AI-generated music accounts for 18% of all tracks uploaded to Deezer
About 18% of songs uploaded to Deezer are fully generated by AI, the French streaming platform said on Wednesday, underscoring the technology's growing use amid copyright risks and concerns about fair payouts to artists.
Deezer said more than 20,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded on its platform each day, which is nearly twice the number reported four months ago.
Grifters pretending to be artists. Fucking disgusting
Its really depressing that this is happening everywhere. The one good thing the internet did was open up paths to people that were being gate-kept before it. Now it's looking more and more like going back to gatekeeping is the only way any smallish company can stay in business. The scammers have always been there but now they can flood out authentic people without any effort on their part. Essentially allowing single bad actors to become the "Tyranny majority"
Well, look at it this way: streaming platforms were filled with worthless inauthentic slop well before "AI" generators got popular. It's their business model.
look, that was actually funny. All the record company A&R men shitting themselves that, in straight-up A/B testing, they were failing to compete with muzak.
Yeah, to be honest I've always had a certain fascination and respect for musicians who put out reams and reams of facile music and counterfeit hits, usually relatively small artisanal operations. I collect some of the stuff. It's really the streaming platforms I hate.
Makes some of the early thinking around the nature of the internet and technology (e.g. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace or William Gibson's 1990 documentary Cyberpunk) feel positively quaint.
One could even make an arguement that the anomie of present society is more pronounced than some of the 80s/early 90s cyberpunk media.
I don't remember characters endlessly scrolling through short video hypercharge by a max engagement personalized algorithm in an any of the media. They were out and about in rainy cities and exploring the internet as if it was a separate place. Even the AIs had cool stylization and psychedelic motifs.
I'm mildly surprised that music of any kind is what's getting uploaded to something called Deezer
I don't think AI is going away. Music wise, you already can't tell. What might happen is these three companies win their lawsuits and we only get their censored AI, with exorbitant licensing fees and such.
They control all the data, not the artists. There is no viable open source scene if they can dictate who gets to use it. It's basically an instant monopoly for them on any AI tech related to music.
Is that a problem? Drake used AI to duo with Tupac in one of his songs, imo as long as it's good music people will listen to it
Edit: I don't mind the downvotes, but let the record show I don't like Drake. But he has good songs, and if people like the music made with AI, I don't see that being a problem
deezer seems to rightfully consider being flooded with lazy AI slop a problem:
this is something different from what the article’s talking about, but also that sounds tacky as fuck
Also he did it in his dumbshit feud with Kendrick Lamar - you know, the one which ended with Drake getting the ass-whooping of a fucking lifetime
Having a dead celebrity who you've never met and was murdered when you were ten feature on your track is in very very bad taste actually.
Drake's a culture vulture, he doesn't understand taste
I'm going to take the fact that this was downvoted independently by all three site admins as sufficient reason to escort this commenter to the egress.
Why on earth would you use Drake as an example when talking about good music
I didn't really want to get into it, but since I invited the critique I will;
Drake, for all his flaws, undeniably has some good music. And it's not just about taste, he has a lot of variety and I'm sure there's something for almost anyone.
The main point I was trying to make is, hey look, big artists like Drake are making music with AI, and regardless of AI, if you enjoy it then it's good.
But the general consensus on that track is that it is very bad. That is an example of AI not being a good thing for music.