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Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music

by ghostpepper on 1/29/25, 3:22 AM with 6 comments

by jameskilton on 1/29/25, 12:34 PM
Sacred? Christmas music is sacred? Popular Christmas music is awful. Every major artist seems obligated to do their Christmas renditions and the songs are vapid or bad remakes of already bad songs.
Seriously. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer praises bullying. That song needs to die a thousand deaths and never show up again.
AI may actually make better Christmas music than the slop we are already subjected to every single year.
by a_shovel on 1/29/25, 4:03 AM
This last Christmas season, my dad and I wanted some classic Christmas music on the TV, so we checked out Youtube for one of those multi-hour videos. We ended up choosing which video to play based on which AI-generated cozy Christmas cabin had the most coherent architecture. One of them had the snow piling up inside the cabin.
We eventually found one that looked okay, but I didn't see any visuals that didn't look generated. Surely there are at least a few vintage public-domain paintings of Christmas trees or similar that they could have bumped up the saturation on and done a slow pan over.
by quantified on 1/29/25, 4:12 AM
From Dec 25, 2024. It came for Christmas music and will come back again.
by Yizahi on 1/29/25, 2:15 PM
It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of '29
Happy New Year, happy New Year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't, we might as well lay down and die
You and I
by euroderf on 1/30/25, 12:12 PM
"Christmas with the Rat Pack" is a winner. No slop just Vegas baby