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No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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the market for AI bands is gullible journalists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrvenVdkOYA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251113-no-fake-ai-music-bought-onto-a-minor-chart-is-not-popular - podcast

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[–] 14 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I was just thinking about how I've seen a lot of people complain about AI artists flooding Spotify, while I don't think I've hit any through Youtube Music Revanced.

Anyone have any examples so I know what to look out for, or are they pretty obvious because they're all shit?

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Mostly they just use Suno, and Suno seems to be a big rigged demo that has training per genre, so you get similar tunes and similar lyrics all the time.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    brb getting into romanian shoegaze to escape slopocalypse

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    you'll get 10,000 records tagged "Romanian shoegaze" and it'll all sound like the y2k emo indie that Xfm rejected

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    It's like this artifact was made in a lab to provoke you specifically

    Edit: what should folks call an artifact with no art in it?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    YT music may be better but YT itself is absolutely stuffed with AI music. I got tricked by one and listened for like half an hour.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    YT Music's "content", as far as I know, is just Youtube videos that have been marked/tagged/autocategorized as "music". So I definitely expected it to be worse than Spotify's ostensibly curated library (you can't just make an account and start uploading there, right?).

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    • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So they spend $3k to get on the chart. Presumably, the business model of the scam (even scams need a business model) is to get noticed by clueless music journalists, and the articles then drive actual traffic to the scammer. They need >3k downloads of $1 each to make a profit.

    Are there a before and after results breakdown that show if they're actually making a profit or not? If not, the problem should take care of itself. If they are, well, someone finally found a business model where AI is profitable.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think this was a proof of concept, so you don't need to have a profitable business model just yet.

    I expect the next version will create a complete individual with video of them "playing at bars" or "small concerts".

    The goal will be to not be AI, but a real person.

    Heck they may even sell it as a service. If you pay me $10,000 you can be a country music star.

    Rebecca Black's parents paid $4,000 to make a music video. I don't think they intended it to become this popular thing, but it did.

    Would you (or could you imagine someone might) pay a little more to be a guaranteed success?

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