Three songs generated by artificial intelligence topped music charts this week, reaching the highest spots on Spotify and Billboard charts.
Walk My Walk and Livin’ on Borrowed Time by the outfit Breaking Rust topped Spotify’s “Viral 50” songs in the US, which documents the “most viral tracks right now” on a daily basis, according to the streaming service. A Dutch song, We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Center, an anti-migrant anthem by JW “Broken Veteran” that protests against the creation of new asylum centers, took the top position in Spotify’s global version of the viral chart around the same time. Breaking Rust also appeared in the top five on the global chart.
These three songs are part of a flood of AI-generated music that has come to saturate streaming platforms. A study published on Wednesday by the streaming app Deezer estimates that 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day – 34% of all the music submitted.
Unless you enjoy music regardless of whether it’s AI generated, in which case the future’s going to have way more options.
I’m a musician, so, it’s all fucking garbage. But people don’t care how their music is made just like they don’t care what’s in hot dogs, so enjoy your soul less shit music.
AI slop isn’t music.
Human slop isn’t, either. The issue is that AI slop seems to top human slop now.
The absolute worst human art is better than the best machine art, because art is exclusively human.
Which is a rather weak redeeming quality. I hate AI generated slop, but that does not excuse the existence of human generated slop. My argument is not “see how good AI is”, but “see how much human creativity has fallen”.
Oh, the evergreen “but what about human slop” argument of AI boosters.
I’m anything but an “AI booster”. Still, human slop does exist.
If 97% of listeners can’t tell the difference then I’m not sure the point of quibbling the definition.
AI music is a way to generate propaganda and spread manipulative messages for the masses in a way they won’t even notice. This way they don’t need to find the talent who are willing to make it, but also they can churn out songs faster. They just prompt the AI with some mean wishes and the recipe for a song people have formerly enjoyed, and the next “top hits” fall out. even if people are not looking for that shit, spotify’s next song algorithm will helpfully boost them for some reason.
Or, it’s a way to generate songs about whatever topic or in whatever style that you personally are interested in. That’s what I use it for.
I could really love where in the article this study is.