AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms:
[The Velvet Sundown] which now boasts over 750,000 monthly listeners, has no presence beyond social media. Everything it puts out — band photos, album covers, and especially the music — show telltale signs of having been spat out by GenAI. The group’s track names are suspiciously close to existing hits: “Dust on the Wind,” for example, not to be confused with the iconic Kansas hit “Dust in the Wind.”
What was that quote about letting AI do all the shit jobs so we can focus on art, instead of letting AI create the art so we can keep working soul crushing, dead-end jobs?
I don’t remember it verbatim, but this is gross. Even if you suck at writing, playing an instrument and singing, at least that’s real. No matter how nervous you are to play in front of people, or how rough and incomplete you think your own songs are, it’s music. That’s what art is about.
It’s something we create.