It's the new Milli Vanilli...

[coonmanx]

An AI-generated band got 1m plays on Spotify. Now music insiders say listeners should be warned

The Velvet Sundown released two albums before admitting their music, images and backstory were created by AI

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bone Yard]

Milli Vanilli got screwed, yea Rob and Fab were just the face of the music but there were real singers/producers behind the music and they got their Grammy taken away. I've been known to still throw down some bye, bye, ba-bye baby from time to time.

 

[Gigantic]

This is so much worse. There were actual songwriters, musicians and producers behind Mili Vanlli. This is just machine-generated plagiarism.

 

[OldJBL]

I can tell the image of the "band" is AI generated so it would be logical to assume that the music is too.

 

[DesertRatt]

This was the #1 country and western song on Spotify last week. Another AI band that has released an album.

 

[OldJBL]

I think there will need to be laws that require all AI generated music, videos, books, commercials, news articles, etc. be labeled as such. Also, copyrights, patents, etc. should also have some restrictions if AI is used in a product's development.

 

[spicer]

This was the #1 country and western song on Spotify last week. Another AI band that has released an album.

Sounds like it.

 

[LarryKing2]

This was the #1 country and western song on Spotify last week. Another AI band that has released an album.

People in the industry often get disappointed when the flashy cover reveals no real substance. I had a similar experience with MVAS offers in affiliate marketing: everything looks shiny on the surface, but in reality, it's unclear what exactly works and where the catch is. At some point, I got tired of trying to figure it out blindly and started looking for detailed explanations. I found a clear breakdown here: https://roiads.co/blog/glossary/mvas-offers/ and finally understood the mechanics. After that, I began approaching such offers more cautiously, as if I were listening to a new track and trying to determine whether it's a fake or a real talent.

Milli Vanilli was once discussed for its fake vocals, but now the debate is no longer about people, but about AI that can "create" an entire band from scratch. And if back then there were real musicians behind the screen, now there's nothing but emptiness and algorithms. What's frightening isn't even the fact of imitation itself, but the fact that listeners sometimes don't even try to distinguish the real thing from the generated. It seems the question will no longer be who's singing, but why we listen at all.

 

[OBMG74]

I'm guessing that people who listen through smartphones and earbuds or blue-tooth speakers won't notice or care.

 

[painttoad]

at least milli vanilli were pretty

 

[YY1]

Of all the times when an extra finger would be advantageous.....

 

[YY1]

I looked again- the Brad Hamilton character appears only to have three fingers on his fretting hand.
Maybe that's why he has that expression.

 

[onwardjames]

I have that on CD, Milli Vanilli.

Say whatever you wish, it had a pile of real bangers on it. Someone was doing a good job.

 

[cademan]

I'm guessing that people who listen through smartphones and earbuds or blue-tooth speakers won't notice or care.

And this is how we are going to be being deceived.

My friend thinks this is real no matter what other people or the website says. I say if you can't physically touch it, it ain't real!

 

[GChief]

My unpopular opinion. To me its all just

If AI starts doing the kind of music I listen to, probably not as its not mainstream, then I will just separate the wheat from the chaff, easy day, it will become just another part of the hobby for me.

If I eventually can't tell the difference and I an entertained and enjoy it, then meh I will listen.

Read the first sentence again please

 

[Gigantic]

I'm guessing that people who listen through smartphones and earbuds or blue-tooth speakers won't notice or care.

I take it you haven't listened to music streamed through "earbuds" lately. My Airpods Pro 2's, while not the top of the line, sound astoundingly good and I gather that the IEMs that headies, or whatever headphone fans call themselves, are better yet. It's not 2001, nobody listens to MP3s and the Ipod and those awful earbuds that shipped with them, haven't been cutting edge in nearly 25 years. The SQ from a smartphone with losslessstreaming and even average earphones is pretty astounding these days, even with the degradation of bluetooth thrown into the mix.

 

[GChief]

I take it you haven't listened to music streamed through "earbuds" lately. My Airpods Pro 2's, while not the top of the line, sound astoundingly good and I gather that the IEMs that headies, or whatever headphone fans call themselves, are better yet. It's not 2001, nobody listens to MP3s and the Ipod and those awful earbuds that shipped with them, haven't been cutting edge in nearly 25 years. The SQ from a smartphone with losslessstreaming and even average earphones is pretty astounding these days, even with the degradation of bluetooth thrown into the mix.

You can tell the people that have not actually listened to good earbuds/IEMs from a phone.

HPs, earbuds and IEMs can and do sound great.

 

[spicer]

You can tell the people that have not actually listened to good earbuds/IEMs from a phone.

HPs, earbuds and IEMs can and do sound great.

I'm sure they do, better all the time, no doubt. I just don't listen, use them so it has no bearing personally. AI created music though, at least at this point, it jumps right out at me in a most annoying way, nothing to do with genre. It is personless, not even sterile. It has a plastic hat and no cattle. It is well a defined vacuous expression of vapidity. That is the way I hear it, at least that song, including the logo, the name and the title. Waylon, ain't no way.

 

[GChief]

AI created music though, at least at this point, it jumps right out at me in a most annoying way, nothing to do with genre. It is personless, not even sterile. It has a plastic hat and no cattle. It is well a defined vacuous expression of vapidity. That is the way I hear it, at least that song, including the logo, the name and the title. Waylon, ain't no way.

That is what the third part of my post #15 is about. Easy day right now telling, when I can't tell and I enjoy it then who really cares, I sure won't if I like it. How soon will we get there? Who knows

 

[coonmanx]

There used to be a point to music. You identified with a band and their music. Maybe you even went and saw them in concert. Now we simply have computers spitting out "music"... What does that mean? Is it the next step on having us completely controlled by robots? It takes something that is a universal connection and reduces it to preprogrammed bits and bytes... To me it's just one more ripoff in a world full of ripoffs. Doing the bare minimum to put out a "product".

I for one am very wary of AI. Sometimes it can give helpful information but a lot of times it can be wrong as well. There is no substitute for human beings. What kind of world are the powers to be planning for us? Wall-E...