I was doing a little house cleaning on my day off since I\u2019m a party animal and wanted to listen to a little music while I worked. As opposed to whistling, I suppose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201csmart\u201d TV has the best and most central sound system in the house and I fired it up and opened the Youtube app. I laboriously used the remote to enter \u201caimee mann lost in space full\u201d and by that point it found her full album – two versions, in fact. One had 11 tracks and the other had 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinking it was a bonus song, I started up the 12 track version and started on my work around the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had to keep coming back after each song to skip the ads and I was in the kitchen when another one came on.\u00a0 I was washing dishes and didn\u2019t want to bother drying off my hands and going back to the living room to push the skip button.\u00a0 I figured it would end soon enough and get back to the music, but it didn\u2019t.\u00a0 After a couple of minutes, I went to investigate this long ad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, it wasn\u2019t an ad. It was a track in the play list. The graphic was an animated sheet of music and the title was \u201cUnreleased\u201d. Instead of music, it was a voice speaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The voice was clearly AI.\u00a0 The script was also clearly AI generated.\u00a0 And the topic was, unfortunately, all about the virtues of crypto currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe track was 57 minutes long<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I picked up the remote and worked my way back to the menu. In and among the tracks of Aimee Mann\u2019s \u201cLost in Space\u201d album was this AI slop. I skipped past it and the album resumed – with ordinary commercials in between the songs as expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later on, I looked up this tracklist on my computer\u2019s youtube account and found the owner. All of their \u201cfull album\u201d versions had this garbage track inserted somewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This person – if it\u2019s even a person and not a bot – played on the idea that some people like to listen to a whole album by an artist they like. They pulled all the tracks together and then inserted this \u201cUnreleased\u201d track as a tease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIt has 6.3 million views<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This is why we can\u2019t have nice things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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