Technology

I'm glad they did this. Confident in my choice to remain with Bandcamp.

Bandcamp consistently throws Ws

Keep it up bandcamp. We are all waiting for when you enshittify like everyone else but you've held it at bay so far.

I hope more platforms ban this useless spam.

I was buying some LPs recently and saw one that caught my attention. I looked them up and almost all their content included some form of AI.

it's bullshit.

fuck AI.

Great decision Bandcamp, I use Bandcamp to support musicians

Just watch, we’re two weeks away from some tech bro trying to start a Clankercamp website. The best part is that no one except other tech bros will care.

YES! YES!! YES!!! I hate having to sift through that tripe when exploring certain genres.

It was being OVERRUN with AI stuff, hopefully this cleans it up

Oh, I need to get back into Bandcamp

Good.

And sure... People will obviously try to break this rule, and I'm sure some will succeed. But that's true of any rule. Rules don't prevent bad behavior, only deter it.

Bandcamp W. One of the platforms I buy music from and surf other than soundcloud. You can find some banger albums by genre on there.

Neat, my current setup is :

• stream from FIP.fr via cvlc
• when I absolutely love a tune, buy on Bandcamp
• if it's not available or I bought it elsewhere, e.g. old CD, then get from Soulseek
• scp my ~/Music directory on my mobile phone

I tried LMS for few weeks but honestly just plain VLC is enough for me.

Anyway, point is, this decision makes me want to buy from Bandcamp even more.

Are Bandcamp still the good guys? I thought they were bought by the big capital and now went down the drain. Artists' opinions especially welcome

Bandcamp is where you want to be if you want to support artists. they get money when you buy things from them on there

I hope all my fave autistic musicians are not mistaken for AI and deleted under a false-positive detection of being AI. At least my fave's album releases all pre-date AI music generators. Safe, for now.

I think safer would be to encourage all purely AI-generated be tagged as such, so it can be optionally toggled out of view, and then there's less incentive for the unscrupulous to simply hide that it's AI generated. Banning increases the "hide that it's AI" vibes, not the "don't do AI" vibes. Prohibition does not prevent. Prohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse.

good decision, also good decision to not ban all music with ai in it. like, we got so many pedals nowadays. live pitch correction? like wtf. how is that not ai. as long as there is some human pouring their blood, sweat, tears and soul into the music, that is what i want to hear.

I'm generally supportive of removing AI from artistic endeavors, but also wildly unfamiliar with bandcamp. I'm looking at it for the first time right now. Does it work like Deezer / Tidal or one of the streaming services where I can listen to things from my phone, or is it more of a website that you use to discover unsigned / smaller acts by clicking through a bunch of things and listening?

If anyone needs to bypass this ban, for $3 I will record 1 minute of yodelling so your content isn’t pure AI. 

Good on them on recognizing that slop is undesirable and shouldn't be encouraged, but that a full ban also kills the nuance of creative freedom and creates painful situations where a single AI tool anywhere in the process (even indirectly) gets hard work rejected, which could hamper aspiring creatives in their ability to (start to) get their work out there and (start to) make a living when they are not what (most) people have issue with.