KI-Musik sorgt für Unbehagen, da sie die Charts anführt – DW

From the article 

Can you trust your ears to tell man from machine when it comes to music? Most people can’t, it seems.

In a recent study by the streaming platform Deezer and market research company Ipsos, 97% of respondents could not tell the difference between music tracks made entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) and those made by humans. In other words, AI-generated audio is really convincing. 

And it’s already everywhere, including on the Billboard charts: „Walk my Walk,“ from Breaking Rust — an entirely AI creation, from instrumentals to vocals to image — reached number one on the country digital song chart in mid-November. Then there is Xania Monet (whose video you see below), a similar virtual artist with Gospel and R&B charting singles who was recently signed for $3 million (€2.6 million) to a record label. And this summer, the band Velvet Sundown garnered 1 million Spotify monthly listeners before revealing itself as a „synthetic music project

Im not on spotify but real artist gotta start slapping „AI-free“ on their stuff. AI slop is rampant, regulate them on the consumer end.

If people can’t tell the difference between it then its fine. Real artists should be forced to actually do something new and exciting to stay relevant rather than what they’ve been doing for the past 15+ years. Pretty much all of the greatest hits are already manipulating music theory and know what sounds good and is addicting to most people’s ears. So you get the same pop culture slop that ruined music for me as a whole. Like the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80′, 90’s, and even 00’s all had very iconic and unique styles. So good a lot of people now are trying to go back to them anyways. And then you just have the 10’s and 20’s and its like if you were to play me a song I don’t already know when it came out or who made it I’d have a hard time picking out the decade it released in.

It’s all been commercialized slop generated by corporate algorithms for awhile. Then they go in and use autotune and other things to edit it afterwards. It’s already soulless slop so having this shit be replaced by AI isn’t really bad for anyone but these mega record companies and such already profiting off of it. When some random in their basement can just do equal or better by using some prompts and AI, what would you need them for?

Aside from the fact that we are doomed, I just wonder if our ability to tell the difference in digitally created music and real artists has anything to do with the fact that even real artists digitize and dress-up so much of their music in the studio.

This article is so annoying as it doesn’t include links to the fake songs! There is another one from deezer out this week rhat shows that only 14 percent of folks could correctly recognize AI songs when given a set of songs to label AI or not

That article also failed to provide the AI songs in question! How do you leave this detail out?

At least this one mentioned the name of two AI songs

It probably doesn’t help that DAWs and their plugins are already dripping with AI because it seems these days something isn’t valuable *unless* it has AI baked into it. <sigh>

I’m two thoughts about this… problem. 

1. I will (almost) always support real artists putting in the work and talent to create. I have a pretty wide appeal to different genres and have grown up listening to artists. DAWs complicate this for me a little because while there is certainly a lot of talent that goes into some digitally created music, the bar to entry is a lot lower than learning an instrument. This is both good and bad.
2. Sometimes all I want is background ambient beats. I’m focusing on something else, so the message and art get lost and it just becomes something to tap my foot to while I’m working. 

In scenario 2, I would be happy enough with a bot that knows my likes and dislikes and can generate an endless stream of meaningless background music. Sometimes I want artists I’m familiar with from a particular genre because I need that kind of groove. I’m not super happy with new “artists” trying to pass off generated music as their own for which they get royalties for. This has a knock on effect of actual artists getting paid less for their efforts and actual talent. 

Just label it. Require transparency. Make easily decipherable labels so listeners can know whether track was completely AI generated or some of the DAW or pedal plugins have AI training. 

People will vote with their listening habits much like GMO food. 

Unfortunately, so much pop music is created like any product.
However, it doesn’t take too much digging to discover the people behind the music.

This is the problem with these so-called AI artists.
Breaking Rust isn’t an artist and shouldn’t be allowed to present as such. That’s an insult to any musician.

Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor is the „Artist“ creating AI slop. The service should be forced to tag the real people. AI cant create art.

The genre should be labeled as AI – Country.

AI isn’t topping any charts, this is sloppy reporting. Might even be slop reporting.

We’re about to leave an era that people will look back on with immense nostalgia and longing.

Get your fill of it folks. Get as much of it in as you can. The era of genuine human art is coming to an end, soon you’ll never trust a piece of art again. You’ll constantly second guess whether something is legit or AI, and at that point it may as well all be AI, because you’ll be too paranoid to enjoy it like you once did anyway.

You’ll watch videos of crazy shit happening and no longer think “that’s wild someone caught such a ridiculous thing on video” but instead “I bet this is AI”.

Music? “It’s crazy someone could be so talented to make this.” Will just become “probably AI”, even as you enjoy it to some degree

Digital and visual art? Basically dead already. The prevailing assumption will just be that it’s AI.

These are the last days of trusting media is genuine on the internet. And then it’ll never come back.

Music is easy for AI. Lyrics are impossible. You can tell a 100% AI song if you listed to the lyrics. They’re just… bizarre. But if a good human lyricist writes the words, then AI can fill in the music and the songs aren’t bad at all.

I guess that’s the truly scary part. You can replace Elton John but not Bernie Taupin… yet.

Okay, so how do we know it is actually humans consuming the AI music?