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/slothson Jun 28 '25

"Let people enjoy things" is how people felt about the ghibli ai art thing that was going around kinda recently. While the artists that spent time learning to draw feel differently.

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u/rmphys Jun 28 '25

I heard the same complaint about drumkits in the 80s, that it somehow took away from people who took the time to learn an instrument. It always struck me as a particularly bourgeoisie take.

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u/starm4nn Jun 28 '25

How is that different from people who learned HTML and how to configure an Apache server being mad about Squarespace?

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u/Xutar Jun 28 '25

I think a huge difference in priorities is whether you care about "art" or just care about functionality and convenience.

I can't speak for everyone, but I'm perfectly fine with the websites I visit being more like functional services than artistic endeavors. Although, I understand a lot of people feel the same way about music.

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u/starm4nn Jun 28 '25

Yeah. That's sort of my big critique of the anti-AI movement. A lot of it seems to be based on the idea of "Why would anyone want instant results for a process I find enjoyable?"

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u/nabiku Jun 28 '25

AI is a photoshop add-in these days. Artists use AI all the time; graphic artists and web designers were the first ones to learn it 2 years ago. There are AI galleries and exhibits in every city, including the MoMA in NYC. You know why? Because artists have to take art history classes, they have seen a similar backlash to every major art movement in the last 200 years. Have a google at how people treated photographers in the 1860s.

The Ghibli thing was a harmless meme, a chance for non-artists to create something beautiful, absolutely no one was threatened by it.

The only "artists" who still have a problem with AI are etsy hobbyists whose style was so unoriginal that anyone could easily copy it, and people who don't understand how AI or fair use works.

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u/chumer_ranion Jun 28 '25

Me when I make a stupid rebuttal