Mastodawn

Matthew Sheffield 1d 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

Flux

Matthew Sheffield 1d 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)

YouTube

Pusher of Pixels 1d ago

@mattsheffield So what happens if AI does a *cover*?

Since AI creations can't be copyrighted...

Matthew Sheffield

@pixelpusher220 They're published all the time on YouTube actually. And YouTube doesn't seem to do anything against them