing. But he gets the intonations, cadence, tone near-perfect. It's incredible to know that the post-processing is just like the last 10-20% of the actual transformation.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive I figured he was just using the original artists' songs as the training material for pitch, inflection, tempo, etc. Then typing the words so the AI would apply different lyrics to the same underlying tune. (Obviously with a lot of fiddling beyond that to get everything just right, but that's what I thought the overall process was.)
I second this. I legit didn't tweak to this until AFTER Elvis.
"Tickle my bum with a mannequin thumb on a bongo drum in California" might be the best line ever written in the industry.
He's not in the industry so that's impossible.
@@ryanbach2748 wow you seem like a fun guy 😂
As a songwriter, I aspire to such genius
@CaesarTheMighty for quoting someone else? makes no sense
To reiterate: California.
Those politicians gave me the "Really? THAT'S what you got out of that???" feeling.
Matt Gaetz is a master in the art of missing the point to ask a stupid loaded question.
Now repeat that thought for the past 20 years and you have my frustration with the system.
@@Lightscribe225 Me too, but there's always a few that stand out as actually trying and then a few that are completely stupid like this guy.
@@sntslilhlpr6601 that’s what makes this so tough. If you were a smart and heart-in-the-right-place guy trying to make your country a bit better and actively participate in the democratic process instead of just voting… how long would you keep sane before you quit with morons like those? 😅
I’m not surprised things are the way they are.
They are there to crystalize the legitimate claims of the people into illegitimate political folklores in orde to : divide and conquer.
0:05 My friend Johnny Cash, yeah okay, your "friend"
The funnier part is him saying that he saw Johnny Cash at concert, like that give him any authority to speak on it.
I def thought he meant he attended a There I ruined it concert 😅
Boomhauer doing "Rap God" is still one of the greatest achievements of all time.
I dare anybody to contradict me.
Coming at you like a dang ol' tornado
I also really love the hallelujah baby got back
You can't argue with the truth and win.
Ironically my favourite ive ever seen from this channel is boomhauer rapping a verse in levitating by dua lipa, that shit is fire 🔥
The more recent Kermit doing Gin and Juice is tops for me.
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Don't worry. Their lack of knowing what they are talking about won't prevent them from making a bad decision.
This may be the silver lining of a time
Looking at you ATF, NSA, DOT, and every other three letter agency.
Especially if campaign contributions are involved by the "injured parties".
In the future, when alien archaeologists write a textbook about America, what you just said is going to be the title of the chapter on Congress
For Gaetz? Hey, it won't be the first one to reach an ethics committee, if y'know what I'm saying.
That crowd sucks that song was awesome
exactly
Our rulers have no sense of humor.
That crowd had Matt Gaetz in it, so naturally.
Even Mr. Cash said it was fantastic.
Exactly. The only music Matt Gaetz likes is the sound of coke straws and kiddie porn.
This video should actually set any musician at ease because it showed that anybody certainly could not make these. You're a very good singer, the voice changing looks difficult from a technological standpoint, you're creative with your choice of lyrics and which instrumentals to put them to. You're also well within fair use because it is clearly parody.
This is a skill all in itself that honestly looks harder than a lot of traditional ways of creating music. I didnt even know you sang them first. I admire the skill you have in creating these.
The National Archives records and preserves all comments made in Congress for history. Your song now has a govt stamp and will be preserved forever. Congrats
This man is a god damn American treasure, and I salute you. 🫡
@@spookymacchiato5503
This robot you mean 😂
@@Oniphire Through the robot he made and operated....
...joining the illustrious George Carlin and the Seven Words You Can't Say on TV!
I mean the dead give away is clearly in the beginning we hear, Hello, Im not Johnny Cash". So no I would not believe thats was Johnny Cash.
That was just Johnny Cash not wanting to take credit for performing the song before its existence. It's not his proudest moment.
I think the worry comes from the fact that it's incredibly easy to imitate people if you want to, like the high school/college(?) administrator that was caught making racist, and antisemitic remarks, and investigated, only for it to be revealed that it was a student that was pissed off. They just chose Johnny Cash because most people there would know his music, and doubt that he'd sing the Barbie song.
