Death by Autotune (Day 429)

Watched a video called "Modern Music's Death by Autotune" by Rick Beato.

What is Autotune? For those who record music, especially vocal, may already know. It is a tool to edit the recorded voice to a specific note, so the vocals will always have the correct pitch. Instead of repeatedly record until the pitch is perfect, sound engineers can edit the vocals to the right pitch during post production. It makes being a "recording artist" way easier than before--anybody can "sing" in-tune ALL the time! Autotune has real-time effects processing, too, but it is trickier to use in live performances.

While Autotune fine-tunes vocals to make them sound perfect, the filters for video make people look picture-perfect in photos and videos. Smoothing out the skin texture and tones, enlarging eyes, making chins look sharper, and many other real-time effects that make a person look photogenic in real-time! It makes it impossible to trust what we see on screen anymore.

Voice-print and deep-fake technologies bring even more deceptions to what we hear and see.

Will online presence eventually become "avatar-like"--a visual representation of a person instead of the real self?