Honolulu Airport Plays AI-Generated Island Songs
The tracks play hourly over the airport sound system and draw mixed reactions.
Simon Willison posted a quote from a Civil Beat article stating Honolulu’s airport has started playing 17 island-themed AI-generated songs on rotation according to state transportation spokeswoman Shelly Kunishige. The linked source description says the AI-generated tunes play hourly over the airport sound system and some travelers think they misrepresent local culture. In a separate observation Willison noted generic beach-themed songs at a Hawaiian restaurant that Shazam could not identify.
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First time I've noticed this: I was eating outside at a Hawaiian restaurant and they had music piping into the courtyard - generic songs about being at the beach A little TOO generic... it turned out Shazam could identify none of then Slop.
"Honolulu’s airport has started playing 17 island-themed, AI-generated songs on rotation, according to state transportation spokeswoman Shelly Kunishige." !
@simonw they are playing AI slop fake Hawaiian music at the honolulu airport too right now. everyone here in hawaii is pissed about it.
@simonw It passed beyond detectability for almost all humans back in October. It had also risen from being 1/10 streamed songs nine months previous to that to 1/3. God knows what those numbers are now.
The paper EM linked was written using the previous generation, and people were able to identify AI generated music about half of the time. We have a new survey using the current generation, and 97% of listeners can no longer tell the difference between AI and human created…
@simonw Yay 🤗
@simonw Daniel K. Inouye would never