Consumers Prefer AI Music Until They're Told It's AI

I’m listening to more and more AI music on Spotify. It’s got little depth but it’s very catch on the surface.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is a very quick race to the bottom and we will long for real music written by real people. At least some of us will.

Streaming services are SO incentivized to play AI music they create themselves. No need to pay pesky royalties. It’s akin to LLMs taking over search…Google gets to keep users on their property where the can continue to show ads.

Thank goodness my 2nd gen iPod still holds a charge and has all the MP3’s I’ve ripped from my cds.

If you market bad stuff, you can get people to consume it. And by market, I mean put it in front of people often enough that they have no choice but to consume it..

That does not mean bad-stuff has become good-stuff.

I think a problem with AI generated stuff is that it is the stuff targeted at a consumers. I don't want stuff targeted at me. I want stuff targeted at the creator themselves. I mean, I want stuff that created by someone who likes their own creation. And AI can never do that because AI cannot "like". This is not exclusive to AI. If a person creates something just for the sake of money, then I am not going to give the material my attention.

With a human, you never know. But with AI, you know for sure that the material has been created to push your buttons.

I won't ever listen to AI music, because there is no human soul behind it. It's my choice, I have made it.

I will listen to worse music if a human has written it, performing it.

You can listen to all sorts of great musicians on Spotify, but why do you go to live performances of real artists?

The only AI 'art' I am open to using are AI-gen images for illustrating blog posts, etc., when the illustrations are not central or key to the post.

Isn't there always an undiscerning majority? You can get people to prefer Justin Bieber/Miley Cyrus music or whatever's being marketed in a given era. But hopefully that doesn't change the direction of how all music is made.

People will accept whatever garbage is played, and they will love it and buy it because they need to stay 'current and popular'.