AN AI band has 900,000 monthly listeners

[Scribe]

Moral of the story being, we should be able to beat people who rip us off, grift, and so on.

Conan supports this message.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tons of people thought they were a real band and not just one guy making the music and a second guy doing the art and videos. When they became so popular that a tour was required, they had to go out and get real musicians to play the parts of the fake cartoon musicians.

To be fair, Gorillaz’ music was never just Damon Albarn. Pick a song off of the debut, and you’ll find contributions from De La Soul, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, etc. Some contributed to later albums as well, and others joined in as well, like Mos Def.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Bender would be happy.

And would do a washboard solo.

 

[Clint_L]

To be fair, Gorillaz’ music was never just Damon Albarn. Pick a song off of the debut, and you’ll find contributions from De La Soul, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, etc. Some contributed to later albums as well, and others joined in as well, like Mos Def.

Yes, and also it was being made by actual human beings. This is apples and oranges.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

To be clear, I’m not against all music generated by computers. No less a musician than Brian Eno has been composing generative music for years- Music for Airports was released in 1978.

Generative Music - Brian Eno - In Motion Magazine

Generative music - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Bohandas]

Honestly better than most pop music...

That's exactly what I was going to say. Pop music has been corporate slop for decades. I remember we were already joking that all the pop stars were mass-produced robots way back in the 1990's. At least this new thing is relatively honest about what it is.

 

[Theory of Games]

Is human art of greater value than ai art? If so, why?

 

[Morrus]

Is human art of greater value than ai art? If so, why?

What do you mean by "value"?

 

[Umbran]

One of course wonders how many of those 900,000 are actually bots....

 

[Morrus]

One of course wonders how many of those 900,000 are actually bots....

Bots making music for bots.