MMMSlop! Learning About GenAI By Making Music No One Wants

Four years into the Age of the Mainstream LLM, many of us still lack a sufficient foundational understanding of generative AI. One path to that understanding is use of local and/or lower-level tools that expose more of AI’s guts. But a homelab install of OpenClaw could get you doxxed, fired, divorced, and arrested – all by lunchtime. You know what never hurt nobody (other than musicians, anyway)? Music. In this brief workshop, we’ll meet some new friends, possibly install some new software, and use genAI-based music generation to learn a bit about the basics of AI implementations generally. Heck, we might even vibe-compose us a fake George Jones song about that one woeful morning we installed OpenClaw