AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it?

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• Corelli_III@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  why do these unimaginative losers keep up with the “slop is here to stay” rhetoric?

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    Because snake oil as a general thing is here to stay. In fact, it’s never been more convincing to morons and rubes alike.

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Human made music is here to stay too

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  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bandcamp is my still primary new music source, and I've uninstalled my modded Spotify apps over AI. I'm just not gonna deal with it.

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I buy what i can afford on bandcamp and pirate the rest. All my music are stored locally and i play them on musicolet

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Definitely.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A band of four guys with shaggy hair released two albums’ worth of generic psych-rock songs back-to-back. The songs ended up on Spotify users’ Discover Weekly feeds, as well as on third-party playlists boasting hundreds of thousands of followers. Within a few weeks, the band’s music had garnered millions of streams — except the band wasn’t real. It was a “synthetic music project” created using artificial intelligence.

  The big problem is the people doing this are also gaming the algorithm to get on those “discover” feeds. You think someone that uses bots to fake a band wouldn’t use bots to inflate play count and make it look like they’re popular?

  If companies don’t take a stand, they’re gonna end up just burning bandwidth so bots can listen to bots and real humans move on to a platform not filled with slop.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even if the traffic was inflated by bots, there were many users that enjoyed the content itself. What that tells you is that people don’t have an inherent problem with the music, they just want transparancy around it.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We don’t know that.

      Now, I don’t use Spotify, but what I use allows me to pick specific songs, but it defaults to “shuffle”. Sometimes it’s stuff I listen to, sometimes it’s new.

      I’m not aware of anything showing a breakdown of intentional listens and popping up on “shuffle”.

      From a label perspective, AI is the best kind of band because it will do whatever you say, it will never refuse to do anything out of integrity. So it seems a reasonable assumption that what they’re aiming for is “elevator music” something innocuous enough that people won’t hit skip.

      If it’s too good, people look into it, discover it’s AI, and stop caring about it.

      Like the vast majority of AI stuff, it might work short term, but that’s only a novelty and those wear off. If people could opt out of AI music, the overwhelming amount of people would take the time to do so.

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• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No.

  The profit of slop will drive them to new and higher levels of enshitification.

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