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There gonna be this one guy who’s probably treating the badges like Pokémon

I present to you the new badge - The Colossus of Prora

Yeah, this is one of those hypothetical late night thoughts I had. Honestly, this is more of a inspirational completion thing that someone would do where they are inspired by one of the badges to write a piece of music purposefully trying to get that badge

Thank you Peter, I become the first recipient of this badge!!!!!! 😍

I see why it is Skull Collector By the time I get it, My head is already a skull.

This may be a good idea... for example if a member collects some number of manually awarded badges they get an extra badge for it like Bronze/Silver/Gold Collector or something like that!

I don’t know if this exists yet or if it’s possible that you would make it exist, but this idea is called the. “ skull collector award.” it’s for collecting all possible specialty badges from compositions. (when I mean by specialty badges, I meant the manually awarded badges that you would usually get by writing a certain piece of music that excels in something). I feel that it will be more complete with the competition awards, but that would just make it impossible due to seasonality. This award would be permanently awarded to those who completed all possible badges before any updates meaning that if someone received the badge one day and the following day added three more other badges than they would still keep the award.

“Good evening, dear friends. Here is the scherzo from my third Sonata. I hope you like it.”

LoL I'm wrong, Thatguy doesn't get the badge to be a better self!! 😜

The badge was already there! Even Thatguy himself got Better than Thatguy badge lol!

Yeah, I read some time ago that Open AI (the company that created Chat GPT) is going bankrupt Last year, a Spanish soccer team “hired” an AI to decide what players they were going to buy and sell and for what price etc, and they ended up having one of their worse results in the last fifteen years. Let’s hope something similar happens with music

The thing about that though is that no one cares. Listeners do not care, anyone who would hire composers does not care, etc. One thing that can be given to the individuality camp is that AI does not seem to be able to, and may never be able to, do something like compose an entire album that has a consistent style. So it composes one piece of music that you like, it can't compose more that retain the same "fingerprint" that Beethoven or Metallica has throughout their work. People will probably find that disappointing. But not disappointing enough to turn people away from AI. Because all that people ultimately care about is whether or not it sounds good. However, it could be that this is all a moot discussion as the sustainability of AI is coming more and more into question. These programs require large data centers to maintain, and they are pretty much all spending more money than they are making; it's mostly investors keeping them above water. At some point prices of the services are going to skyrocket because they will need even more hardware, electricity and such to support literally everyone using just a handful of services. Private individuals, big companies, everyone. Then you must consider something like ChatGPT. ChatGPT is not replacing search engines because why pay to ask the robot when just about anything you want to know has already been written by humans and is freely available online? The other issue is that AI cannot presently make changes in small details; it has to reinvent the entire image or whatever. If it were capable of doing small, specific tweaks, this will exponentially increase the demand for processing power. So far, despite the fears that it will destroy all the jobs, it has not proven to be a more profitable, efficient or economical alternative to people.

AI music, while impressive, still lacks the nuanced creativity and emotional depth that human composers bring to their work. Current AI tools, despite their ability to generate music, can't truly replicate the individuality and taste of human artists. They often produce outputs based on patterns in training data, which might not always translate into high-quality or innovative compositions.

Moved this to Composers HQ so that there's more visibility. While I do agree AI can be a good thing, it's just a tool. I've always said this...a 2 year old is smarter than AI. The reason? Because a 2 year old has actual intelligence, and can make decisions based on external stimuli. Whereas, AI is not intelligence, it's a misnomer. I would challenge an AI to create a melody at the Tchaikovsky level. The AI may create music that sounds like Tchaikovsky, but just the harmonies perhaps. This is largely because harmony is more of the mathematical aspect of music, whereas melody or structure is the creative aspect of music. Anything to do with creativity, is something AI wouldn't handle that well. It may simulate creativity, but it will never actually execute something on its own.

I'm not sure I follow. There's already so many manually awardable badges .. surely you're not suggesting that someone could ever get them all?! . . .