Metal Archive 2023愚人节整活儿：AI把黑金属开除金属音乐籍

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今年金属档案网的愚人节整活儿是一个论AI给金属乐分类结果把黑金属开除的帖子。全文搬运如下（以及机翻中文）。

MA and AI / 2023-04-01 02:05 金属档案网和人工智能

Hello everyone,
大家好哇，
There are some big changes coming to the way we do things here on MA. I'm sure most of you have noticed the recent rapid advances in AI technology, such as the amazing results that software like ChatGPT and Midjourney can produce. So we've begun to think, could something similar be used for the betterment of MA? One of our main jobs is of course to evaluate bands for inclusion on the site. This is a very time-consuming process, often leaves people dissatisfied (both mods and submitters), and while we do our utmost to reach an impartial consensus on our decisions, the human element means that there is always a degree of subjectivity involved. Would it be possible to use AI technology to develop an entirely unbiased and scientific way of determining if a band is metal?
我们金属档案网的做事方式将发生一些大的变化。我相信，你们大多数人都注意到，最近人工智能技术发展快速，例如，像ChatGPT和Midjourney这样的软件，可以产生惊人的结果。因此，我们开始思考，是否可以用类似的东西来改善金属档案网的状况？我们的主要工作之一当然是评估乐队以纳入网站。这是一个非常耗时的过程，还经常让人不满意（对于修改者和提交者来说都是），虽然我们尽最大努力，想公正地达成决策共识，但人的主
观因素则意味着，总是有一定程度的主观性参与。有没有可能，人工智能技术可以用来开发一种完全无偏见的科学方法，来确定一个乐队是否是金属乐队？

As it turns out, yes. Yes, it is. We've spent the last couple months training an AI algorithm on hundreds and hundreds of songs of every genre and have ended up with a very solid model for predicting whether a band is metal or not to a high degree of accuracy. This means that in the near future, we will be able to evaluate band submissions completely objectively based on sound wave analysis and cold computer logic. For the moment, we will be using this AI model manually to double check the results, but we hope to eventually be able to simply let submitters give a Bandcamp or Spotify link, and the automated system will do the rest!
事实证明，是的。是的，它是。我们在过去的几个月里，对各种流派的数百首歌曲进行了人工智能算法的训练，最终得到了一个非常可靠的模型，可以高度准确地预测一个乐队是否是金属乐队。这意味着，在不久的将来，我们将能够根据声波分析和冷酷的计算机逻辑，完全客观地评估乐队提交的作品。目前，我们将手动使用这个人工智能模型来仔细检查结果，但我们希望最终能够简单地让提交者提供一个Bandcamp或Spotify链接，而自动系统将完成其余的工作。

Now, there is one small issue. Algorithms like this create their own way of "thinking" about things, so to speak, and this can sometimes find patterns and details that escape human beings. As such, one very surprising result about metal subgenres came out of our experiments. See, if we throw, say, doom metal at the model, sure, that's fine. Death metal? No problem. Traditional heavy metal? Of course! It's even quite good at determining if the more borderline genres are predominantly metal or not. But... Black metal? It was quite a shocking discovery, but it does appear that when analyzed scientifically, it turns out that black metal isn't actually metal. I know! We were taken aback, too! We even spent a good amount of time redoing the tests while tweaking the parameters and such, but the results remained very consistent: scientifically speaking, black metal is false.
现在，有一个小问题。像这样的算法创造了他们自己 "思考 "事物的方式，可以说，这有时可以找到人类所不能发现的模式和细节。因此，在我们的实验中，出现了一个非常令人惊讶的关于金属亚流派的结果。你看，如果我们把——比如说，厄运金属——扔到模型里：当然，这很好；死亡金属？没问题；传统重金属？当然可以！它甚至能很好地确定更多的边缘流派是否以金属为主。但是...黑金属？这是一个相当令人震惊的发现，但在科学分析时，它似乎确实发现，黑金属实际上不是金属。我知道! 我们也被吓了一跳! 我们甚至花了大量的时间重新做测试，同时调整权重参数等，但结果仍然非常一致，即：从科学上讲，黑金属是假的。

给乐子人科普下这个开除黑金属的梗怎么来的：因为金属乐受众对于金属乐的流派分类非常讲究。为了研究音乐，他们讲究到了什么程度？你也知道，这个音乐类型很冷门，梗剧的播放量也才按万来算那种。

