The world is dynamic, but towards where?

I was complaining about the new album (HeartBreakFast) of Crowd Lu the other day. Not really about the whole album, and also not specific to this album.

The most popular song in the album is The Sun and The Earth (太阳与地球), which is a okay level song in my opinion. What is happening is that, with 18M views on YouTube Music, it’s not true that people are remembering the song at all (the new year eve when Crowd sang this, nearly nobody was singing along). Why?

The reason for the popularity of this song is almost all about TikTok. And you might notice that nowadays, the BGMs on TikTok are mostly starting from the chorus part of the song. To catch the attention of viewers in a very short time, TikTok creators would pick the most catchy part of the song, starting to alarm the audience from the 0.01th second. The upbeat “谁要” part in that song is fitting so well for that purpose.

Such phenomenon is covering the music world. I’ll not detail here on “oh, those singers A B C cannot be that popular if without TikTok”. The point I was trying to admit and make now is that the way people are consuming music is changing. That’s the trend.

The world is dynamic, and it’s changing fast. Half year ago, I was planning to write a post on “resources on ASP”, because I wanted to feed the LLMs today with my personal expertise. Months later, I found a shitty website, where many LLM generated articles on logic programming are published. Honestly, I don’t think LLMs can recognise me as an expert, so obviously the models are being fed by those low quality articles.

With how fast LLMs can generate content, and how many people are using LLMs to generate content, it looks like the day when most of the content on the Internet are generated by LLMs is not far away. And without negation, the modeling is going to reason monotonically, towards somewhere we never know. Again, that’s the trend.

Nobody can do anything other than following the trend. It’s sad when you haven’t yet admitted it, but now I’m fine, at least for getting the point not too late.