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First AI Singer Bags a $3 Million Record Deal

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0:05 Welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys where Hey, would you >> would >> you would >> y wouldn't. >> Yep. >> Who is that? >> Her name is uh I hopefully I pronounce this correct. Zia. X A N I A Monae. >> Hot name, too. Uh she's an R&B singer and she just uh signed a $3 million record deal with Hollywood Media after her music which uh has just achieved viral success. Um yeah, she's she's >> she's the new wave. New wave R&B singer. >> Uh why is it interesting and important? It's because >> she fine. >> SHE'S AI. >> WHAT? >> WHAT THE ████ Why is it so good? >> Who are you signing with then? I mean,

0:56 this one is Hollywood media >> artist behind the AI. >> I guess you're signing the the art this particular scene. You're signing her. Why do they have to tell everybody it's AI already? >> Who does the money go to? It goes to the creators. >> The creator >> to ████ Frederick Kim or some ████ >> Frederick Kim. >> So, Freddy Kim. >> So, she is a singer and artist created by Mississippi based poet and design studio owner Telicia Nikki Jones. Well, at least it's a black woman, I'm assuming. >> It sounds like it. >> That's cool. So, Tisha Jones >> is the one that gets the money, but she created this AI R&B singer and the R&B singer got signed. That's great. >> So, is the singing also AI? Cuz it's like, what if they can't even sing on key? They like sound like ████ >> So, the lyrics for Zaniel Monaet's songs are written by her creator, Telicia

1:46 Jones, based on her original poetry and experiences. >> Oh, I thought they chat GBT that ████ the AI music platform, uh, Jones uses, uh, AI music generator SNO to transform her poems and lyrics into fully produced R&B songs. >> Wow. >> And then in terms of the visual persona, a distinct visual persona was created for Xia Monae and her songs received millions of streams on platforms like Spotify and YouTube before some fans realized she was AI. You know what kind of sucks and it's but it's kind of funny to me is that when AI was coming out I think a lot of people were like oh well they'll never take art cuz that's all original ████ Like they can't capture the emotion and that's the first thing that's happening before the other jobs. >> It's all ████ art. >> That means we're gone. >> Yeah. We're toast. >> Yeah. But >> but let's keep it positive. >> Keep it positive. [laughter] >> Real quick. [clears throat] Speaking of

2:36 AI music and stuff like that, you guys heard 50 Cents uh uh 1950s 21 question. >> Oh, I heard I heard on Rogan. It sounds sick. >> Sounds sick. >> I listen to the whole thing. I was like, "What the hell? It's good all the way through." >> I mean, good is good, you know? Like I'm I'm not in that boat of like ultra artist pure purity where it's like if it's not like created in this like you know nonGMO way or whatever the freak then it's like if it's good it's good. If I if I get duped >> and I think this is like a banging song or whatever then it's a banging song. I enjoyed it. >> You'll get there when there's a dance and dance teacher who's AI out there then you're going to you're going to get there bro. >> I'm fine with that as long as I get my monies for it. You know >> that's what I'm saying. You won't. >> I thought about that. The dance teachers

3:27 AI, it's impossible. >> Why? >> It's not going to be as good as the real ones. >> How do you know? >> You're just copying their moves. >> Because their movement's not going to be natural >> yet. I don't know. There's some good AI dances out there. >> Just a matter of time, bro. >> It It'll all happen. And And that's fine. That's just how human progression and evolution is meant to be. >> You know what? You're right. Goodbye, >> dude. I was able to make my ████ unicycle assassin with AI. I did that ████ in 30 seconds and I was like, "Dude, >> I don't even know what you're talking about." >> I put in a group chat. >> I still don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> You know what's crazy? And plus the AI, dude, they're probably making it so fast. [snorts] You all right? Making it so fast and freaking no time wasted. You know what I mean? So, you think in in the future the

4:17 artist is going to be like less and less the way they make? >> I think they'll be forever. I think it's like, you know, you know how we watch artists age right now? Like, we won't like how Madonna like his old lady now, you know? Like, it'll just be the same person >> and it'll be just the same with acting, right? Like imagine like Alpuccino is always like in his 30s in all movies and he >> it's like when people say like, "Oh, I liked Kanye when he was this. I don't like all these other albums." Now, you're just going to get that forever. >> Get what you want. You know what? That's tight. Goodbye to all these artistes. >> We could be immortal now by AI. >> I mean, there's going to be like within the next probably 10 years, you'll see like a new movie by like Judy Garland or somebody like like Marilyn Monroe. Like there's there's groups out there right now snapping up all their rights >> so they can start to do productions of like these famous actors. >> And also from an art point of view, originality is still going to need to be

5:08 created cuz like AI models are still generating things based off of an inspiration point or a prompt, right? So even a creator still needs to do something original to give to AI to develop it. >> Yeah. >> Until we get to the point where AI models are like creating original. They're they're not like redoing Judy Garland or like you know like taking these poems and turning them into songs until they're actually from A to Z creating something brand new for the first time then like artists are always still going to have a platform and a job or something to do. So like even in that conversation like yeah dude with the dance world like they're going to like start taking over like and creating all the moves it's like cool well then the pivot is to create the AI studio that makes the dancers you know like and if you don't jump on those trains that are moving a freight train that's unstoppable then like that's on you to be weedled out from the from the