@@therobustempyrean1436 I feel like one of the points was it's actually not that easy, nor free.
He sang an entire song about a 3 way brain swap between him, a chicken, and a bank robber. It would hardly be the most ridiculous thing he’s done.
@@therobustempyrean1436 All of this AI stuff only highlights what was obvious to rational people a long time ago, which is that imitation is not the problem, the insanely sensitive cancellation culture is the problem. Someone making a ""hurtful comment"" shouldn't be grounds to ruin their life, not now and not ever. People should be entitled to their own opinions, and if others don't like them, well, tough luck! Instead, while we pretend to still have free speech we have allowed the marxist cretins to weaponize language in every dimension such that people must tiptoe around saying the wrong thing at any moment, and never express their real views outside of trusted company.
An absolute banger of a Resume piece.
“Song featured in a Congressional hearing.”
"Used to highlight the natural sounding voices indistinguishable from the original singers" 😂
I would highlight that on a resume, and wear that like a badge of honor
You opened with “Hello, I’m not Johnny Cash”. No reasonable person would still think that was Johnny Cash
You're missing the big picture. It's showing how easily you can get anyone's voice to say whatever you want. Entertainment is one thing, but used as a political weapon can have some serious consequences.
@@The-Gipper it’s a good thing that Johnny Cash parody wasn’t intended for political purposes, then
@aquabreeze7612 Meanwhile you completely failed to look at the bigger picture involved
The argument wasn't wether it was Johnny Cash or not though so I really don't understand why you said that or why you got up votes.
@@ItsConnerKing damn bro that's crazy I don't remember asking
“I am not a robot” is exactly the kind of thing a robot would say to make us think they’re human. We’re not fooled!
He should prove it by clicking a captcha live.
Yeah, click only the pictures that has cows in it.
@@BroadFieldGaming No no, it'll be something traffic/vehicle related, cause that's what 99% of captcha makes you do.
Fun fact; the reason for that is because the data from said captcha solves is actually collected and used to enhance/train self-driving algorithms....
"How do you prove you are you [and not an AI]?" -Will Caster, possibly
Anyone around here plays Detroit: Become Human, or even is being a fan of Ex_Machina?
As far as I can remember, Carlo Collodi wrote the first AI story with Pinocchio.
The Sinatra “Get Low” is genuinely beautiful
need that in my play list
i scrolled down to type this
Ikrr
The fact that they used your artistic and mostly human-involved use of AI to try to prove their point is hilarious
hey buddy, this is a couple seconds of an entire meeting. they showed other examples of things, all of which use varying amounts of AI technology to be created. so its all relevant.
i have a feeling Gaetz doesnt care about the subject and was just chosen to do a job.
Turns out winging it makes one look foolish to slightly informed people.
If you squeeze you eyes and look at your phone with a small angle , at 0:44 you can see a cybertruck
True!
I thought it was a cybertruck on the display to the left but it was just the table
The single digit approval rating for Congress now seems awfully generous.
Reminder here that the single digit approval rating is for everyone ELSE's congressman. People tend to like their own congressman a lot, but disapprove of Congress as a whole.
I got double middle digits for Gaetz right here! 🤣
@@h3lblad3Yep. 98% reelection rate. They like “their” guy because he smiled and shook their hand once at a BBQ fundraiser, so they think he’s really genuine and sincere. The vast majority of people are far too naïve and shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Google didn't get rid of the dislikes button to protect Joe Rogan or other popular people.
@@h3lblad3eh, it can depend. I rather loathe my congressmen as they consistently vote against my interests. Granted, I'm a radical person who likes things such as educators getting fair wages, kids not getting shot, and healthcare being a human right, so of course in a Red state I'm considered clinically insane.
I've been singing Johnny Cash for 30 years, and always open with "hello, I'm not Johnny Cash".
Great remix! Hilarious!
bro you can't expect Congress to actually do research or be informed
You're going far too easy on them. They are willfully ignorant and purposefully misrepresenting the truth. They will say whatever they need to to appeal to their base, truth be damned.
I mean, i'd expect them to do research considering its part of there job to be informed on the laws there ruling on, but then again im not a politician so what do I know.
