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shermantanktop ◴[] No.44492821[source]
The music notation tool space is balkanized in a variety of ways. One of the key splits is between standard music notation and tablature, which is used for guitar and a few other instruments. People are generally on one side or another, and the notation is not even fully compatible - tablature covers information that standard notation doesn't, and vice versa. This covers fingering, articulations, "step on fuzz pedal now," that sort of thing.

The users are different, the music that is notated is different, and for the most part if you are on one side, you don't feel the need to cross over. Multiple efforts have been made (MusicXML, etc.) to unify these two worlds into a superset of information. But the camps are still different.

So what ChatGPT did is actually very interesting. It hallucinated a world in which tab readers would want to use Soundslice. But, largely, my guess is they probably don't....today. In a future world, they might? Especially if Soundslice then enables additional features that make tab readers get more out of the result.

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adrianh ◴[] No.44493264[source]
I don't fully understand your comment, but Soundslice has had first-class support for tablature for more than 10 years now. There's an excellent built-in tab editor, plus importers for various formats. It's just the ASCII tab support that's new.
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kragen ◴[] No.44494746[source]
I wonder if LLMs will stimulate ASCII formats for more things, and whether we should design software in general to be more textual in order to work better with LLMs.
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1. QuercusMax ◴[] No.44501810[source]
I've had AI create ascii-art (Nethack-style) dungeon diagrams when I asked it to write me a D&D adventure. Last time I tried it these dungeon diagrams were completely nonsensical, but that was a few years ago.
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2. kragen ◴[] No.44501933[source]
I think ASCII art in particular is generally a weak point for LLMs; maybe they could do better if they used an image model. Other ASCII syntaxes using matched { } delimiters seem like they would be easier.