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

The music literally hits all the right notes. And it's why RIAA and a bunch of studios and music groups are suing the AI services that people are using to make these songs for theft.

It's a valid concern. But on the other hand, so much popular music is already mechanized w/autotune & beats.

And if you are a musician who doesn't fit the corporate mold, you'll never get anywhere unless the algorithm gods rescue you.

In a study commissioned by Deezer, 80% of respondents said they wanted AI music to be labeled as such. But only 45 percent said that they would automatically filter out AI tracks.

According to Deezer, 35% of daily uploads are entirely AI-generated.

So what do the ppl who make AI music say?

Telisha Jones, the creator of a No. 1 R&B persona named Xania Monet says that she writes all of the lyrics herself, and that's what people like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUBhjOToIC0

All of this raises lots of questions, where does art live, and do people even agree on that?

It seems that many people value art for how it makes them feel, while the history and the struggle of the artist are what attracts others.

Should only beautiful people be allowed to make music?

Must history, conception, technique, execution, and performance all be conjoined? What is art for? Are the feelings we derive from it any less real depending on its circumstances?

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@mattsheffield

“Should only beautiful people be allowed to make music?”

Woah, hold your rhetorical horses buddy: What’s this “allowed” business?

Anyone *can* make music, you just open your mouth or grab even the most rudimentary instrument. *Making* music has been an intrinsic part of the human experience (at least) since the dawn of our species.

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@mattsheffield

What you’re referring to is much more insidious and recent:

Who is allowed to *profit* from music? Who is allowed to enclose this most fundamental human activity? Who gets to mine this most social thing, wall it off, and commodify it? First we culturally strip people of the making of music, and then we extract cash from them as they seek to fill the void.

In removing the person from the “artist” the music industry exposes itself for the sham that it is.

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