Copyright law gets muddy when non-human work is involved. A camera owns no rights to its photos. A cover band can record an original album in the style of another band and hold a new, non-derivative copyright. Asking a machine to do the same was an unthinkable scenario when the laws were written, but here we are now with things like Udio.
I can forgive legislators being a few months behind on the implications of the latest tech when "series of tubes" doesn't feel like that distant of a memory.
Still, that was a total fail with using an obvious parody to make the point. Everyone in the room should have understood that. Yeesh.
@@emperorchopchop7726 I totally agree with you, was joking because I expect very little from Congress
@@oneofmanyalexs very much so agree, if they were even vaguely proficient at their jobs
Those impressions are low-key already really good. You can tell all the AI is doing the last 10% to make it sound real. The rest is all 100% human impressionist
"Your honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits, waiting! You wanted a chance to make law. Here it is. Make it a good one."
Measure of a Music Man.
@@Billkwando4/4 measure, lol
When you haven't done anything useful in congress so far and have an assignment due the next day
No no, he has someone coming in to check his work for the past month, he has to get something in before they show up.
so, all of congress?
Lmao
Poor Matt Gaetz was up late texting teens. 😢
All he had to do was pick any of the ai content farms and he could've probably made the point
Thanks for sharing your "befores." I think a lot of people - like me - were assuming that these were made by prompts, and it's pretty terrifying how good they are. Make a lot more sense knowing that a talented person worked so hard on them.
I've messed around with AI image generation to try and make character art of my RPG characters. I walked into it thinking 'this will be easy, I just have to tell it what to make, and it'll make it and I can finally just show people what I'm picturing rather than have to explain it over and over to people who don't care and aren't listening!' Cut to hours later, I'm frustrated, losing my mind, and realizing that surprise! This is a skill. It has to be learned. And it's hard. I STILL haven't managed to convince it that my horse archer with a winged cat as a pet doesn't need cat ears herself, and also the cat's wings should not be on its butt and oh yeah THAT'S NOT HOW BOWS WORK. I've since run into a few people also doing character art who are good at it, and just talking to them really drives home how much a skill interacting with the AI to get what you're after is.
Every time I hear people freaking out about people putting artists out of work by casually conjuring perfect AI image generation, I try to get them to try and do it themselves and see how easy it is. A lot of them don't even know how to get started, like how to find one of the art generation sites, and somehow this doesn't clue them in that it's not like they're picturing it to be.
That having been said, a lot of people are definitely using it for porn.
@@purplecat4977👏 Preach. More complex ideas are not "Click✨Done!" Sometimes it takes a couple of hours and then need to take a break to rethink the strategy and toolchain and return the next day to complete a picture and you still end up with 80-90% of what you wanted it to look like.
Most good AI work you see has a human pilot doing hours of work behind the scenes; correcting mistakes afterwards, bashing together multiple generations, and curating from a pile of generations. Most AI software, as it improved, also added human guidance options like in-painting. I know people have a lot of strong feelings about AI. But it isn't always black and white prompt use, there is human guided tool use to be found with it.
I never would have expected you to have such a nice voice.
I didn't realize I needed a Johnny Cash cover of Barbie Girl.
Congress finally has had a positive impact on my life.
No they are trying to stop these songs
@@MrDsturman A guy that's grooming minors is deliberatly missing the point to ask a stupid loaded question, i dont think that's the same thing.
@@sirzebra I’m just saying that congress isn’t a positive in this story
You don't, because barbie girl in style of Sabaton exists.
Dude, this is the ultimate "Copyright struck so it is canon" moment.
Getting that peek into how you create your work makes it even more enjoyable. Thank you for all of your human-driven, gifted, hard work.
“Naturally, Gaetz brings porn into this” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Matt Gaetz wants to make sure that we're not exposing all these kids to porn so that they're not too busy to be exposed in his porn.
Whatevet Matt wants, Matt Gaetz.
@@Kennypowers51Especially if it's underage.
Let's be real dude, that's 97% of what is driving AI right now. Lol.
That's what most of the deep fakes are used for.
Robots shouldn’t be subject to free speech but corporations are people.
