Whether or not AI needs to be identified or segregated in music streaming platforms, the intent to deceive the consumer consumer was clear: AI created audio content with AI visual imagery of band members that don’t exist and the use of bots to inflate the numbers in the algorithm to infiltrate listener streams. It would be more interesting if the project was identified as AI with visual personas like pen names…maybe a perceived band history designed by AI. But this attempt was clearly just designed to make money from nothing ( and your chicks for free,). MTV, meet 1984. 1984, this is the 21st century.
Exactly! The deception is what makes this so insidious. They chose fraud over innovation, using bots to game the system and steal streams from real artists. Your MTV/1984 reference is perfect as well! We are living in a world where fake bands with fake fans are competing for real money, and most listeners have no idea. 🤷🏻
Thank you Chinmaya for blowing the whistle on this farago, it’s something I couldn’t have dreamed or had a nightmare of! Yeah, just what we need, an AI band made up of non-existent people and computer created music. I’m so glad I had a life where I saw, heard, and sometimes played with some of the greatest Blues, Rock and Roll and Folk artists of the 20th century. I’m retired now, but this kind of shit makes me want to start recording and, doing something no AI generated band can do, (yet…) PLAY LIVE! GO TO SHOWS! KEEP MUSIC LIVE AND HUMAN! FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR VERY SOULS. WHAT’S NEXT,AI GROUPIES? MAY THE GODS SAVE US.
They were set to "Do Not Play This Artist" a few weeks ago and I haven't really thought about them since... while just on Spotify anyway, I hear more about them here than anywhere else! lol. Everyone should just block them and move on.
Whether or not AI needs to be identified or segregated in music streaming platforms, the intent to deceive the consumer consumer was clear: AI created audio content with AI visual imagery of band members that don’t exist and the use of bots to inflate the numbers in the algorithm to infiltrate listener streams. It would be more interesting if the project was identified as AI with visual personas like pen names…maybe a perceived band history designed by AI. But this attempt was clearly just designed to make money from nothing ( and your chicks for free,). MTV, meet 1984. 1984, this is the 21st century.
Exactly! The deception is what makes this so insidious. They chose fraud over innovation, using bots to game the system and steal streams from real artists. Your MTV/1984 reference is perfect as well! We are living in a world where fake bands with fake fans are competing for real money, and most listeners have no idea. 🤷🏻
Thank you Chinmaya for blowing the whistle on this farago, it’s something I couldn’t have dreamed or had a nightmare of! Yeah, just what we need, an AI band made up of non-existent people and computer created music. I’m so glad I had a life where I saw, heard, and sometimes played with some of the greatest Blues, Rock and Roll and Folk artists of the 20th century. I’m retired now, but this kind of shit makes me want to start recording and, doing something no AI generated band can do, (yet…) PLAY LIVE! GO TO SHOWS! KEEP MUSIC LIVE AND HUMAN! FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR VERY SOULS. WHAT’S NEXT,AI GROUPIES? MAY THE GODS SAVE US.
They were set to "Do Not Play This Artist" a few weeks ago and I haven't really thought about them since... while just on Spotify anyway, I hear more about them here than anywhere else! lol. Everyone should just block them and move on.