"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

[u/Kaiser_Allen]

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

[u/Canvaverbalist]

Yeah jumping off this comment to say "AI music" is an absolute parasite on YouTube, there are several instrumental albums with millions of views already.

If any of you have seen these "Space Cowboy Funk [thumbnail of an astronaut with a cowboy hat]" or "Urban Ninja Groove [Ninja dressed in hip-hop clothing]" or "Morning Café Jazz [café table in Paris]" or "Hyperdrive Boogie [disco aliens]" or "2 Hours of Interstellar Highway Space Rock [truck spaceship]" type of videos, there's 90% chance they're AI generated music. And they never say anything about it. It's just obvious because there's no sense of artistic identity at all in their page.

Just search "Instrumental album" and you'll see hundreds of them with 1M+ views.

As a multi-instrumentalist who can barely get 10 listens on actual tracks I sweat for, this is really disheartening.

[u/electricmaster23 → u/Canvaverbalist]

Can’t speak for all of it, but I’m quite sure the morning coffee jazz thing pre-dated music AI by years.

[u/SorryDragonfruit7546 → u/Canvaverbalist]

I have a handful of very 'small' (almost no listeners) artists I found on spotify through various means and I LOOP their songs from time to time in the background on my computer. I've let a couple of them know I do it via instagram, but some don't.

It makes me so quietly happy when, after weeks of dedicated loop-listening I see a song reach the 1,000 listens threshold. Gives me a thrill each time --- I get to listen to the song AND I feel like the artist in some way could feel appreciated or uplifted or something (I know it only means like $1 financially.)

I've found some interesting people-artists - niches that way! Including a singer from Burma whose chill song now has well over 3,000 listens thanks to tons of dedicated looping by a person he has no idea about (me) on the other side of the world. I even began to learn it phonetically so I can sing along!! : )

I'm looping a song called 'Grateful' quietly in the background as I type this. Been looping it all day and yesterday afternoon, too. It has yet to reach 1,000 listens, but I've been at it for weeks and will continue : ).

Wouldn't it be cool if more people did this??

(I wouldn't call myself a musician, though I have studied/practiced it since I was little.)