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For every bad example, there’s one in the other side. That country song last year went #1 before most people realized it was AI bc it’s so good it sounds human. 🤷‍♂️ https://www.newsweek.com/breaking-rust-ai-music-country-digital-sales-11022040

It’s only as good as the person writing the query. If the person really knows how to write advanced prompts, it produces original creative content….fast. I get your passion. I do. A lot of people are in denial about what’s happening.

It’s happening to a lot of people across all generations. I feel badly for younger people trying to find entry level work as those experiences are automated first. Exactly how I see it too. Maybe I’m nieve but I think the arts/drum corps communities are going to be more thoughtful about using it as an enhancement mechanism more than a full artistic replacement. For sure….companies will push for much deeper uses than the arts.

Let’s be honest….Drum corps is not private industry….they aren’t going to replace 90% of their workforce and do negative things with it. It’s not going to be doomsday to use it in dci. Things might be better from it.

Oh, no doubt there will be resistance. There is an uncomfortable reality coming for all of us though, that AI can do most things better and faster than humans. Today’s judging system has its flaws, which we widely discuss on here. As this tool improves, there may be the ability to create a new and better judging system that has more predictable and improved outcomes. For instance, AI may find ways of critically assessing content scores in ways that human judges simply can’t bc of limitations to us using our senses and only being able to focus on parts of the field at one time. AI can eventually attend critique, btw. It can sit there, give feedback, pull up real time videos showing its feedback, etc. it’s like having real time analysis at a football game. Regarding limiting files on internet, that fight is lost. Anyone who has a copy of a show on their phone can upload into AI and it’s there….for single or broad use. DCI may get some things blocked in US, but you can use other countries tools that have no restrictions. There no stopping it. It’s better to embrace it and work with the change. My suggestion is be open-minded to change as it may save this activity. Moral upholding of artistic value and judging standards doesn’t mean much if this activity doesn’t deal with its expensiveness that is slowly making it unsustainable. Paving a path with lower costs, better affordability to students, and seeing dci corps expansion seems like a more exciting opportunity, and the chance to preserve future generations of students getting the chance to march.

That’s not my experience with AI, and I work with it every day. AI can deliver massively complex analysis, generate songs, design costumes, etc in seconds, a fracture of human time. I actually have seen it do massively complex business cases that would take humans weeks, and it does it in 15 seconds better than a first draft by human. Corps are faced with massive expenses right now that are making the activity unsustainable and threaten its existence. If AI can help aid corps in producing quality shows with less staff overhead so that it can lower tuition costs for students, that’s a huge win IMO….and it could even pave the way for more corps to exist again and tour. And those corps will need staff for them so I think it’s a win/win for students, the activity, and staff. As for AI stealing It’s no different than humans. I was literally watching something on Netflix today and heard a supposedly original score that was almost identical to one from another movie. Same chords. Same instruments. Slightly different spacing and tempo….but the influence was quite apparent. As AI is around longer, it’ll become more creative and think of things we haven’t. Not everyone likes it. A lot of people are in collective denial that we have entered a new industrial revolution fueled by AI and robotics. I get it. But it’s happening. Everything in our lives is going to change. And this activity will experiment with how to apply it.

AI is improving by magnitudes each year. Within a few years, it’ll surpass general human capability so not using it would limit experience for students as there will be corps with far superior shows that have used AI and those corps who are left behind by not using it. It’s true that right now AI borrows from humans….just like humans have borrowed and been inspired by other humans. But where we are headed is most of the information online will eventually be from AI. So AI will actually end up borrowing from itself at an exponential rate. I understand a lot of people are scared. But it’s here, and it will invade every aspect of our lives, including the arts and drum corps. Its invention is kinda like nuclear energy or the internet that once created there’s no going back.

It’s inevitable, I’m afraid. With judging leaning so heavily towards GE and the creative, lots of groups will turn to AI to find competitive advantage. It may take some time bc the older generations in charge of many corps don’t fully know how powerful the tool is yet. But new young talent will adopt it and it’ll become normalized as they prove its successes.

It’ll impact everything: Corps will be able to produce shows with fewer staff one day AI is becoming advanced in music composition which will mean we could start to see more original music to avoid dealing with copyright laws. Humans will listen to output and rework, but will significantly reduce time spent and save money. AI can be plugged into drill writing software to create draft drill. Humans fix and alter drill, but time savings from not doing it all from scratch. It’ll also make it easier to make mid-season changes which could lead to more exciting changes throughout season Prop, costume, and flag design can be done in seconds to minutes by a single person instead of a team Lower ranked corps can now use it to improve designs, strengthen their music books, etc….leveling the playing field more to allow for more ranking shakeups each year Faster and better audition process. AI can do first round listens of audition videos and make first round cuts in near real time. Corps can use AI to identify new markets and individuals interested in supporting drum corp which could expand support base Some judges will be replaced which will reduce the cost of running shows. AI can already analyze music and GE visuals with a level of sophistication that of human or slightly below. In future, 1 GE judge may be human and the other AI. This could lead to more consistent judging and reduce costs of competitions So lots of changes….change is everything….literally. If corps use it right, it’ll significantly lower costs while improving creativity….which could help stabilize the activity financially and enhance competitiveness top to bottom.

Yes yes yes

Glad to see the Mandarins kids landing in good hands.

Crown takes complexity IMO most of the time bc of a combination of: Longest play time for brass General musicality of pieces that require playing with emotion Hard technical passages Exposed sections where can’t hide mistakes easily Fast complex drill That said, other corps have epic brass complexity years too. SCVs high brass last year and BDs in 24 were rippingly great and deserve callouts.

Yup. Congrats to him on retirement. Well deserved!

I really lol’d at your sentence “Bach was the first jazz cat.” I hope BDs show starts with that narration. 🫣🤪

I went searching all through Reddit too. 😆 Pure desperation….ha