这一点很容易得到证明，搜索下就可以。中文互联网的搜索很烂，译者自己用的方法仍然是【负责者】索引法。先去用孤岛APP原生那个乐色搜索功能粗筛（你在本文头图看到的就是粗筛的截图。我都觉得索然无味），然后再找几个内容负责者进行二次筛查，这样，你就能稍微逆时间轴搜索到想要的内容。

Now, what shall we do about this? Remove all black metal from the site? Well, it sounded crazy at first, but the more we thought about it... It might actually make sense. MA has always prided itself on its accuracy, and now that it can be scientifically proven that a good number of bands on here aren't metal, it stands to reason that they shouldn't be here at all. It's not completely unprecedented either, since there have been purges of some niche subgenres in the past, though on a much smaller scale. In the end, we think that the opportunity to be 100% consistent and objective in how we do things trumps the inconvenience. Besides, let's face it, I think deep down we all know that black "metal" has always been the worst subgenre. This move should also cut down on at least 70% of band-related drama on the site. Overall, I think we can consider this a win-win.
现在，我们应该怎么做呢？从网站上删除所有黑金属？嗯，一开始听起来很疯狂，但我们越想越觉得...... 它实际上可能是有意义的。金属档案网一直以它的准确性为荣，而现在它可以被科学地证明，这里的很多乐队都不是金属乐队，按理说他们根本就不应该在这里。这也不是完全没有先例，因为过去也有对一些小众次类型的清除，尽管规模要小得多。最后，我们认为，在我们做事的过程中保持100%的一致性和客观性的机会胜过了不便。此外，让我们面对现实吧，我想在内心深处我们都知道，黑 "金属 "一直是最糟糕的亚流派。此举也应该减少网站上至少70%的与乐队有关的闹剧。总的来说，我认为我们可以认为这是一个双赢。

This is why, in the next few days, we will begin to remove BM bands from the site. This will be a gradual effort since every band needs to be evaluated again. Of course, many black metal bands also incorporate elements from the true metal genres in their sound, and these will be allowed to remain if they are determined to be predominantly metal. This way, you can at least rest assured that the better bands in the genre will stay on MA.
这就是为什么，在接下来的几天里，我们将开始从网站上删除黑金属乐队。这将是一个渐进的努力，因为每个乐队都需要被重新评估。当然，许多黑金属乐队其实也在他们的声音中融入了真正的金属流派的元素，如果他们被确定为以金属为主，这些乐队将被允许保留。这样，你至少可以放心，该流派中较好的乐队仍会留在金属档案网上。

Thank you for your comprehension, and we hope this new technology and classification can usher in a new age of enlightenment for the metal community as a whole.
谢谢你的理解，我们希望这种新的技术和分类能够让整个金属社区迎来一个新的启蒙时代。
-HellBlazer 网站管理员

哔哩哔哩@猫在墙中 基于www.DeepL.com/Translator（免费版）翻译并修改

译者没在网易云申请专栏作者，就放碧站来，反正金属圈太小众了，这种小搬小运，没人看也没人在乎，不会什么意义——译者哪敢贪金属大厂们在微信筚路蓝缕苦心孤诣经营公众号的及天之功啊...心里有点碧数，不去网易云丢人现眼了罢。微信？你就当在微信运营公众号是我的达摩克里斯之剑吧，我就是不过去，不怕它掉下来砍我。

附1：金属档案网2022愚人节整活儿

Genre policy update / 2022-04-01 01:20

You know, every year I think nobody will be fooled by the joke, and yet... Some of you always provide some amusement. No, we're not really getting rid of genres, that would be really silly. Happy April Fools.

去年的愚人节玩笑就声称要把一些金属流派开除出去...好家伙，今年的玩笑把这个坑填上/包袱捡回来了，而且借的是人工智能的手。

附2：金属档案网2021愚人节整活儿

前年2021的整活儿是把一些金属乐队的大头贴换成猫猫。网址今年仍然可用，不过也就那个意思罢了，小打小闹。https://cats.metal-archives.com/

Wow, that little joke blew up, huh? Cool to see so many people enjoying the feline band pictures. So much so that our traffic more than doubled, and the server had a hard time keeping up. Sorry about the slowness!（指管理员准备在愚人节整活儿，但是换头像网站和标题为猫的帖子2021-04-02 00:38才公开。）
Thanks to Black Metal Cats Twitter, sadanduseless.com, various cat pic subreddits, and many, many other random sources from Google Image Search for the material.
Happy April Fools to all, and by general demand, if you want to keep browsing MA with cats instead of humans... Now you can!