Underrated comment
If PizzaGaetz were capable of making a non-hypocritical statement, he would have done it by now.
Do you think we shouldn't be able to sue corporations?
@@IIIlIIIIlIIIII As someone that has studied this extensively, I see the mistake you've made. Yes, a legal personality for the convenience of law suits etc is necessary. But that should not extend to giving corporations the same constitutional rights as a person, as in the decision of Citizens United.
The OP comment was gold.
@@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 ok pizzagaetz is pretty funny ngl
My dude, I know from the video that somebody already said this b4, but _daaaaayum!_ Your real-life, raw vocal impressions of all those different artists are so good! Your signing and impression abilities + ur ability to utilize various different technologies to make these musical mashups and parodies is a match made in heaven! You’re too talented for us! We don’t deserve this! Have mercy on us! 😭🙌
In all seriousness, we’re glad ur here on this platform. Thank you! ✊💙
🙏
Came here to look for or leave this remark as well. The reason these AI impressions are so good is solely because your raw vocals get them 85% of the way there!
@@DantalionNl It's funny, because now I'm more impressed by ThereIRuinedIt and less impressed by AI.
@@LaughingOwl10 Thats sort of the state of AI right now. If you know how to get 85% of how to get to where you want to be, AI can bridge the gap, and there is a whole lot less room for anomalies. People can crank out artwork that is stunning with multiple layers of AI and human skill that you would have no clue was AI assisted, but all anyone talks about is the fire by prompt bottom feeder garbage. Same with ChatGPT. Try to get it to write you a whole story or code an whole program, and it will fail, but if you know how to write or code, it can become a resource to speed up your creative process.
The fact that it was actually you performing the Boomhauer rap god and then deep faking your voice just tickles my heart to no extent. I have so much respect for you as an artist, and you should go on tour.
From the looks of this, there is some processing involved which takes long enough that he couldn't deep fake in real time. So going on tour would be pointless.
Ikr Respect 🫡 to you Mr.@ThereIRuinedIt
"If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?"
Iswydt 🤭 well played sir, well played.
“Con… ohhh, I see what you did there. I’m moving your voting district lines.”
Regress
Representative Beavis, please take a seat.
More like Representative Butthead, MTG would be Representative Beavis
@@sawtooth808This is an insult to Beavis and Butthead.
It's the same representative who corrected "17 year old girl" to "17 year old WOMAN" when interviewed about allegations of trafficking minors with a friendly interviewer
"I am not a robot" Yeah right, that's exactly what a robot would say.
Let's ask him to point out traffic lights!
I concur fellow human
Except robots can't yodel! Yodeling is established proof of humanity. QED
R2D2 noises…
@KenLieck wait a second, I can't yodel... 😱
The BTS makes these even MORE impressive! Even before the voice alterations, you do a phenomenal job of capturing the vocal style of each. I had assumed before that it was all the AI and you were just singing in your own normal voice
That did take quite a talent. This was no text-and-notes-to-singing operation. It was a human imitation of the style with sound post processing to imitate the tone of the target singer to be imitated.
Attitudes have changed over the years; there was a time when a singer whose tone was very similar to Bing Crosby's complained he could not get engagements because Bing would sue the people who used him. Bing eventually took pity on the singer and toured with his vocal double. I believe modern copyright law does not subject to copyright the original imitation of a sound.
You damn well people held the laughs in. I would have been on the ground in tears laughing if i was in there and they played this.
You're one of the only A.I. creator I have been exposed to that I feel uses the tech as a tool in a novel and artistic way. The fact that you're also helping expose the danger of unregulated A.I. systems is just icing on the cake.
2021: Your honor, I am not a cat.
2024: Congressman, I am not a robot.
Do you think he meant impose instead of repose?
“Do you think congress ought to repose first amendment speech rights on robots?”
Yes, he meant "impose." That's why Laynie Wilson was so confused on how to answer.
I think he doesn't know the difference.
Even "impose" doesn't make sense: "You have rights and there's nothing you can do about it!"
He’s trying to confuse and/or reassure the robots that made this amazing track
@@resplendentpeace No, you’re right. I wonder if he was trying to say “impose restrictions on government regulating the free speech of robots as is already on the regulation of citizens’ free speech. “. It’s Gaetz--who knows.
