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highplainsdem

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4. And btw, what you wrote about AI being used at all levels of the music industry "for a long time" is wrong and
Wed Jan 14, 2026, 06:28 PM
Jan 14

Last edited Wed Jan 14, 2026, 07:46 PM - Edit history (1)

very misleading.

Generative AI, the type you used unfortunately to generate a song you want others to hear, has been around only a couple of years, with the two most popular AI music generators becoming available in the spring of 2024. Since then the people using them, none of whom should have been using them, have flooded music platforms with AI slop. Deezer alone has been getting more than 50,000 AI-generated tracks PER DAY.

YouTube is flooded with that crap, too.

Seriously, if you are a musician - as your mentioning rearrarranging an AI tune for real musicians suggests you might be - please steer clear of generative AI, for your sake and others'. There is a very strong backlash against the exploitation and fraud that is generative AI. I can't imagine real musicians wanting to play something written by genAI, or real music lovers wanting to hear it. If you try springing something AI generated on real musicians and music lovers, don't be surprised if they walk out or let you know in no uncertain terms what they think of genAI.

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Good for them!!!!! SheltieLover Jan 14 #1
I wish them well. It is fraught. Bluetus Jan 14 #2
Because those tools are trained illegally on stolen intellectual property, any use of them is unethical highplainsdem Jan 14 #3
And btw, what you wrote about AI being used at all levels of the music industry "for a long time" is wrong and highplainsdem Jan 14 #4
By "long time" I mean 5+ years Bluetus Jan 14 #10
I don't believe that AI music taking over is inevitable - that's propaganda from the AI companies. And highplainsdem Jan 15 #11
Just to be clear, my use of the AI material Bluetus Jan 15 #15
You're still likely to end up encouraging some of those people to use AI. highplainsdem Jan 15 #16
No competent lawyer files a brief written by AI Bluetus Jan 15 #17
No ethical person should be using generative AI, period, for anything, unless forced to do so by a highplainsdem Jan 17 #21
What highplainsdem said jfz9580m Jan 14 #7
Now, if only Spotify and the other streaming platforms... LudwigPastorius Jan 14 #5
Very cool. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jan 14 #6
I absolutely can't stand ai so called music. tazcat Jan 14 #8
I am a happy CAMPER and have been for years. Tikki Jan 14 #9
Jan 22, 2026 Edits jfz9580m Jan 15 #12
Why aren't they all doing this? FakeNoose Jan 15 #13
Spotify makes more money from AI-generated music. It can't be copyrighted, so they don't have to highplainsdem Jan 15 #14
Well I get that FakeNoose Jan 15 #18
Of course it can be copyrighted. Bluetus Jan 17 #19
No. That's not true, and they don't claim copyright. See this: highplainsdem Jan 17 #20
I don't think you understand copyrights. Bluetus Jan 17 #22
You're still 100% wrong, because you ignored this paragraph: highplainsdem Jan 17 #23
What you are citing is only an opinion by the copyright office and that is not binding on anything. Bluetus Jan 17 #24
You can claim a partial copyright if you did any of the work and can prove it. I doubt applying a little highplainsdem Jan 17 #25
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