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No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 day ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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the market for AI bands is gullible journalists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrvenVdkOYA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251113-no-fake-ai-music-bought-onto-a-minor-chart-is-not-popular - podcast

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So they spend $3k to get on the chart. Presumably, the business model of the scam (even scams need a business model) is to get noticed by clueless music journalists, and the articles then drive actual traffic to the scammer. They need >3k downloads of $1 each to make a profit.

Are there a before and after results breakdown that show if they're actually making a profit or not? If not, the problem should take care of itself. If they are, well, someone finally found a business model where AI is profitable.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 35 minutes ago

I think this was a proof of concept, so you don't need to have a profitable business model just yet.

I expect the next version will create a complete individual with video of them "playing at bars" or "small concerts".

The goal will be to not be AI, but a real person.

Heck they may even sell it as a service. If you pay me $10,000 you can be a country music star.

Rebecca Black's parents paid $4,000 to make a music video. I don't think they intended it to become this popular thing, but it did.

Would you (or could you imagine someone might) pay a little more to be a guaranteed success?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I was just thinking about how I've seen a lot of people complain about AI artists flooding Spotify, while I don't think I've hit any through Youtube Music Revanced.

Anyone have any examples so I know what to look out for, or are they pretty obvious because they're all shit?

[–] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

YT music may be better but YT itself is absolutely stuffed with AI music. I got tricked by one and listened for like half an hour.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

YT Music's "content", as far as I know, is just Youtube videos that have been marked/tagged/autocategorized as "music". So I definitely expected it to be worse than Spotify's ostensibly curated library (you can't just make an account and start uploading there, right?).

[–] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I think so yeah. But the ones I've come across are like 90 minute videos of AI generated "music" tracks.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly they just use Suno, and Suno seems to be a big rigged demo that has training per genre, so you get similar tunes and similar lyrics all the time.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

brb getting into romanian shoegaze to escape slopocalypse

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

you'll get 10,000 records tagged "Romanian shoegaze" and it'll all sound like the y2k emo indie that Xfm rejected

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It's like this artifact was made in a lab to provoke you specifically

Edit: what should folks call an artifact with no art in it?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

an artifact with no art in it?

an ifact