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AI creates the 'average fan' for each genre of music and it'll divide opinion

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Published 15:37 17 Jul 2023 GMT+1

AI creates the 'average fan' for each genre of music and it'll divide opinion

Some music fans have been absolutely stitched up here

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

We asked an AI to give us a picture of what it thought the average fan of 26 different genres of music were and it gave us the results, though you might not like what you see.

People are using AI for all sorts of things these days, including trying to guess what we'll look like 1,000 years from now and what the 'average person' in a range of different jobs looks like.

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People don't always like the results AI coughs up, especially when it's supposed to be depicting them in some way shape or form.

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This is what an AI thinks an average Acid House fan looks like. Who are we to argue?
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There's also the slight issue that for all it can create AI still has some blind spots, it can get you a vague idea of what you ask it to make but very often demonstrates it didn't really understand the assignment.

Yes, the average techno fan is wearing two sets of headphones and has become more machine than man.
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Sometimes it coughs up inhuman creations which were so obviously put together by a computer that couldn't understand what it was doing.

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Mr Techno looks to be mostly robot himself, and it's not hard to spot that he appears to be wearing two sets of headphones over each other along with a series of weird contraptions all over his head.

The average rock fan, or perhaps your dad during his mid-life crisis.
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Rock fans get a slightly smoother ride, though they're blown out of the water by the AI generated heavy metal fans.

For some images the AI attempted to create a reasonably realistic depiction of the 'average fan', then for genres like pop and funk it just decided to throw out any depiction of a real person and do what it wanted.

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Mr Heavy Metal, when dad gets out of the mid-life crisis but keeps the guitar.
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For some images the AI attempted to create a reasonably realistic depiction of the 'average fan', then for genres like pop and funk it just decided to throw out any depiction of a real person and do what it wanted.

Methinks the AI has messed up the 'average fan' of Classical music with the average creator.
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Then there are times when it just straight-up gives us a depiction of the creators rather than the stereotypical fans, that is unless classical music fans like donning 18th Century garb before they blast Beethoven at full volume.

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Five tickets to Oppenheimer please.
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Some of the closest depictions to humans come from the AI's attempt to capture Ska fans, but even then there's still some clear clues that what you're looking at isn't real.

Look at the fella wearing both a standard tie and a bow tie at the same time, more evidence that AI can make something but it can't understand some key details.

The world's most stereotypical Country music fan, and a flag in the background in case you forget which country the name means.
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The tell-tale signs of AI image generation are still there, one of the easiest ways to tell something is up is by looking at the hands and feet of people in the picture as technology still struggles to draw them.

The average dance music fan is someone who enjoys dancing. Who'd have thought it?
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Despite that it certainly has a flair for the dramatic and colourful, so we don't think any disco divas will be too upset with their portrayal by the AI.

While some genres have had a bit of a raw deal others have been depicted in undeniably cool ways, so while grime music is represented by some guy standing in the middle of his street there are plenty of others which are made to look cooler.

It turns out Jesus returned some time ago but just got really into disco.
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Even when the person AI is depicting looks pretty darn realistic the backgrounds often look quite insane.

The world's most average dubstep fan also has some unkind things to say about your mother over Xbox Live.
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Perhaps whatever the hell that is behind the young dubstep fan actually exists somewhere in the world and the AI has cribbed it off some image, but it just looks so very unrealistic.

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Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Art, Music

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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