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Companies pay good money to panels of potential customers to hear their needs and wants. This is free market research!





But they wouldn't have wanted this particular thing if the AI hadn't told them to.

You mean they didn't want infinite free personalized guitar practice lessons they can play along with?

Clearly the users are already using ChatGPT for generating some guitar practice, as it is basically infinite free personalized lessons. For practicing they do want to be able hear it to play along at variable speed, maybe create slight variations etc.

Soundslice is a service that does exactly that. Except that before people used to have sheet music as the source. I know way back when I had guitar aspirations, people exchanged binders of photocopied sheet music.

Now they could have asked ChatGPT to output an svg of the thing as sheet music (it does, I tested). Soundslice could have done this behind the scenes as a half hour quick and dirty fix while developing a better and more cost effective alternative.

Look, if at the turn of the century you were a blacksmith living of changing horseshoes, and you suddenly have people mistakenly showing up for a tire change on their car, are you going to blame the villagers that keep sending them your way, or open a tire change service? We know who came out on top.




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