Do not download AI generated music

[Tgar]

Just don’t.

From Axios this Morning…….

The most-downloaded country song in America is written and sung not by a human, but by AI alone.

• Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people are lovin' 'em.

The big picture: Artists of all types should be rattled that early, deeply flawed, work-in-progress AI is already cranking out country hits ... and knocking humans down the music charts.

The success of "artists" Breaking Rust and Cain Walker pits AI technology against humans who earn their living as songwriters, artists and music business professionals, Axios Nashville's Nate Rau writes.

• Breaking Rust, a computer-generated outlaw blues-country singer, has the No. 1 song on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chartwith the single "Walk My Walk."
• Cain Walker, an AI R&B singer, is No. 3 on the same chart with "Don't Tread On Me."

Threat level: The AI chart invasion is ringing alarm bells in Nashville — Music City! — one of the songwriting capitals of the world.

• Songwriting and music publishing are the cornerstones of the city's music industry. Countless singer-songwriters flocked to Nashville over the decades.

By the numbers: Breaking Rust boasts 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Cain Walker has over 842,000.

• By comparison, ascending singer-songwriter Jackson Dean, whose single "Heavens to Betsy" is climbing the country radio charts, has 1.6 million monthly listeners.

Reality check: Billboard's country sales chart only tracks paid downloads — a small piece of the music market today. It doesn't reflect streaming and radio airplay, which are factored into Billboard's more influential Hot Country Songs chart.

Zoom out: "In just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings," Billboard reports. That figure could be higher, as it's become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI — and to what extent."

• Many tracks, spanning every genre from gospel to rock to country, arrive with anonymous or mysterious origins, sometimes with AI elements mixed into rerecordings of old school hits, Billboard adds($).

Sign of the times: Billboard uses an AI tool to sniff for AI fingerprints!

• And there's a London producer who "humanizes" AI tracks.

Thank You. No Rant. Just info.

 

[LionJim]

Appreciate the heads up.

 

[PSUPetch]

Just don’t.

From Axios this Morning…….

The most-downloaded country song in America is written and sung not by a human, but by AI alone.

• Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people are lovin' 'em.

The big picture: Artists of all types should be rattled that early, deeply flawed, work-in-progress AI is already cranking out country hits ... and knocking humans down the music charts.

The success of "artists" Breaking Rust and Cain Walker pits AI technology against humans who earn their living as songwriters, artists and music business professionals, Axios Nashville's Nate Rau writes.

• Breaking Rust, a computer-generated outlaw blues-country singer, has the No. 1 song on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chartwith the single "Walk My Walk."
• Cain Walker, an AI R&B singer, is No. 3 on the same chart with "Don't Tread On Me."

Threat level: The AI chart invasion is ringing alarm bells in Nashville — Music City! — one of the songwriting capitals of the world.

• Songwriting and music publishing are the cornerstones of the city's music industry. Countless singer-songwriters flocked to Nashville over the decades.

By the numbers: Breaking Rust boasts 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Cain Walker has over 842,000.

• By comparison, ascending singer-songwriter Jackson Dean, whose single "Heavens to Betsy" is climbing the country radio charts, has 1.6 million monthly listeners.

Reality check: Billboard's country sales chart only tracks paid downloads — a small piece of the music market today. It doesn't reflect streaming and radio airplay, which are factored into Billboard's more influential Hot Country Songs chart.

Zoom out: "In just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings," Billboard reports. That figure could be higher, as it's become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI — and to what extent."

• Many tracks, spanning every genre from gospel to rock to country, arrive with anonymous or mysterious origins, sometimes with AI elements mixed into rerecordings of old school hits, Billboard adds($).

Sign of the times: Billboard uses an AI tool to sniff for AI fingerprints!

• And there's a London producer who "humanizes" AI tracks.

Thank You. No Rant. Just info.

MFG. a thread for this…….

