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I suspect this is some trick somewhere with purchased views or something. Not that I'm against AI music. I love the various lo-fi / cyberpunk / etc. AI youtube channels. I also enjoy my own suno music. Overall, I'd say AI music dominates my listening these days.

It just seems unusual that a lot of people like the same thing. Even the channels on Youtube that I listen to are so prolific (people generate a large amount of music and just stick it in there) that I never go look for a particular track or anything. And there are so many of them that each one only gets a few thousand views.

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It just seems unusual that a lot of people like the same thing.

The same thing happens with non-AI music too. Artists you've never heard of have songs that suddenly become viral.

Yeah, there's this dude, haven't heard anything from him in a long time, but it was somebody that I used to know...

That's true, but I've noticed that AI text content is very prompter-focused. Someone once described them as dreams - more meaningful to the dreamer than to anyone who has to listen to them narrated. Perhaps it's just inherent to the fact that textual content is rarely viral at that length. It's a base-rate issue.

Have you ever been to a live rock show and felt exhilarated during it, feeling connected to the crowd and the musicians and the music? AI won't replace that, and I feel bad for people who won't get to experience it because "AI is good enough".

Not the person you're replying to but each have their time and place. When I have a lo fi playlist on I don't expect to feel exhilarated, connected to the crowd and the musicians.

I have. It's exhilarating. The feeling of involved in the crowd during a great live performance by excellent musicians is one of the best things I've ever experienced.

But I've also seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gMX_hR-RoM

The people in the crowd are all just kind of standing around watching robots. It doesn't look very exhilarating to me.

I've been in deader crowds than that with a live band on a stage: At least they didn't scatter.

(I'll do it again, too.)

It kinda makes sense AI music is becoming so popular. We (I'm a suno guy too) are literally providing constant feedback to the models over what they like and don't like.

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