Probable ‘AI’ Artist Gaining Spotify Traction

Ugh I hate this timeline

 

i gotta figure out how to port my playlists and such over to apple music

 

As a longtime casual music creator, while I *painfully* acknowledge that a lot of people don't give a shit if the music they listen to was "created" by some lazy, talentless rando who just typed a couple sentences into Suno (probably by someone at Spotify themselves so they don't have to pay anyone), music that was created by stealing/training it on the music of countless artists who actually bled for their work, I have to imagine there's just as many people if not more who do care.

When will the moment come when there's some serious push-back? I've very begrudgingly tolerated Spotify despite a lot of their stupid shit because of the baggage I have with them after using them for over a decade now, but if there was a comparable streaming service which took this serious I would finally make the jump.

Does Apple or anyone take this more seriously, giving people the option to switch off and block detected AI music?

*edit - I do see/read that Deezer at least tags AI music as such. I'm going to look into them.*

As an aside, why aren't we at a point where everyone can agree that the creators of AI music (Like The Velvet Sundown) should be required to disclose this? That should be the bare minimum, especially if someone can rake in a fulltime income from pressing a few buttons like this.

 

John Oliver just did a whole dive on this type of thing, and referenced this exact band. It made me so depressed. Lol.

 

I recently shared an album I found on Spotify in the Jazz thread, that I really liked at first, but then digging into their Spotify page, they only started releasing music on Spotify in 2024, and since then have put up like 20 albums, all with very non-descript and fuzzy track names. No artist info in the bio page whatsoever, and when you Googled the name nothing came up anywhere. Has to be AI-generated jazz music; was pissed to find out.

 

This sucks.

 

won’t be listening, but i’m sure it’s bad

 

This guy being the next tech-bro to turn heel as a Bond villain/MAGA god has me finally wanting to try Apple Music. Anyone have any recs on importing from Spotify ?

 

Well put. AI “art” hardly makes sense to me. It’s quick and easy, but it’s shallow. Part of art is knowing you’re seeing someone’s expression in some form, sound, visual, touch, etc. When it’s created by a machine, it loses the one thing that makes art so unique — the human element, the human expression. Nothing is truly unique with AI art because it’s an amalgamation of everyone else’s stuff, and not in an experienced way like an artist carries all their influences with them, but in a thieving, stolen way.

I get almost an uncanny valley feeling from it. It’s familiar, but it’s unnatural. It shouldn’t be.

There is a place for it, as I’m not naive it’s a tool that will be used, but it should be cordoned off in its own space.

Art has always been a tough gig for the majority who pursue it. The infiltration of AI feels like a cheap shot to artists. It crosses the line from the stereotypical starving artist to making them become obsolete in an underhanded way. It is wrong at a fundamental level to me as someone who makes 0 art and has none creativity. Seeing the people who do have their gift and passion drained from them is not right.

 

Insightful breakdown from Rick Beato here. I don't see how we stop this train anytime soon and it's only going to get worse. Things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast.

So It Begins...Is This A Real Band Or AI?

 

I've been using Deezer for several years for their lossless streaming and I couldn't recommend it enough. I wasn't aware of the AI tagging, but that's great to hear.

 

I moved to Tidal a few years ago when Spotify sucked just a little less than they do now and have been very happy. There's only been a few really random things I haven't been able to find, usually stand-up comedy if I'm being honest.