Zach WeinersmithNow and then there's a headline about an AI musician going huge on some platform. For me the most fascinating thing is that when this happens, and I look up their album or singles, their songs are almost identical. Not like when you say "all of ACDC's songs are the same." Like, they're just tons of tiny variations. Check e.g. the singles by the AI named Eddie Dalton.
Or there was another popular one called Breaking Rust, I believe, who was a sort of modern hardcore country singer. Nearly every song began with him humming, in the same cadence, followed by the same bluesy percussion. And all were some variation on the theme of being a tough guy who doesn't care about other people's opinions. Like, dozens of these songs.
And with this sort of thing I always wonder whether it's that they're (a) gaming the system, or (b) discovered something humans actually wanted all along, in some sense, but which artists would've never produced.
I mean maybe we really just want Oasis to play 83 slight variations on Wonderwall, but they wouldn't.
Frosch B@b_age I dunno, like, some of these are really popular as far as I can tell. And, in my experience, people who aren't into this stuff can't tell AI from real. Or, just aren't trying to.
Willow Brook 💜@ZachWeinersmith @b_age
The unfortunate thing is that every media interaction can be botted now. Views, likes, comments. The only way you can tell is if they go up extremely quickly. Nobody's getting a million streams overnight or whatever. If they're getting Kanye numbers, something's up.
Sometimes comments can also be suspect. If usernames look generated or the comments are, like you say, slight variations on the same thing.