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Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 5 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

oh we made jwz's blog

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/11/not-just-merely-dead-boys-but-really-most-sincerely-dead-boys/

apparently the singer's last show was at his DNA Lounge

[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

You can't really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though

[–] self@awful.systems 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Chrome and Cleopatra issued a statement that that guy was fired because he sucked anyway. Chrome assured fans it would not be an “AI record.”

The plan was apparently for Hout to record a guide vocal that would then be reskinned with the “fakeass robot A.I. Stiv Bators voice.”

there’s something extra disrespectful about a punk band lying about firing the guy they were planning on exploiting to train a horrid tool their record label insisted would make them more money

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

100% in character for both Cheetah Chrome and especially Cleopatra tho

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

just the worst fucking Chrome fork