• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      21 hours ago

      Because AI boosters convinced people that AI centrism is moderate AI usage, and you want to be a centrist, because both Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker are bad (yes, this is the example they’re using), and everyone needs to find the golden middle road, or else!

  • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    One of the ideas of a market research survey like these is to check if there is market demand for a given addition to a product. It does not mean they want to add it, i means they want to add it if user want it added.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been using Tenacity for a while now. Audacity has become problematic. But honestly, I don’t do too much audio editing. Just some clipping and noise removal.

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    303·
    2 days ago

    I answered this question with Other: You should be ashamed for even asking this question.

  • Eiri@lemmy.caEnglish
    414·
    2 days ago

    That survey sounds more like they’re thinking about asking an MCP API to it. That is, an AI assistant could be connected to send calls to perform tasks through Audacity without needing OpenClaw-like full computer access.

    One use case I can imagine is, an indie game developer has a recording they want to use but it’s noisy and they’re bad at sound editing so they ask an AI to do something about it. The AI sees an exposed Audacity MCP server and goes to town.

    I guess it could work?

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, implementing an API to enable control over software functions for AI agents is not a big bad evil guy move.

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
      210·
      2 days ago

      Could, yeah, but never should. Hope that hypothetical indie game developer gets banned from stores.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        I could see that argument for using AI to generate content, but cleaning human-generated content? Once you go down that road you call into question a lot of common tools in creative software.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      Yes, but FOSS project leaders are falling for genAI propaganda left and right, or at worst trying to chase OpenAI/Anthropic money.

    • guy_threepwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      2 days ago

      And there is already a fork called Tenacity after the controversy around telemetry back in 2021. I could imagine they would also be unlikely to implement any changes involving AI

      • defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zipEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        My only problem with Tenacity is that it’s outdated and doesn’t have the new effects (compressor and limiter) that I use regularly.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        I heard about Tenacity, but while it says it supports macOS, it doesn’t actually run. If they get that sorted, I’ll switch us. My wife uses Audacity more than I do, and she hates AI.

        I don’t mind AI for some things, but it has no place in the arts.

  • iatenine@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Seems like an indication they wanna know what the users want to do but it’d be nice to be able to say “yes” to the non generative uses only

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      The company developing audacity have done similar surveys for other software. No matter the result, they always add some version of it. I love the main UX designer’s philosophy, he hasto done miracles with other stale products. But the company is squarely pro-AI oriented.

  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    23 hours ago

    Seems like they are asking how loudly they should announce the addition of AI to their software. If the survey comes back positive they’ll shout Audio Assistant Support from the rooftops, if nobody wants it they’ll put it in anyway, but it will be a buried feature in the bottom of an obscure update note ‘AAS added to collect data to enhance user workflow and customize UX’.

  • paranoia@feddit.dkEnglish
    1532·
    2 days ago

    I don’t see the problem. There are many ways that it could be useful, particularly with editing files.

      • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
        815·
        2 days ago

        Automating menial labor can still be good. Doesn’t mean you will be more productive though since menial labor can give you breaks and time to think and familiarize. But we shouldn’t put menial labor on a pedestal or make it morally desirable.

    • carrylex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      2 days ago

      “Hey Alexa please lower the volume of this file because I’m too retarded to use the basic functions of this app”

      Whats next? AI integration into MS paint because people are too stupid to draw a rectangle?

    • T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      69·
      2 days ago

      Same here. If they add an MCP interface, that could potentiallly enable interoperability with whatever the hell you want. Maybe a web interface or a CLI.

      Edit: to be clear, you can speak MCP without being an LLM. I think MCP integrations are one of the best things to come out of the LLM craze.