Boomhauer Rap God is such a stroke of genius. The fact that you yourself vocalize these, instead of just using text-to-speech, really brings home that this is art. Please, keep it going.
Love that they are making this the issue rather than targeting Disney and Warner and other actual big corporations that are blatantly using AI rather than paying creators.
pretty sure that hasn't been the case at all as of yet, but you can bet that the second it does become a problem, a republican will be fighting for it to stop
@@noahsylvester1754 It has been the case, there's multiple examples of larger corporations training their AI without paying those whose works their training from and Republicans have been quiet about it.
@@noahsylvester1754here's your daily reminder that the entire internet is at your fingertips and you have the option to educate yourself at any time
Didn't know I was listening to a robot this whole time. Coolest robot since Johnny 5.
He's alive!!
@@jarodamusprime8048Facts
(Spoilers) He is given full inalienable rights as a US Citizen at the end of Short Circuit 2. So he no longer applies to this debate.
May he never disassemble.
Not Johnny 5.
You can't make this up.
They did though
That's kinda the point... You can make this stuff up.
I've adored your content for years and been citing you _repeatedly_ as an example of how this technology can be used. Both as an example in itself, but also an example of how it's better as a brace than a crutch, supplementing the existing talent and effort. It is, on the whole, no more dangerous or extreme than Autotune is.
Keep doing what you do, and I'll keep listening to it. You're an amazing vocal imitator and the law is firmly on your side in this one.
"I'm not a robot" seems like exactly the kind of thing an evil robot would say.
"Tough crowd" and "of course Gaetz brings porn into it" had me dead 😂
And now we gotta ban this type of content for murder.
Exhibit A: @LucasMp is dead.
I’m surprised he didn’t inject a “hypothetical“ question about AI teen porn
Some day, Gaetz is going to do that will require an underpaid FBI agent to search his computer. I feel sorry for that poor individual and what they are going to see.
Matt Gaetz voted against criminalizing revenge porn, but now he’s afraid AI might be used to produce pornography…? Seriously, fuck this guy.
@@My-cat-is-staring-at-you you must not know about the FBIs collection of...questionable files. What's that old saying? To catch a fish you have to think like a fish?
I'm starting to learn that US congressmen go for gotcha moments and seemingly have no idea what they are talking about.
Well Gaetz is an idiot doucebag in or out of congress.
Congress is functionally broken as an institution, and has been for decades. It's the root of all the political problems the US is facing right now. Literally all they can do is go for soundbites, because nothing else is getting done. They can barely pass a budget, their *only* constitutionally mandated task.
That's pretty much the entirety of GOP lawmakers. They are always the first ones to go for the "think of the children" argument, which means they are trying to push something that will fuck everyone except themselves over. And they are the ones more likely to "think of the children" and end up on lists. Gaetz is probably one of them.
Starting to learn?? 😮
@AnaIvanovic4ever
In my defence I'm British and I only really get to see it through CZcams shorts 😂
just editing his voice... if this process is illegal, then the music industry are a bunch of criminals using auto tune, and sound mixing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Congratulations On 1 Million Subscribers!
They are actually giving you a huge compliment. They are saying you are so good that you have to be a robot and that you could easily fool people.
Kudos
"It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that." - Mark Twain
And then there's Nikola Tesla.
Holy the look behind the scenes makes your work just that much cooler.
You are literally Weird Al for the 21st century. Keep it up and kick some ass.
That's such a weird thing to say, as if Weird Al isn't still alive and making music.
Weird Al literally released his 18th Polka hours before this.
This needs more coverage. We absolutely need protections from AI fraud and identity theft, but not parody.
Its pretty simple. AI, and robots, are not subject to free speech and therefore cannot violate copyright laws. Only humans can.
@@Dead_Goat Is grooming minors violating the law ? If so someone should tell that Gaetz dudebro, he'll be surprised.
This isnt parody.
Its not somebody singing and playing LIKE johnny cash. Its somebody using samples from Johnny Cash collected by an AI to make the product.
