> That response has not impressed the IFPI Sweden music industry organisation, which has blocked the song from appearing in the country's official national charts. ... amid concerns that AI could cut revenues to the country's music creators by up to a quarter within the next two years.
The music industry has a stellar record of fighting against generational trends - mp3s, youtube videos, streaming, now AI songs
Edit: There's a whole lot of replies trying to sell the idea that AI Slop and pop music is the same. It isn't. You can dislike pop music all you want, you can think it's low effort all you want, but it's not AI Slop. This is a false equivalency.
The response of the industry seems like a bit of a distraction to me - this stuff is clearly not organic, is it? These tracks are being injected into common playlists to inflate playtime or something, surely?
If these tracks are so (organically) popular why are they restricted to Spotify, why aren’t they on other services?
I listened to the song in question. It's truly awful. Simplistic and cliche in every way musically possible, and it sounds like it was written about 15 years ago at the height of the indie folk craze.
That said, it shouldn't be illegal to like trash, or to make money off of trash if people want to buy it. It's trivial for a human musician with moderate talent and experience to make better music than this. The musicians who are afraid this is going to replace them are probably not doing much original or creative in the first place.
Having worked in the record biz... I can tell you the great preponderance of pop is created synthetically: the vocals are filtered, compressed, pitch corrected, layered, and effects added, the "instruments" are usually made of samples which originate in many different hands and are further modified. The lyrics usually written by one party, re-written by another none of whom are the recording artist. The melody takes a similar journey. I hate it passionately. Despite that, the music still has artistic intent and AI does not.
Just force an AI label on it and that's that. Whoever wants to listen to it at least don't get tricked into thinking it has to do with a real person behind it. Some people don't care, others do. Right now when I'm tricked into listening to something AI made I feel deceived for wasting time on it though I can still tell realize it's AI. If it wasn't for this deception part Im okay with it being out there, simply labeled AI if it's AI generated.
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The music industry has a stellar record of fighting against generational trends - mp3s, youtube videos, streaming, now AI songs
Edit: There's a whole lot of replies trying to sell the idea that AI Slop and pop music is the same. It isn't. You can dislike pop music all you want, you can think it's low effort all you want, but it's not AI Slop. This is a false equivalency.
If these tracks are so (organically) popular why are they restricted to Spotify, why aren’t they on other services?
It's incredibly naive to think you can stop AI use by banning it. Banning AI just means banning admitting you used AI.
That said, it shouldn't be illegal to like trash, or to make money off of trash if people want to buy it. It's trivial for a human musician with moderate talent and experience to make better music than this. The musicians who are afraid this is going to replace them are probably not doing much original or creative in the first place.