 

[Grant Green]

Funny. I thought about making a similar post. I can’t support this enough. As a life long musician and a songwriter, AI music is so incredibly offensive to me. I knew this day was coming but had no idea it would happen this fast. Art/music should absolutely never be made by anything but a human being. Period.

if you listen to AI generated music, you have no soul.

 

[retrospm]

This was predicted in Sci Fi thirty some years ago. William Gibson, Idoru. You could see it coming. Probably only a matter of time until the charts are dominated by AI.

 

[Tgar]

Tgar just googled Cain Walker and up popped a YouTube video featuring lyrics with AI generated images. Rather mind numbing. Described as “ Dark Country Soul Music”

Apparently the race to the bottom is speeding up.

 

[bbrown]

Just don’t.

From Axios this Morning…….

The most-downloaded country song in America is written and sung not by a human, but by AI alone.

• Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people are lovin' 'em.

The big picture: Artists of all types should be rattled that early, deeply flawed, work-in-progress AI is already cranking out country hits ... and knocking humans down the music charts.

The success of "artists" Breaking Rust and Cain Walker pits AI technology against humans who earn their living as songwriters, artists and music business professionals, Axios Nashville's Nate Rau writes.

• Breaking Rust, a computer-generated outlaw blues-country singer, has the No. 1 song on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chartwith the single "Walk My Walk."
• Cain Walker, an AI R&B singer, is No. 3 on the same chart with "Don't Tread On Me."

Threat level: The AI chart invasion is ringing alarm bells in Nashville — Music City! — one of the songwriting capitals of the world.

• Songwriting and music publishing are the cornerstones of the city's music industry. Countless singer-songwriters flocked to Nashville over the decades.

By the numbers: Breaking Rust boasts 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Cain Walker has over 842,000.

• By comparison, ascending singer-songwriter Jackson Dean, whose single "Heavens to Betsy" is climbing the country radio charts, has 1.6 million monthly listeners.

Reality check: Billboard's country sales chart only tracks paid downloads — a small piece of the music market today. It doesn't reflect streaming and radio airplay, which are factored into Billboard's more influential Hot Country Songs chart.

Zoom out: "In just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings," Billboard reports. That figure could be higher, as it's become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI — and to what extent."

• Many tracks, spanning every genre from gospel to rock to country, arrive with anonymous or mysterious origins, sometimes with AI elements mixed into rerecordings of old school hits, Billboard adds($).

Sign of the times: Billboard uses an AI tool to sniff for AI fingerprints!

• And there's a London producer who "humanizes" AI tracks.

Thank You. No Rant. Just info.

Scary.

 

[DELion]

Nashville has been cranking out formulaic songs for quite a while now. Maybe if they got back to being more creative, AI would be less of a threat.

 

[PSU87]

Books too. I will not patronize books or music generated by AI

 

[Tgar]

Nashville has been cranking out formulaic songs for quite a while now. Maybe if they got back to being more creative, AI would be less of a threat.

There is another threat In all of this. Live Music. If that disappears, the BJC would have been empty last night instead of 17,000 young ladies screaming and singing and spending money in town and buying Doc Martin’s boots or whatever else is trendy/ fashionable/ fun and hip.

When live music goes, what is left? Some AI clown face that looks like the Marlboro man who doesn’t exist? That is not filling any concert or music venue.

Not in this house.

 

[LMTLION]

Scary times in Indeed. Most predictions about the future of AI end in disaster for society.

 

[psu83]

 

[MtNittany]

Don't pay to see Taylor Swift and others mime either.

 

[Tgar]

Not even remotely close.

 

[troutrus]

Go to Chat GPT. Enter six pack, gun rack, pick up truck, and girlfriend break-up, and it should have everything required to create an equivalent to about 90% of what they spit out in Nashville every year.

 

[Nitt1300]

autotune singers aren't any better

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Just don’t.

From Axios this Morning…….

The most-downloaded country song in America is written and sung not by a human, but by AI alone.

• Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people are lovin' 'em.

The big picture: Artists of all types should be rattled that early, deeply flawed, work-in-progress AI is already cranking out country hits ... and knocking humans down the music charts.

