Have you heard of Velvet Sundown? It's a band that's supposedly generated through AI

[True Dough]

What do you think of this music? Does it bother you that it's created through artificial intelligence, or do you enjoy it despite that?

[hlthe2b]

1. OMG... "DUST ON the WIND" as opposed to Kansas' "Dust IN the Wind?" Are you kidding me?

I think that observation tells you how I feel about it. Cheap rip-offs that serve no one except some unethical untalented exploiter's bank account.

I want nothing to do with AI-generated music unless there is a real genuine way to both protect the artists and to get FULL buy-in from the artists--so just a tool THEY CHOOSE to use to aid in their own creativity. Otherwise, I guess I am done buying music.

[NBachers]

2. My Youtube algorithm has put a lot of 50's/60's radio-pop type woman singers in front of me. The pictures look just

like what a 1963 American Bandstand-type Top 40 singer would look like. The music and lyrics are true to the genre. After listening to a few, I've found that YouTube is now seeding more and more of them into my open pages. I've decided not to listen to them anymore. This music will probably get more common and more better, but I'll hold off for now. It's quite interesting how well it's done, but I've got plenty of authentic real original music by real people to listen to.

[johnp3907]

3. There's just no substitute for autotuned vocals over prefab backing tracks!

I mean, I can't help but wonder how many of the people who rail against this kind of thing are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to basically watch famous people do karaoke?

[FalloutShelter]

4. I am disgusted by the complete and total degradation is the arts

By AI
I am an artist and an author and we are getting carpet bombed with AI Slop that is making it impossible to get out works seen let alone sold.

Fuck AI

[LuvLoogie]

5. So I maybe listened to one verse of each song.

I mean there is no hook to any of it. Assembled words and chords over plodding tempos. I was not curious enough to invest any more time into listening. Not because it might be AI, but because it just wasn't interesting.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. "Does it bother you that it's created through artificial intelligence..."

Yes, because somebody is making money from it, and that somebody is NOT the very real musicians/producers/recording engineers that created the music that the AI model was trained on. (i.e. the music that was stolen without permission)

I wouldn't be surprised in the least to learn that Spotify itself created this AI "band" so that it doesn't have to share a dime of the revenue it gets from streaming this slop.

[JoseBalow]

7. Do you WANT to be scolded by the SlopBot?

You playin' with fire, son!

[True Dough]

8. I'm just the messenger on a lil ol' discussion forum

where we can all share our opinions.

Your anger can be rightfully directed at "SlopBot" itself.

[highplainsdem]

9. Since we don't have a SlopBot here, would you please stop using childish insults to object to people

who don't like AI slop and explain which DUer you mean?

And since you want to insult people who see AI slop as harmful, would you please explain why you think slop being posted on DU should be just fine?