How do you accidentally listen to AI music?

The Sandbox General
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I am seeing some Reddit threads complaining about accidentally listening to AI music. But my question is, how the hell do you wind up doing that accidentally? Like maybe you should find out whether a musician is a real person before buying the CD.

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Is it less buying CDs and more Pandora or Spotify or whatever throwing it in your feed? Maybe as a way for them to pay less in royalties?

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How does Spotify work? Is it like the radio except the DJ is an algorithm that just plays random stuff? Or is like, just a catalog like Amazon where you can listen to whatever you want with a subscription?

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I don’t use Spotify. Apple Music lets me pick songs, or albums, or playlists where, as you say, some algorithm picks the songs.

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I see. Well I don’t actually use CDs either. I paid the Russians for a single dump of 100 TB of music which as you can imagine, is enough for several lifetimes of music even in FLAC form. Even then I still look at the metadata before I listen.

Just trying to empathize with the common man but I don’t really know how regular people listen these days I guess.

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100TB, are you serious? I don’t even have a clue, how many songs is that?

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if you picked a genre and let the algorithm play the songs, one could definitely get some AI music. depends on genre i figure. I doubt I get one by picking the “modest mouse” channel, but it could happen in some very modern sounding synth/electronic stuff.

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I only extracted the classical portion which was 8TB but my media library software had a hard stop at 100k songs so it’s above that just for that portion.

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Again, Apple Music user here. If I play an album, then once it’s finished it rotates me into a playlist based on that album. And so far, it’s always given me music from real bands, I do skip some songs but it generally recommends songs in the same genre and does a decent job.

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I suppose I might wind up getting some AI when I contact the Ruskies for another data dump. The problem seems to mostly gotten bad this year so we’ll see.

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Is there perhaps a Ukranian outfit you could support instead?

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