It isnt original. Make your own character. Dont steal other peoples likeness just to put words in their mouth and claim you created something. You didnt. Its not creation. Its immitation.
that's what government wants. when people can't tell what is real they will be the solution and their solution is more restrictions to our freedom and ID's
@@raphaelvermin you're wrong on so many levels, it's not like "all art is imitation" is the most famous quote about the creative process, dating back from the concept of mimesis from Seneca...
We can tell you're not a creative, but you dont have to prove to the whole planet how uninformed you are about the creative process, and how pitifully empty you are.
This dude can sing an almost perfect imitation before he even uses AI, masters the production and sound design, and yet you're treating it like some low effort clickbait. You're probably listening to vain chart artists that dont compose anything, and are devoid of any talent, yet can't possibly understand how much work these hilarioud tracks represent.
Grow a spine dude, you're just wasting air.
With this month alone featuring stuff like an Assassination Attempt and Y2K 24 years late, I think we are truly living in some sort of fictional world, a “Barbie world” perhaps.
With microplastics in our blood, we are becoming Barbie!😬😉
@@E-magineMySurprise life in plastic, it's...fantastic?
@@Derlaidit ain't helping me any.
@@zendell37 You can brush my hair, undress me any wherGAETTZ GET OUT OF THE GIRLS LOCKER ROOM
Does that mean that you can brush my haor takr me anywheeere i dont remember the rest
The most frustrating part for me is that AI voice technology has the potential to make real people's lives better, but it's glossed over by scaremongers. If I lose my voice, say in an accident or from cancer, we now have the technology to recreate *my* voice so I can still speak for myself as myself. That's insane, that's life changing. Yet here they are arguing about robots making p**n.
Anyways, love your work man. It brightens my day.
most of the benefits are going to go to people monetizing voices they have no right too. just like how ai art steals human visual art to create minor copies with no reimbursement or credit given to real creators. i don't think porn and whatever is the issue but a new wave of automating creative human labor
@@slightexag truth. What we need are laws protecting identity and labor rights, not the tech companies, not fighting against straw men.
@@jakkaljakobie8774 we agree there, but politicians are too concerned with winning their partisan games rather than doing anything sensible whatsoever. they would block legislation making drinking water legal (if it weren't already the case) just because the other side wanted it too. the stupid scare tactic strategy is the only viable one because it gives them a political excuse to support something obvious; without a political cover, they wouldn't publicly support breathing air or the value of being happy
To be fair revenge porn is already pretty fucking terrifying as it is. If AI allows those kinds of people to go one step further, the lives of victims who already suffer a lot as it is just gets worse and the damage it can create in terms of fraud (particularly identity fraud) is insane, even like the voice of a kid on the telephone asking for help or replicating the voice of people to incriminate them. Everyone needs to take all the ways it already is (and will be) exploited seriously and actually create laws to protect victims and proper penalties and institutions to carry them out. The way these AI are trained on stolen data and that people should be able to decide (and abstain) from having their voice/face and art used is also important and should be addressed both what has already been done and what should and shouldn't be fair use going forward. It's just that I wouldn't trust any politician anywhere to do it, those people have no shame and no moral compass.
CZcamsrs are already doing it to fake their own voice, for instances when they got a cold that day.
Someone dropped the world and glued it back together wrong
How did you figure it out? Time to reset...
-Issa: “My friend and a man I actually saw in concert”
-Gaetz: “Robots”
--Us: "Morons."
For the breakdown, followed by the breakdown, and with the final reveal I finally subbed.
No longer lackadaisically coming across these in my timeline. I want first dibs now.
God damn no is talking about how nice your voice is god damn. Forget all the memes, I would so listen to you do covers
funny thing is how this jonny cash song turns into a commentary on ai after the barbie girl part
This is what our government has come to. What the heck.
Seriously though, these are our elected officials, what a joke
What? It seems silly, but if they're going to try to pass law regarding AI, they do need examples and evidence of what they're dealing with. If they're talking on music, individual voice rights, etc., this would be case relevant.
ETA: Apologies, I hadn't finished the video. Matt Gaetz is a clown. Oh, and a sex trafficker, can't forget that.
ETA again: Although, to my first statement the point still stands to a degree.
