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> Lyrics from “Mitosis”

> Co-written by a language model and OpenAI researchers

Researchers co-wrote all the lyrics. This is one place where reading the fine print matters. Super impressive stuff, but I also wonder what had to be tweaked.

Just know that: much of the stuff OpenAI and other research orgs put out (including mine) are heavily cherry-picked. Most of the time its pumps out gibberish, but in the off chance it doesn't it gets used as marketing material.

monkey writing shakespeare

There is a huge chasm between more monkeys than atoms in the universe typing scripts unseen and a bunch of GPUs generating a few hundred samples from which researchers can cherry-pick.

All you have to do is click through to see all the samples and it becomes clear how incredibly cherry-picked the ones on the front page are. It is a cool project but it is very clear how much work this technology will need before it is useful in any application.

Cherry-picking is exactly what artists do best. They will want this technology as a new tool in their toolbox. I expect some future genre of music using it's successor (like autotune).

That part of the lyrics was actually the prompt from Heewoo :)