I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video]
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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.
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.
How do you complain about regulations, and then insist on more regulations? These seem like two completely orthogonal things to me. One is to prevent unmitigated spam on music platforms. The other corrects your pitch slightly.
> prevent unmitigated spam on music platforms
That's not the true reason. The reason is that some clever people have found out how to earn money with fake musicians. As a musician myself I can tell you, that such operations make the already completely unjust compensation scheme even worse for real musicians. But even if this scam was avoided, we still would suffer from the exploitative and abhorrent compensation scheme imposed by the record monopolists (who simultaneously claim to represent the interests of artists while primarily lining their own pockets).
If you are interested instead whether it was a real artist or just an AI (or a "stunt performer" pretending to be an artist, which includes all people who can't sing in tune without autotune), then you should be as consistent as the food industry. Personally, I'm more interested in the music itself. It's nice to know who played it, but that doesn't change the musical quality.
> or a "stunt performer" pretending to be an artist, which includes all people who can't sing in tune without autotune
Really? Sorry but I don't consider people like that stunt musicians. There's a wide range of human expression to be shared beyond singing technically well. A stunt musician would be someone doing nothing. Like prompting an AI.
Since you're keen on gatekeeping, I'm a musician. My whole family is. You may very well play music, but are you a musician? Your comment is genuinely more offended with auto tune than AI music. I can't imagine working myself to that conclusion, and I think that says a lot about your values, and they're not in line with any musician I know. They're more in line with a developer or A&R
The fellow said "It should be required to include the AI model as a featured artist"; the common means is laws and regulations, like in the food industry.
> They could actually differentiate themselves...
Instead, it will go in exactly the opposite direction: the record monopolists will use AI themselves to further improve their already high margins. They have already secured the technology for this, if you have been following the news about Suno and Udio.
I thought AI work couldn't be copyrighted, so "pretend" might mean "hide".
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.
One recommendation that came up on YouTube music for me was Ella Langley and I had a hell of a time working out whether she was a clanker or not. I think she’s real but there are Ella Langley AI generators now and half the music videos of her songs are clanker morgs.
It’s getting confusing and annoying but country music itself might have to share some of the blame for making itself so homogenous.
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.