The HN poster of this owns an extremely anti-social page btw https://boomerdeathwatch.com/ . Before he claims that "they deserved it", note how the page itself does nothing but make them look like a weirdo lol

I've become more and more convinced that stuff like this is from state actors trying to divide the West or at least cause some kind of chaos.

I actually strongly disagree, I think this is the natural tendency of many losers and there is a disproportionate amount of them on the internet

Yeah a lot of people have failed to internalize a lot of the meta-lessons of current culture wars

"Woke" is the 20 side of myriad 20-80 issues. It cannot accurately be described as "broadly popular."

> there will be actual consequences for this.

Not implausible but what exactly because sometimes when people throw that phrase its just aggrieved cope

I really want to like ai music but none of them seem to be trained on reward models that reward "ambiance" or any sort of interesting sound design (which this paper obviously doesn't even concern), which might be reflective of the people training them not having niche music tastes

Why do you want to like it?

Because there is a shortage of songs I like. I loop the same songs for weeks until I can find a new song

I'm the opposite of you. I don't do songs, I do albums.

And there are just too many albums to go through each week. I'm on Redacted and Orpheus though, pulling the Top 10s each week.

Why not read some music blogs or go to a record store, or talk to your friends about the music they like?

I don't share my friend's music taste and record stores for sure don't have what I like (its usually small soundcloud accounts). Also the things I like about a song are not genre bound, its usually very subtle things that are unsearchable, hence even of the songs I like I usually only like ~30% of the song itself. With a personally tuned reward model I can strictly focus on amplifying the subtleties instead of searching by means of exhausting indirection

The figure on page 5 in [1] is pretty insane

[1] https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash/blob/...

The scifi pov has a good track record as this point, you people gotta be more open minded

whoops lol

Smart fridges are a pathological virus, yes /jk

Even normal fridges are a memetic virus, fridges clearly live in a symbiotic relationship with humans. They make our lives better and in return we create more fridges. If they weren't useful to us, we'd stop making more fridges. Any medieval human who sees a fridge would instantly recognize why it's useful and valuable.

OP is right, anything popular is virus-like. Richard Dawkins invented the word meme for this all the way back in 1976.

Are y'all using any sort of self-distillation similar to https://self-evo.github.io/ to sharpen representations?

Neither do LLMs https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.03502