A survey published last week suggested 97% of respondents could not spot an AI-generated song. But there are some telltale signs - if you know where to look.
Here’s a quick guide …
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No live performances or social media presence
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‘A mashup of rock hits in a blender’
A song with a formulaic feel - sweet but without much substance or emotional weight - can be a sign of AI, says the musician and technology speaker, as well as vocals that feel breathless.
- ‘AI hasn’t felt heartbreak yet’
“AI hasn’t felt heartbreak yet… It knows patterns,” he explains. “What makes music human is not just sound but the stories behind it.”
- Steps toward transparency
In January, the streaming platform Deezer launched an AI detection tool, followed this summer by a system which tags AI-generated music.
Look, I hate AI as much as the next person, but honestly, I think a lot of AI music is better than whatever dumb shit they play on radio literally all across the world.
Text AI is meh.
Image AI is meh.
Video AI is not bad.
Music AI is pretty good.
Edit: Wow, tough crowd, tough crowd. I stand by what I said.
Look, you obviously don’t hate AI as much as the next person.
I hate the fact that it is owned and controlled and developed and manipulated by modern self made kings. I hate the fact that it has tremendous destructive power. I hate the fact that it will be used to control global discourse, empower militaries, and only serve to solidify the profound wealth gap already ingrained in and promoted by the fabric of our economic system.
But hey, if you feel like you need to gatekeep hating AI, knock yourself out, I guess I will never achieve your level of purity.
Hasn’t been existed since forever like hatuni miku or teto
Vocaloids aren’t AI, they’re digital instruments.
I am not sure I quite follow. I mean yeah good comparison with Hatsune Miku, but I mean it genuinely- I would rather listen to some AI generated beats I “made” “myself” over the absolute auditive brain diarrhea they play in coffee shops all around the world, it’s the same lowest common denominator manufactured pop drivel that I can’t escape from one side of the planet to the other.
Thanks, I’ll take random techno beats with Bach fugues and Chopin leads with a Rasta rhythm over that any day. At least it doesn’t desperately try to make a case for itself being great art.
I mean that AI music has existed for decades and only now people are complaining.
Then we’re kind of on the same page.
I guess we are. I don’t know why I was so defensive, I feel like I’m used to people online being contrarion for no reason.
Because you were unsure about my intentions, but we cleared that up so all’s good. That’s how proper communication works. We work out our differences and problems by talking with each other about them.
Who the fuck is listening to the radio when they own a phone?
A LOT of people, especially blue collar folk, listen to fully advertised radio schlock every single minute of their working day, and they work very long days.
WiFi is technically radio.
Neither 1) nor 2) matters, because the word “radio” encompasses a fuzzy category of media content regardless of how it’s being provided. People still go to the “movies” even though we’ve had “talkies” since 1910. We still watch film even when it’s shot digitally.