Rob

On some level I'm darkly impressed by the AI Bros and companies.

They've managed to convince people that their taking of all the content, regardless of laws that the rest of us should follow, and then selling it back to us is not only a good thing, but an inevitable thing that must happen, and if you aren't onboard with giving Rich People more money then you are wrong.

TIL that VCV Rack can host VST plugins!

You have to have the paid version (already did, wanted to try a clone of a real Befaco module) and it costs an extra $30 on top for the modules but once again I can drown my signal in Blackhole based reverb so it was 100% worth it 🥳

(Side note : I have too many VST installed 😭)

One thing I rarely see when it comes to the discussion around "LLM AI" is that all people are doing is giving yet more money and power to a small group of already rich people.

I'd go so far as to argue that by using their tools you are indirectly working for them (and paying for the privilege) as every user makes their product look better and thus worth more.

Maybe it all crashes; they'll get out rich still.
Or maybe it doesn't, the price goes up, and we've turned our thinking over to them.

LLM AI is the gentrification of human existence.