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AI-generated music can be acceptable in certain contexts, such as white noise for coding, running, or working out, where the primary goal is background ambiance rather than active listening.

However, AI-generated fake podcasts are a different story—they're often frustrating and a waste of people's time.

Unfortunately, platforms like Apple Podcasts and Spotify are increasingly populated with these spammy, AI-created podcasts. For those interested, here's a small subset (4,000+) of such AI-generated fake podcasts available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fak....

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Given how overzealous Youtube can be around copyright strikes, I also wouldn't be surprised if AI became the de-facto standard for background music on YT vids.

To your point, I actually used to run CPU Bach (a 3DO game that tried to procedurally generate contrapuntal classical music) as a good background music generator while studying as a kid. Very few people remember it or the 3DO for that matter but it was quite impressive for its time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.P.U._Bach

https://youtu.be/cW7c43N3pr4?t=123

> Given how overzealous Youtube can be around copyright strikes, I also wouldn't be surprised if AI became the de-facto standard for background music on YT vids.

The latest grift is posting AI "covers" of real songs to farm SEO hits while evading copyright strikes, which results in fever dreams like this:

https://x.com/Karbonicc/status/1864360384884310481

Not to me.

I’d rather have human created music, even when it is background music and I’m doing a primary activity that needs focus.

In other contexts, where the stakes are even lower, such as elevator music or on-hold call music AI gen music will probably have less people sneer at it.

Lower stakes for the management maybe, but any time I'm a captive audience, I feel a strong urge to smash speakers and displays.

What about human created music that's AI assisted?

>AI-generated music can be acceptable

But not at the 10 bucks or whatever they charge now

"This is Earth Radio. And now, Human Music:"

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