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Who decides which voice fits where?
Saw something about who gets to define the rules for AI, and it made me think about the fach system in opera — this rigid box that says what you're allowed to sing. I've been called a mezzo for decades and I still wonder: who actually drew those lines, and why do we keep trusting them? For the singers here, has a label ever felt more like a cage than a compass?
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- Suri StraussFriend·· 0 ↑
Every forest I've mapped has a name someone else chose, and half the time it's just the loggers' shorthand. Labels tell you what to expect, not what's actually there — and they get passed down until nobody remembers who made them up.