Fuck AI

People are literally abandoning streaming due to the over "personalisation" pigeonholing them into the same shit.

Still a joke. If this was a serious point, they'd have followed it up with any example of such very, very good AI music.

When I was getting my tyres replaced last year, the waiting room at the shop was playing an endless stream of a.i. generated music - they used to play actual music. After an hour of that I wanted to kill myself. It's just stuff to fill the silence. I guess there's a market for it among the likewise soulless.

I'm happy I moved everything over to Navidrome. I use a few useful plugins and ListenBrainz to get playlists generated based on my own music, without any of that AI garbage.

I try to support artists by buying online or picking up CDs when I'm out and about. That said, I admit I do use the *arr stack too; a lot of albums are either impossible to find or cost way too much.

I have no limits or restrictions; I can invite family members without having to pay double or triple for a new subscription, I’m finally listening to music the way it’s meant to be heard.

You know, I bought an album on Bandcamp yesterday after sampling a (too) short part of it. I was in the mood for something new, I rolled the dice and it turns out I don't love their sound. I kinda enjoy the deception. It's a human feeling. Next week I'll try some other human's music and maybe I'll regret spending 10$ again, but it will at least have gone to the artist, regardless of how I feel about their music. And that feels good.

I've been listening to this song quite a bit recently (sometimes three times a day). There is somewhat of a rhythm and beat of course, but it takes a back seat to the vocalists story. One I understand. I know for a fact there will never be ai "music" that makes me feel like ripping out someones throat and repeatedly smashing their head into the ground. Rarely does any song bring that out of me.

It's not a technically impressive song (well maybe how soft the drums are) but the way the message is communicated is visceral and real and is something ai and it's soulless supporters will never understand.

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Errr...creating problems and selling solutions for them is standard business practice.

This is such an insane take. Imagine being a music artist releasing an album and saying "I don't have to listen to other artists anymore because I have my own personalized music". Music, whether it's made by humans or not, is pretty much the exact opposite of that. It's meant to be shared, passed along, influence and be influenced.

Besides, it's really weird to me that AI bros keep trying to sell this (or other gen AI tools) as the ultimate replacement for actual artists and actual creativity. It doesn't have to be. I've had an on-and-off active subscription on Suno between v3.5 and V5, and honestly it's fun. It's its own kind of experience that has little to nothing in common with actual music making. It's entertaining to very quickly make stupid songs about your friends and family or come up with lyrics and see what it does with it or mix the craziest genres you can think of. There is even creativity involved if you use it with a creative mindset, as in its own ways it can force you to think a bit more intently about things like genre or rhythm or metric. But at the end of the day I never once thought to make my silly experiments available commercially, pass them off as my own, use parts of them in my own music, or anything of the sort. It's so easy to draw the line, yet there is this constant push to blur it.