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/Really_McNamington Jun 28 '25

And if the folks making all this good stuff can no longer afford to do so because they're undercut by slop?

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u/pomod Jun 28 '25

Well thankfully you can make an album with a decent mic and a laptop these days. (It used to cost 10s of thousands of dollars.). The challenge is not being lost/buried by algorithms tuned to rise populist dreck to the top of everyone’s feeds.

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u/cantquitreddit Jun 28 '25

That will genuinely never happen. Making music has only ever been a money making endeavor for the select few.  There are thousands of unknowns with great music if you take the time to dig.  If you only ever listen to curated playlists then yeah, you might encounter AI music.

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u/Really_McNamington Jun 28 '25

Since my ears aged out on me it's all academic for me now. Everything that I can still hear sounds dreadful with the few frequencies that remain available.

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u/Avantasian538 Jun 28 '25

That just means the economic system needs to change in response to technological change. It becomes a policy issue. At some point we will need UBI or a negative income tax.