r/Music • u/Kaiser_Allen • Jun 28 '25

music "There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/theres-not-a-shred-of-evidence-on-the-internet-that-this-band-has-ever-existed-this-apparently-ai-generated-artist-is-racking-up-hundreds-of-thousands-of-spotify-streams
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u/Endiaron Jun 28 '25

May I ask why did you spell the word "on" with a zero instead of an O?

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u/vamonos_pest Jun 28 '25

Plot twist they're also AI

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u/Itsme340 Jun 28 '25

Am I AI?

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u/W0gg0 Jun 28 '25

LOL!!010101

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u/SethTaylor987 Jun 28 '25

No, you're real. I'm AI.

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u/KingOfBerders Jun 28 '25

Maybe the AI were the friends we met along the way…

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u/greeblefritz Jun 28 '25

If you have to ask, you'll never know

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u/nhSnork Jun 28 '25

Boring answer: they're pretty close on many mobile keyboards.

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u/Kryspo Jun 28 '25

What's the exciting answer?

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u/AskMeHowIMetYourMom Jun 28 '25

Skynet 

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u/Kryspo Jun 28 '25

I'll take the boring answer, thanks

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u/Pro_Racing Jun 28 '25

His phone is rigged to explode if he ever spells "on" and therefore he must use "0n" as a derivative.

Or something like that.

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u/Kryspo Jun 28 '25

Rip he slipped up later in his comment. Life is so fragile

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u/SethTaylor987 Jun 28 '25

He's a Russian spy

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u/TheRabidDeer Jun 28 '25

I feel like a mobile keyboard would autocorrect back to "on" though, no? Unless they turned off autocorrect...

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u/nhSnork Jun 28 '25

I know I do - autocorrect can be a nuisance in online nerd talk with fictional names and terms thrown around.

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u/eti_erik Jun 28 '25

I have automatic autocorrect turned off. And I don't normally use Reddit on my cellphone.

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u/eti_erik Jun 28 '25

They're pretty close on my physical keyboard too.

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u/enternius Jun 28 '25

Also regular keyboards.

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u/eti_erik Jun 28 '25

Because those two keys are pretty close to each other, and in the font I'm using there is almost no difference between 0 and o.

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u/andrewsad1 Jun 28 '25

Maybe it's the same reason l use Is instead of ls and ls instead of Is. A human can't teII the difference, but it reaIIy throws off Als