Matthew Sheffield1d ago

🧵 AI-generated soul music by "Eddie Dalton" is taking over iTunes, YouTube, and Spotify--raising the question of where humans think beauty and art lives.

Software-made music has gotten so good now that 97 percent of people cannot differentiate it from human-made music.
https://plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalton-isnt-real-but-what-does

Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean?

Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives

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Show threadMatthew Sheffield1d ago

Eddie Dalton had 3 of the top 5 Apple Music songs, and all of the songs released on YouTube have hundreds of thousands of views within just days.

People absolutely love it.

"This song has touched the depth of my soul," one listener wrote on YouTube.

You can listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5FSZzm-k8

Another Day Old (Official Lyric Video)

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Show threadJonathan1d ago

@mattsheffield

I would just mention that I'm not sure those are users. There are a ton of what look like fake comments on these AI generated garbage songs.

Show threadMatthew Sheffield1d ago

@jmcrookston That seems unlikely considering that AI generated music is overwhelmingly popular on YouTube.

It's in every single genre, much with hundreds of thousands of views.

Show threadJonathan

@mattsheffield

Elsewhere people have reported that there are swarms of bots promoting this garbage music for the monetary return. So I'm not sure what we can draw from popularity, if that is happening. Of course, maybe whatever outlet I was reading was mistaken about it being fake. That's certainly possible.

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Show threadMatthew Sheffield1d ago

@jmcrookston There is a lot of fake traffic out there for sure. But I've seen multiple people listen to these AI covers for background mood music, so I don't think it's all fake.

I have even had someone show me a JS Bach channel with fake music that made be actively cringe.

Show threadJonathan1d ago

@mattsheffield

Well nothing's ever black or white. So I'd agree it's not that 100% of it will be fake. The comments look very suspicious, then I found the article that said the numbers are getting juiced.

I only started looking into any of it after YouTube started feeding me fake AI songs on every single genre. They all had gigantic view numbers. So it does look to me like somebody is pulling a concerted attack here.

Anyway, the quality of the songs is quite good.

Show threadJonathan1d ago

@mattsheffield

It's definitely impossible to tell one of these fake songs from any kind of real song.

I'm not surprised. About 5 years ago there were some computer generated songs that were full of errors overall, but the individual sections were quite good. It was very easy to tell that they were fake but 5hat was always going to be able to be overcome. I guess they've gotten there.