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Spotify Recommending A.I. Generated Music

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  1. Melody Bot May 5, 2024
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    Spotify has been recommending “A.I. generated music” to some users:

    My favorite example of this is AI music spreading across on Spotify right now. A user on X this week spotted an Artist page called Obscurest Vinyl that was promoted by Spotify’s Discovery Weekly.

    The story behind the page is interesting. Obscurest Vinyl started as a Facebook page that would photoshop fake album covers for classic records that didn’t exist. The page recently shifted into posting AI songs to go with the fake album covers. As one commenter noted, you can tell the songs are AI because most of them feature bass and drum parts that don’t repeat in any discernible pattern. The account also regularly fights with users on Instagram who gripe about it using AI.

    Look, I think songs titled things like, “I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Again” are, honestly, pretty funny, AI or not. But they’re being uploaded to Apple Music and Spotify, which is where the snake starts to eat its own tail. Popular AI music generators like Suno clearly have datasets that include at least some copyrighted material (likely a lot). Which means, in this instance, Spotify is promoting and monetizing an account using an AI likely trained on the music that’s been uploaded to their platform that they don’t actually pay enough to support the creation of. And this is happening across every corner of the web right now.

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  2. AlwaysEvolving21 May 6, 2024
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    Here we go…
     
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  3. Richard May 6, 2024
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    I had no idea about Suno. Holy moly.
     
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  4. CyberInferno May 6, 2024
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    This saddens me so much. I'm burning down datacenters if this means the death of artists and live music other than Taylor Swift and mega superstars. There are emotions that can just only be evoked from live music...
     
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  6. rbf737 May 6, 2024
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    Hard to be anything but depressed by this.

    I wasn't familiar with Suno and checked out a few of the most popular sample tracks. The vocals still sound pretty bad and artificial. What surprised me was how awkward the song structures were. Maybe that's a product of their "anyone can write a song now" promise.

    Like AI art, it's not something anyone needs. Why can't we focus AI exclusively on medical advances/things that matter.
     
  7. AlwaysEvolving21 May 6, 2024
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    Because they don't have to pay other people $$$$$$ for their creativity/product. I can totally see movies/TV Shows/Commercials using AI to generate soundtracks/jingles so they don't have to mess with labels.

    I work in the Workforce Development sector and I can tell you AI is going to used a lot. Mainly for data and grant purposes though. There's already career exploration/development companies who implement AI into platforms and sell their platform to companies in the Workforce Development sector and based on my experience, it's not worth it. They have to be careful with the way it gets used though because Workforce Development is traditionally relationship and community driven.
     
  8. Raku May 6, 2024
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    Not just Suno, but Udio and others...

    Oddly enough I had YouTube recommend me a video on this subject the other day:
     
  9. benschuyler May 7, 2024
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    Bleak as hell