{"id":3257,"date":"2021-02-23T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1339905"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:35:32","slug":"evil-chicken-is-my-new-favorite-band-but-they-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=3257","title":{"rendered":"Evil Chicken is my new favorite band \u2014 but they don\u2019t exist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I love making up band names. If you don\u2019t believe it, I once spent an entire evening creating new musical group names for <\/span>folks on Twitter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coming up with funny or catchy monikers is hard.<\/span> But\u2026 what if an AI did all the heavy lifting?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dream no longer. This Twitter bot<\/a> <\/span>not only comes up with new metal band names, but also makes their album names and artwork too.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The algorithm behind this not super complex by today\u2019s standards. The bot uses Open AI\u2019s GPT-2-simple to generate band and album names. For generating album art, it uses the big-sleep library<\/a> that converts texts into images.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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As the headline suggests, Evil Chicken is definitely my favorite non-existent metal band, but I\u2019m also including some of my other top picks.<\/p>\n

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Evil Chicken \u2013 Master of the Beak pic.twitter.com\/EZUjf7Vw06<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 This Band Isn’t Real (@ai_metal_bot) February 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Calcifier \u2013 Land of Rust pic.twitter.com\/VSZ7ioy2L8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 This Band Isn’t Real (@ai_metal_bot) February 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Blood Red Castle (prep your drummer the hell out of some death\/grind metal for the tri-part funeral following the death of your last metal hero’s drummer with many types of harmonies and what not with reggae influences absofuckingluted.mp3 pic.twitter.com\/8kGis35evF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 This Band Isn’t Real (@ai_metal_bot) February 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While this bot uses the big-sleep library to create the album art, I would also like to see OpenAI\u2019s DALL-E image generator<\/a> to drum up some mean metal images.<\/p>\n

Name generation by an AI is common now. However, it\u2019s mostly used by researchers to <\/span>come up with<\/a> <\/span>funny projects<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I\u2019d like to see these experiments hit the real world. While I don\u2019t think musicians would want their band to be named by AI, how about an album? Or a song? Or even just some lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can check out all metal band names and images generated by this bot here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Published February 23, 2021 \u2014 12:35 UTC <\/p>\n

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