The success of "artists" Breaking Rust and Cain Walker pits AI technology against humans who earn their living as songwriters, artists and music business professionals, Axios Nashville's Nate Rau writes.

• Breaking Rust, a computer-generated outlaw blues-country singer, has the No. 1 song on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chartwith the single "Walk My Walk."
• Cain Walker, an AI R&B singer, is No. 3 on the same chart with "Don't Tread On Me."

Threat level: The AI chart invasion is ringing alarm bells in Nashville — Music City! — one of the songwriting capitals of the world.

• Songwriting and music publishing are the cornerstones of the city's music industry. Countless singer-songwriters flocked to Nashville over the decades.

By the numbers: Breaking Rust boasts 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Cain Walker has over 842,000.

• By comparison, ascending singer-songwriter Jackson Dean, whose single "Heavens to Betsy" is climbing the country radio charts, has 1.6 million monthly listeners.

Reality check: Billboard's country sales chart only tracks paid downloads — a small piece of the music market today. It doesn't reflect streaming and radio airplay, which are factored into Billboard's more influential Hot Country Songs chart.

Zoom out: "In just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings," Billboard reports. That figure could be higher, as it's become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI — and to what extent."

• Many tracks, spanning every genre from gospel to rock to country, arrive with anonymous or mysterious origins, sometimes with AI elements mixed into rerecordings of old school hits, Billboard adds($).

Sign of the times: Billboard uses an AI tool to sniff for AI fingerprints!

• And there's a London producer who "humanizes" AI tracks.

Thank You. No Rant. Just info.

This is why I hate pop music.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Nashville has been cranking out formulaic songs for quite a while now. Maybe if they got back to being more creative, AI would be less of a threat.

Exactly

 

[razpsu]

Funny. I thought about making a similar post. I can’t support this enough. As a life long musician and a songwriter, AI music is so incredibly offensive to me. I knew this day was coming but had no idea it would happen this fast. Art/music should absolutely never be made by anything but a human being. Period.

if you listen to AI generated music, you have no soul.

So in high school they have art. But at the alternative school they have ai assisted art. wtf. Is that really art?

 

[razpsu]

Tgar just googled Cain Walker and up popped a YouTube video featuring lyrics with AI generated images. Rather mind numbing. Described as “ Dark Country Soul Music”

Apparently the race to the bottom is speeding up.

I looked that up when you posted that . It is amazing. How fast ai is moving. Don’t worry, the terminator will be here in 5-10 years.

 

[Nitt1300]

I looked that up when you posted that . It is amazing. How fast ai is moving. Don’t worry, the terminator will be here in 5-10 years.

What do we want? Time travel
When do we want it? It's irrelevant

 

[psu83]

I looked that up when you posted that . It is amazing. How fast ai is moving. Don’t worry, the terminator will be here in 5-10 years.

 

[Moogy]

If AI doesn't refer to itself in 3rd person, I'm all for it taking over.

 

[BobPSU92]

There is another threat In all of this. Live Music. If that disappears, the BJC would have been empty last night instead of 17,000 young ladies screaming and singing and spending money in town and buying Doc Martin’s boots or whatever else is trendy/ fashionable/ fun and hip.

When live music goes, what is left? Some AI clown face that looks like the Marlboro man who doesn’t exist? That is not filling any concert or music venue.

Not in this house.

At least it sells out for basketball.

 

[leinbacker]

Just don’t.

From Axios this Morning…….

The most-downloaded country song in America is written and sung not by a human, but by AI alone.

• Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people are lovin' 'em.

So AI can write songs about your pickup truck breaking down, some woman leaving you while you are at the honky-tonk - and do it in some twangy voice

 

[MtNittany]

What AI can't ever match:

* Karen Carpenter
* Efren Reyes

 

[WPB_lion]

Just don’t.

From Axios this Morning…….

The most-downloaded country song in America is written and sung not by a human, but by AI alone.

• Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people are lovin' 'em.