This is serious enough. You can say "What the hell."
Honestly I'm fine with higher government officials dealing with this in order to tell YT and recording studios to stfu with regard to parody. It's gotta go somewhere, gotta end up somewhere in order to get a ruling.
"Venmo-teens-for-sex" Gaetz should have been sent to Florence ADX long ago, so disregard what that chomo says, though.
Fr. Why now 😭
Very important to go after parodies and comedy, that's always so important to police. Can't have freedom of expression getting out of hand
I agree that bringing up this channel as an example is silly, but I’m assuming the point was to talk about ai, which does need to be discussed and regulated, not to “go after comedy”
@@desertdesk it's an issue yes, but I think cracking down on all ways of using AI will harm freedom of expression, as it just presumes that if AI is involved, then human artistry isn't. This is parody, but because AI was used for part of it, it's suddenly not a funny impersonation but "a robot tarnishing a celebrity's image".
Saddest thing is, johnny cash would have probably loved this parody if he would have still been around.
Id be half tempted to feed their audio congress into an AI mix...
This needs more likes, a pin and an upload of a finished work of art! 🤣
The irony! That'd be great! 😀
I don’t see why not, Any soundbite from Congress and The Senate would be considered public domain (note: Do seek CSPAN’s permission before posting said AI work containing Congress to CY🍑😉)
@@sawtooth808 You make an excellent point! I'm going to green light this and dig out the reel to reel recorder!
The video title is a summary of 2024 so far 😂
I was wondering if I was dreaming when I started the video lololol
Robot? No. Passable impressionist with a great ear for music? Absolutely 💪💪
"Tough crowd" is absolutely savage.
People have no idea. I had no idea. You’re a pretty insane singer. You didn’t ruin it at all!
I hate it when people who don't (most of the time) know shit about technologies just assume the thing does itself, while in reality we have to do a lot of work to do it. And then they make the rules based on that assumption.
I still see older people losing there shit when they see a smart speaker and wondering why anyone would "allow google/amazon/the government etc." to listen to private convos.... This is while they have a smart phone within six inches from them 24/7 🙃.. It's wild how ignorant most people are so im not surprised about this at all sadly.
I mean the job of the engineer is to optimize, and we can optimize in quality, cost, and effort required by the user. We'll eventually optimize the effort required until it's really as simple as they think it is. So in the long term they're not wrong.
except in this case with AI the end point is literally that the AI will do pretty much everything. You will just say "make johnny cash sing barbie girl", and the ai will do everything. Were not there yet, but thats where the logical conclusion is. Law makers often have to think about the near future of things and how laws need to be written so that the laws dont become obsolete faster than they can be decided on.
Imagine if 5 years after the car was invented they invented the flying car. Laws around driving cars would be completely meaningless once the cars fly. then imagine 5 years after that they can go the speed of sound and are driven by themselves. Thats comparable to the rate of development of Ai technology. No country can rewrite its laws every couple of years.
Yeah. You're both right, but first of all it would still be acceptable and it would still be a parody, second of all, now it's not the case and we should treat creators with respect
I don't think you understand what the actual objection is and you're probably a Commie.
I don't know whether to congratulate you or get concerned
the logical move is more to be concerned
YOU MADE IT TO CONGRESS !!!
I have served 22+ yrs in the military and have NEVER made it to Congress !!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
CONGRATULATIONS !!!
If you want an email list for media venues to send this video to, let me know. Media should probably be informed of this error at this hearing.
Did they ask for your permission to play it in Congress? 😂 lawsuit! Law suit! Law suit! Played in public place without permission 👍
I think the lawyer's argument would be that no person made this, that an AI did, and that since AI outputs aren't copyrightable that he doesn't need anyone's permission to play it. Of course he'd be wrong because as we saw in the video most of the actual work is done by a person.
