An AI-generated band got 1m plays on Spotify. Now music insiders say listeners should be warned
The Velvet Sundown released two albums before admitting their music, images and backstory were created by AI.
I listened to the song, and it’s very curious how recognizable it is. Of course, AI doesn’t create. It compiles snippets of what already exists. But so much exists that it can present its concoctions as standalone artifacts.
I couldn’t listen to more than 20 seconds of this AI-generated song not because of any ideological opposition to AI. My objection to it is on the same grounds as my objection to wearing a leopard print top with zebra print leggings. It’s in bad taste. It’s outdated, it’s vulgar. Not sexually vulgar but lacking all discernment. The song is bad precisely because it’s made out of snippers of past melodies. It’s outdated. It has the “God, not this again” flavor.
Unfortunately, many people sincerely don’t understand why Lays chips aren’t food and this music isn’t music.
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Love your description, “God not this again.” AI music = No soul.
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“AI … compiles snippets … that it can present its concoctions as standalone artifacts”
AI music reminds me of a description of a celebrated and very mediocre soviet composer whose name I fittingly forget (paraphrasing) “It’s always working toward a big point that never arrives”.
There’s no overarching structure so there’s no resolution.
I listened to a few minutes of the songs by this group and it sounds like musicians noodling (practicing and improvizing without any particular song in mind).
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Yay, it’s like opening a bakery that takes leftover bread from all the other bakeries, and reconstitutes it into already-stale bread.
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