The big picture: Artists of all types should be rattled that early, deeply flawed, work-in-progress AI is already cranking out country hits ... and knocking humans down the music charts.

The success of "artists" Breaking Rust and Cain Walker pits AI technology against humans who earn their living as songwriters, artists and music business professionals, Axios Nashville's Nate Rau writes.

• Breaking Rust, a computer-generated outlaw blues-country singer, has the No. 1 song on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chartwith the single "Walk My Walk."
• Cain Walker, an AI R&B singer, is No. 3 on the same chart with "Don't Tread On Me."

Threat level: The AI chart invasion is ringing alarm bells in Nashville — Music City! — one of the songwriting capitals of the world.

• Songwriting and music publishing are the cornerstones of the city's music industry. Countless singer-songwriters flocked to Nashville over the decades.

By the numbers: Breaking Rust boasts 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Cain Walker has over 842,000.

• By comparison, ascending singer-songwriter Jackson Dean, whose single "Heavens to Betsy" is climbing the country radio charts, has 1.6 million monthly listeners.

Reality check: Billboard's country sales chart only tracks paid downloads — a small piece of the music market today. It doesn't reflect streaming and radio airplay, which are factored into Billboard's more influential Hot Country Songs chart.

Zoom out: "In just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings," Billboard reports. That figure could be higher, as it's become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI — and to what extent."

• Many tracks, spanning every genre from gospel to rock to country, arrive with anonymous or mysterious origins, sometimes with AI elements mixed into rerecordings of old school hits, Billboard adds($).

Sign of the times: Billboard uses an AI tool to sniff for AI fingerprints!

• And there's a London producer who "humanizes" AI tracks.

Thank You. No Rant. Just info.

How about AI coaching PSU. Would certainly save some money. I would have taken AI’s game time decision making / clock management with JF personality/recruiting/program management. We might have even won some of these games against OSU / Michigan / Oregon.

 

[MtNittany]

How about AI coaching PSU. Would certainly save some money. I would have taken AI’s game time decision making / clock management with JF personality/recruiting/program management. We might have even won some of these games against OSU / Michigan / Oregon.

Actually an interesting idea. Not for PSU, but imagine you're a D2 program and don't have any money. Have a dedicated camera cover the plays up to now, have a few geeks input what data it needs, and have a head geek sit there at a desktop on the sidelines calling plays and schemes.

 

[BobPSU92]

What AI can't ever match:

* Karen Carpenter
* Efren Reyes

Efren-A!

 

[MtNittany]

Efren-A!

 

[troutrus]

Yep. Looks like a lot of fun. And I’m sure people wil be using it.

 

[LionJim]

Yep. Looks like a lot of fun. And I’m sure people wil be using it.

F that. Just pay attention in your geometry class, for God’s sake.

 

[MtNittany]

F that. Just pay attention in your geometry class, for God’s sake.

I actually understood geometry. Got a little lost by Trig, then somehow figured out advanced stat/microeconomics/calc.

That said, I'm a good pool shooter and never think about geometry. Too many other variables that override the obvious angles. It's one thing to see them and understand them. It's another to properly physically incorporate them.

 

[LionJim]

I actually understood geometry. Got a little lost by Trig, then somehow figured out advanced stat/microeconomics/calc.

That said, I'm a good pool shooter and never think about geometry. Too many other variables that override the obvious angles. It's one thing to see them and understand them. It's another to properly physically incorporate them.

I was very good at pool, a deadeye at darts. Thinking of this right now, my reaction is that I wish I studied harder on my math.

 

[MtNittany]

Geometry is obviously a big part of pool, but it's just on a common sense, Duh! level. What must run through Efren's mind on a shot like that would take a micro processor to figure out. I have always been good at darts too.

Throughout my years in the golf biz, I've determined that good putters/short game guys are good pool players because they have good imaginations and confidence.

Some coach somewhere once said "...Confidence is the key to all the locks"...

 

[troutrus]

”The Law of Reflection” will get you by against most of the hacks out there.