@@FracturedPixels so we'd get a great mic drop moment and our boy would get a payout 👍
I think there's a general exemption for congress
@@JulianSildenLanglo 😂 of course there is, I think it's AI, so I can play it if I want to
@@blindbrad4719 I don't think there is anything illegal about playing something from social media in a public place 👍
Everytime there is a new revolutionary technology some people start screaming that the sky is falling. A.I is just a tool, it can be used for good and bad purposes, but ultimately it's there to compliment human talent, not replace it. In a few years A.I will be taken for granted by almost everyone just like all the other great technological breakthroughs throughout history.
sure, and like with every technological revolution there needs to be new laws created to ensure people don't abuse them.
before cars existed there was no laws about cars. people had to get together and decide what the speed limit should be, what the signs look like. what vehicles are considered road safe became an issue as people die too much in accidents, so the laws steadily change over time as well...
There is going to have to be laws created around the development of the tool that is AI.
We really don't need many lawsfor anything tho @@ge2719
@@ge2719Agreed. The problem is when the lawmakers are completely clueless about how the technology works.
This is fine usage. The problem is the AI Bros on twitter who think typing a prompt somehow equates to or is more difficult than learning and becoming skilled at something
Accuses an artist of being a robot…quite the bot, aren’t you, mr gaetz? 😂
Matt Gaetz probably thinks the internet is a series of tubes.
Technically, they are a bunch of really tiny tubes filled with glass that shoot light really far :P
That is housed in a Black box, controlled by a man older than Chuck Grassley called “The Elder of the Internet” 🤭
So does half of the internet, judging from the Anti-AI hate mob
Expecting Gaetz to be knowledgeable or engage any topic in good faith is like expecting The Easter Bunny to leave money under your (lumpy) pillow on Christmas Eve.
You're already giving Gaetz too much credit by using his name and the word "thinks" in the same sentence
There is way more work put into this than I thought there was, and I already thought there was a lot of work.
To be fair you got hella talent nailing the original speech patterns before the AI modifications get overlayed
“I Guess You’re Not Ready For That Yet…But Your Kids Are Gonna Love It!”
Take it as a compliment. They think it's soo good no human could have created the parodies.
i'd say the ai part is a lot harder for a human to do than just sing a song
They say you can judge a man based on the qualities of his enemy.
Ignorance and incompetence are funny qualities for an opposition to have, makes it easier to win against them but not bring them to your side.
By that standard, ain't none of us looking too good right now.
@@Brasswatchman Everyone loves to point to the skeletons in other peoples closets while pretending they don't have any in theirs.
@@LemmonDP That is the way the game's played. Except these days some types aren't even bothering with the closet and just throwing their skeletons out there, daring people to see them.
So what does it say about a man if his enemies are complete buffoons?
You are so incredibly talented, and I enjoy every second of your art.
We live in the worst timeline when the *United States Congress* is playing a video of a Robot Johnny Cash singing "Barbie Girl" discussing whether or not it's legal.
These morons are completely blind to real issues. Discussing parodies instead of real issues, get those idiots out of there.
and also dragging porn into the discussion
I'm actually really glad you showed your process. As someone who has VERY strong opinions on AI generated content and AI voice and face replacement (I'm primarily concerned with it's impact on film and TV and anything that replaces human beings in an artist space is pretty much never okay with me), I'm really glad to know you actually record it and just modify it, instead of generating it wholesale. It also explains why is always sounds so good, 100% AI recreation isn't usually so polished and perfect 😅 Rock on, my friend!
personally thats the only version of barbie girl i ever wanna hear
No death metal Barbie girl?
@@ProjectExMachinaI mean GWAR did just do a remix of I’m Ken….
Shoul listen a Sabaton version of it
Check out Postmodern Jukebox arrangement.
@@Gus-n9u GWAR isn't death metal.
Humor. Talent. Skills. You has it. A real robot should be so lucky.
From the size of Matt’s head you’d expect him to be a genius, but then he opens his mouth.
Every politician ever, regardless of party.
He hasn't served any men recently (twilight zone shoutout)
He looks like a lost character from Goodfellas.
... And removes all doubt.
Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficker who has no business opening his mouth on any issue except those related to his subpoenas.
Thanks, Congress, for making me aware of this genius song.
Came for the lulz, stayed for the artistry... settling in for the congressional rebuttal.
Dude, I already enjoyed your videos, but now I fucking love your videos. I was entirely ignorant of all the work and talent behind the clever and hilarious choices. Thanks for making this video.