I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video]

[spicyusername]

I have no problem with AI music, but it's absolutely crazy to let labels pretend they're real people.

It should be required to include the AI model as a featured artist. Or maybe it's labeled like DJs, where the prompter is the artist.

As an aside, I think you're going to see a real resurgence of live music that let real artists showcase their real skills.

[kgwxd]

That would require people go outside, and pay for stuff. No one want to go outside, and no one can afford anything.

[m463]

> let labels pretend they're real people

I thought AI work couldn't be copyrighted, so "pretend" might mean "hide".

[Rochus]

Still more laws and regulations. We're already drowning in regulations.

If you start to require such things, then you should also require that labels declare whether the artist indeed sung him/herself, and whether it was their real voice or some autotuned stuff.

[jaapz]

If AI is able to write songs that are listened to so much, maybe pop music has just become too generic and derivative?

[schiffern]

Per the video it seems the songs are not being listened to so much, but rather artificially boosted by fake traffic and/or (less likely imo) Spotify itself.

[thm]

It's bots listening to bots.

[bogzz]

It is utterly unbelievable to me that these platforms haven't done anything about generated content yet.

Hell, a music streaming company could make bank with simply a draconian, human-enforced ban on slop. (I understand it's not a simple problem, but there doesn't even seem to be an attempt at fixing it).

I was a Spotify user for 5 years and a Duolingo paid user for 3 years. When I got recommended slop in a random playlist twice, I unsubscribed and have no intention of ever returning. I cancelled my Duolingo subscription as soon as the imbecile CEO made a big stink about replacing workers with LLMs.

Fuck those companies, we shouldn't even give them a chance at rehabilitation.

[firmretention]

A lot of these platforms are actually generating the content themselves to stick into playlists so that when users listen to them, they get 100% of the royalties.

[weare138]

If you are sick of AI music just start stealing it. AI generated media is not copyrightable. The people shoveling all this AI music can't claim ownership of it. It's generated from models trained on copyrighted content. Also wholly generated media is not covered under copyright laws to begin with if a human wasn't involved in it's creation.

So just start reposting and monetizing music from AI generated 'artists. Undermine it's value and the market for it. Eventually the time and cost of producing it would be more than the profits someone could generate monetizing it. Then people will stop wasting their time on it.

[lenkite]

I am guessing this is the real reason they are pretending to be "real" artists - so they can claim ownership of it.

[ducktastic]

I wonder if Spotify's AI Artist push is to break into markets usually defaulted to Muzak Company