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It's a rock-n-roll band with over 1 million monthly listeners, with 3 albums out in barely six weeks. But despite shooting to Spotify's top ranks, The Velvet Sundown's music is entirely AI-generated -- and it had quite a saga being revealed as synthetic. Vedika Bahl gives us the deep dive into the band's mysterious origins in Truth or Fake.
#TheVelvetSundown #spotify #AImusic
#AI

youtube.com/watch?v=DyfpBbdGzFc

In case you're forgetting, the IFPI - the international organization representing record labels - has its roots in Italian Fascism. So, yes, record labels should never be considered heroes by anyone. They're extortionist, rent-seeking organizations. They act like a sort of institutionalized and legal Mafia for the music industry. Nevertheless...:

"AI is cutting a swath across a number of creative industries — with AI-generated book covers, the Chicago Sun-Times publishing an AI-generated list of books that don’t exist, and AI-generated stories at CNET under real authors’ bylines. The music industry is no exception. But while many of these fields are mired in questions about whether AI models are illegally trained on pirated data, the music industry is coming at the issue from a position of unusual strength: the benefits of years of case law backing copyright protections, a regimented licensing system, and a handful of powerful companies that control the industry.

Record labels have chosen to fight several AI companies on copyright law, and they have a strong hand to play.

Historically, whatever the tech industry inflicts on the music industry will eventually happen to every other creative industry, too. If that’s true here, then all the AI companies that ganked copyrighted material are in a lot of trouble."

theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

A robot watches a band rock out.
The Verge · Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?By Elizabeth Lopatto

"AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts.

Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he’d finished listening to alt-country legend Lucinda Williams’ 1992 album Sweet Old World. “I didn’t realize the song was AI at first,” he says. “I thought it might’ve been some obscene joke record from the ’80s or ’90s.”

The person behind BannedVinylCollection, who goes by “JB” and would not otherwise identify themselves to WIRED, confirmed that his output of X-rated novelty songs are made with AI."

wired.com/story/from-sensual-b

WIRED · From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to AvoidBy Kate Knibbs

I just went to the supermarket and they put AI music.

Let me repeat again: the put AI music slop inside the supermarket.

The weird vocals, the uninspired lyrics, the invariable rhythm, it felt dystopian but a sign of the times: they don't need to pay royalties to real people.

(By the way, it was Santa Isabel).

Altri esperimenti (inutili) con la #musica generata (leggasi "rubata legalmente") da un #AI

Ho creato un testo casuale in inglese con Duck.AI e dato in pasto ad un altro software che genera musica: #udio

Creato due spezzoni di musica #progressive #rock stile #symphonic, che carico qui

Ha clonato pure la voce di #JonAnderson degli #Yes (che SICURAMENTE hanno usato per l'addestramento) è incredibile quanto è paraculo il collage

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🚫 Ban AI on creative platforms! ✊

AI isn’t a musician. Writing a prompt to have AI generate a track doesn’t make you a musician.
The ‘people said the same about sampling’ crowd don’t understand the argument they’re involved in. 🤡

#FuckAI#AI#AIMusic

📣 "Building with Open Source AI Music Models"
🙋🏻‍♂️ by Nick Berns

🎙️: "We’ve been hearing a lot about AI music over the past year. But several years before this, companies like Google and OpenAI were testing the waters with open-source AI models.
This inspired me to build DrumloopAI - a beat generator that offers an easy-to-use interface and pleasant user experience and is now used by over 65k beatmakers"

📖 5 min