5:58 industry as well anyway. >> Yeah. There's still a human behind the AI. >> What's one thing you think AIs cannot take over? I was just thinking about that and I was like, "Oh, they probably couldn't do like, let's say, the UFC." >> But I'm like, "What's stopping them though? They could create a fighter and another fighter and then algorithmically it would create the best fight." I'm like, "Dude, I think they could." >> By the way, the way that these Optimus robots are moving now, like, it's just a matter of time before they're doing jiu-jitsu and all that ████ >> It's going to be crazy. >> If you like Battlebots, you're going to like UFC Robot Edition. >> And it'll be branded. It'll be like how we all talk about, you know, our whole lives. We know monster trucks, right? You got Bigfoot, you got Gravedigger. It'll be like that and they're forever, right? Nobody ever talks about the drivers. It's just the same brand. >> I feel like something like this when we were growing up as kids where they were like battle boss like and they had guns

6:49 and ████ and then I don't know. Wasn't Was there something like that or did we all wish that happened? >> I think you're just in your head wishing about that. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Cuz I I have a feeling that we had ████ like that. >> We had battle cartoons. They'll have battle bots. >> No, but like like it was a cartoon or like it was like an actual movie or something where like like they would have customized things and >> talking about the Hugh Jackman movie. >> Oh, he's talking about um Twisted Metal. >> Oh, the video game. Yeah. >> Yeah. There we go. >> With the clown truck. >> They're making a movie out of that, too. >> Yeah, they are. >> Twisted Metal was fire. >> Space and arrow keys only. >> You guys ever see the movie Simone with Aluccino? >> No. >> It's about this. It's about like um so there's like a a a new actress who's like hot in Hollywood and she's completely digital and nobody knows it. So so Alpuchino plays her manager and basically he has to keep the secret the

7:39 whole time from the public and people are like where's Simone? Where's Simone? So he keeps on hiring like like lookalikes to like wear sunglasses and like go from a car to like a movie studio and take get pictures taken and stuff to make her feel real but it gets exposed. It's really I like that movie. It's interesting but it's about this exact thing. What do you guys think about security? Like inerson security? >> What do you mean? >> Like Optimus robots. >> Could it be replaced by AI? >> Yeah. >> I think AR be way better because they don't lose attention. They don't get tired. They could stand for 24 hours. >> You think about your own job right now? >> No, >> I'm thinking about police officers. >> Well, I don't know about police officers, but like but I mean we use security cameras. like that's just the next level security camera. It's just now a robot that's just chilling by your house and then if someone breaks in they'll be like stop.

8:29 >> And I think there's a there's a conversation towards like having uh the not the compromise but the it's the combination that's complimentary, right? Like if you have a bunch of like AI security cops or soldiers that are still being like led by like a human entity of some sort, then it's like maybe that's beneficial, you know, that like um there's there's a a theory about, you know, Elon Musk's uh entire web of creations when it comes to like the Optimus robots, right? If you have the optimist robots that can do XYZ functional things in in a standard where they don't sleep, they don't get tired, they don't get injured, they don't have no certain type of fear that humans might encounter. >> Girlfriends don't break up with them. And then on top of that, he's working side by side with something like Neurolink, right? If they develop that far enough, why can't a human who's like really really good at security and doing

9:20 all that stuff neurolink and be able to control all the robots at the same time and like pay attention to different things? Or even if it's just a onetoone connection, let's say you get to stay at home neural linked up and being like a superhuman robot that's out there, but if you get shot or stabbed, you're fine. You just replace it with the next bad >> Robocop. I might need to move to Montana or something. That's just too crazy for me. >> And that's what scares me, though, is that, you know, if you tell a soldier to shoot a bunch of civilians, there's a human element to it where they >> There's a conscience. >> Exactly. Whereas a robot will just do what the hell they're told. cuz I I would have been like, "Oh man, I missed >> cuz you still got to follow the >> but also the threshold for a robot to not have to is higher than a human because the robot won't th feel as threatened so they can keep walking forward not being afraid that they're going to get attacked." >> I'm talking about who's in control of

10:10 the robot and like who's in control of the army, right? Like you could tell them whatever the hell you want, but they they might not do it cuz they're human beings. Like whereas robots, they'll do whatever the hell they they're told. No safeguards, no regulations. That scares me. >> What if we program the AI to be like, "Hey, that's not right." Cuz Chad GBT does that right now. [cough] I'll be like, [clears throat] "Teach me how to ████ make some meth." And they're like, "No, I can't." >> No, that's actually a huge problem right now cuz like Chad GBT was like found and there's a huge um controversy because like that's how somebody some high school kid or something was able to learn how to build a bomb. >> Oh, maybe my props suck. >> So be like, "Yo, teach me. I'm trying to blow some ████ up. Teach me how to do it. And then they're like, I can't. That's illegal. >> And I'm like, man, you gay, dude. I've been asking it some stuff that I can't say on camera, but then it called me

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