They’re mascots for voice banks used in various voice synthesizers. (Not really AI and have been around a lot longer than the current trend of slapping that label on everything)
Miku is kind of the OG for a program called vocaloid, which is a proprietary piece of software.
Teto started off as a voice bank in UTUA a free software, but since she’s gotten a release with synth V which is another proprietary voice synthesizer program.
Anyone can use them to voice a song and use them to say anything, but they’ve sort of developed personalities by association with what songs using them have gotten popular.
The joke here being that a lot of (recent) popular songs using Teto are fairly existential, self deprecating, or otherwise speaking to internal misery. Where as a lot of notable Miku songs tend to be a bit more silly and light hearted. specifically, the comic is referencing the song “Miku” by Anamanaguchi. The teto here would be more in references to things like “ MINIMUM RAGE”, “ ライアーダンサー” (liar dance), or “ROT FOR CLOUT”.
afaik synthV does use AI (machine learning), but i think most people are ok with it since it was ethically sourced, everyone involved knew what was going on, and it's only actually used to make the voice sound a bit more natural, not for actually creating anything
Yah they used machine learning but that’s not really AI, or at least not “generative” AI which is what people associate the term with at this point.
Saying it’s AI gives the impression that it’s just a prompt and output system, as supposed to… well closer to the virtual instruments that get used in DAWs.
Machine learning is a subset of AI, which encompassed many things over the years. It's just that the public are more familiar with the current marketing term, since AI was never in mainstream before.
Hatsune Miku (blue) and Kasane Teto (red). They're vocaloids, effectively AI 'singers', you run a program, give them lyrics/song notes and they'll sing them. There's other vocaloids, but these are the top 2 most popular.
Not sure the point of the comic, unless it's about Teto's character being semi-vague (their official gender is 'chimera' and they're the LGBTQ+ analogue character).
Basically, they (technically) are whatever you want them to be? They're usually assumed as a she, but ultimately it's up to personal interpretation whether they're cross/trans or he/she. As I mentioned, Teto is the LBGTQ+ inclusion character, which is why their gender is 'chimera' as in, 'a mix'.
I agree about the term used being based af, but it's also confusing because they're typically portrayed as a 'she', but you'll easily find stuff where they're a futa, femboy, dommy pegger, etc. Just that ambiguous a character.
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Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 193d
Who are the people with the colorful hair
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 50 pts · 193d
They’re mascots for voice banks used in various voice synthesizers. (Not really AI and have been around a lot longer than the current trend of slapping that label on everything)
Miku is kind of the OG for a program called vocaloid, which is a proprietary piece of software.
Teto started off as a voice bank in UTUA a free software, but since she’s gotten a release with synth V which is another proprietary voice synthesizer program.
Anyone can use them to voice a song and use them to say anything, but they’ve sort of developed personalities by association with what songs using them have gotten popular.
The joke here being that a lot of (recent) popular songs using Teto are fairly existential, self deprecating, or otherwise speaking to internal misery. Where as a lot of notable Miku songs tend to be a bit more silly and light hearted. specifically, the comic is referencing the song “Miku” by Anamanaguchi. The teto here would be more in references to things like “ MINIMUM RAGE”, “ ライアーダンサー” (liar dance), or “ROT FOR CLOUT”.
festnt@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 193d
afaik synthV does use AI (machine learning), but i think most people are ok with it since it was ethically sourced, everyone involved knew what was going on, and it's only actually used to make the voice sound a bit more natural, not for actually creating anything
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 193d
Yah they used machine learning but that’s not really AI, or at least not “generative” AI which is what people associate the term with at this point.
Saying it’s AI gives the impression that it’s just a prompt and output system, as supposed to… well closer to the virtual instruments that get used in DAWs.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 10 pts · 193d
Back in the 50s AI meant a binary classification perceptron, but kids these days think AI is a new term.
example@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 193d
all ML gets sold as AI nowadays. unfortunately that fight is long lost to marketing people.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 192d
Machine learning is a subset of AI, which encompassed many things over the years. It's just that the public are more familiar with the current marketing term, since AI was never in mainstream before.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 192d
by "long", i assume you mean decades
nialv7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
人マニア
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 193d
Hatsune Miku (blue) and Kasane Teto (red). They're vocaloids, effectively AI 'singers', you run a program, give them lyrics/song notes and they'll sing them. There's other vocaloids, but these are the top 2 most popular.
Not sure the point of the comic, unless it's about Teto's character being semi-vague (their official gender is 'chimera' and they're the LGBTQ+ analogue character).
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 193d
🤓"erm acthumally kasane teto is a utauloid not a vocaloid"
she was made as a joke fake vocaloid as a joke but people actually really liked her
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 193d
Thanks, I knew she started as a fan creation, never knew there were other types. I thought she was just made official after everyone loved her.
Are the blonde twins the same or were they official when created?
mapleseedfall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 192d
Blode twins are official official
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 193d
BRUH I just saw the VocaloidXPokémon music video and at 1:50 you see Teto with a Sudowudo 😂
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 193d
I don’t know what that means but sounds like a cool and vaguely ominous gender to be
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 193d
Basically, they (technically) are whatever you want them to be? They're usually assumed as a she, but ultimately it's up to personal interpretation whether they're cross/trans or he/she. As I mentioned, Teto is the LBGTQ+ inclusion character, which is why their gender is 'chimera' as in, 'a mix'.
I agree about the term used being based af, but it's also confusing because they're typically portrayed as a 'she', but you'll easily find stuff where they're a futa, femboy, dommy pegger, etc. Just that ambiguous a character.
kogasa@programming.dev · 1 pts · 193d
It's evocative, it gets the people going
attero@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 193d
There's a better measure for teto: Birdbrain cover ranking by how powerful the first "Fuck" is. https://bsky.app/profile/nocallia.bsky.social/post/3lx3jjjvkrs2q
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 192d
you need a bluesky account just to view a post? ☹️
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
I can see it fine, without an account. Could be that they're testing this limitation, which would be pretty bad.
You might be able to see the post in an incognito tab.
ashestoashes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 192d
i thought this was a birdbrain reference anyway, specifically the aaaaaaaa, my penis part
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 193d
what is the joke is for neru?
festnt@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 193d
she doesn't answer, she's too distracted by the phone