I got this AI-generated version of Without Me recommended in my Discover Weekly. The artist is Orion7.
There's zero disclosure that it's AI generated but I was suspicious because a. the distinctive 'AI hiss' I recognise from generating my own music as a hobby b. inconsistent censoring and c. Only two other tracks from the artist and both sound very different.
Did some backgrounding and confirmed it was AI:
• Matches this YouTube upload
from 6 Oct that explicitly says it’s AI-generated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqH-GKVyryM
• Song credits list Aufizal Moura as "Writer" (no online record) and producer Wayne Brain (real producer, but no mention of the track)
• Uploaded via DistroKid
Originally I assumed that this was properly licensed but now I'm not sure.
On the one hand, you'd think Spotify would be _extremely_ motivated to stop people making money off unlicensed AI-generated covers.
On the other hand, on investigation I've found more generated covers on Spotify (usually taken down quickly and listed as 'unavailable') + surely there would be a press release if Eight Mile Records was licensing AI covers?
southwindcg•3mo ago
It looks like everything this IAX Music channel has posted there is AI slop.
flave•3mo ago
I don't know if I agree that it's 'slop' but yeah the artist is clearly pushing out a very specific style of AI generated music.
pascal2csharp•3mo ago
I got the same recommendation. One update was that Orion7 was renamed to IAXMusic.
fellow-human•3mo ago
YouTube just played me the same song by “artist” IAXMUSIC. Ugh. Why pay for a YT subscription just to be fed AI slop. Any music platforms avoiding this poor business choice? I’m so sick of the slop.
flave•3mo ago
There's zero disclosure that it's AI generated but I was suspicious because a. the distinctive 'AI hiss' I recognise from generating my own music as a hobby b. inconsistent censoring and c. Only two other tracks from the artist and both sound very different.
Did some backgrounding and confirmed it was AI: • Matches this YouTube upload from 6 Oct that explicitly says it’s AI-generated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqH-GKVyryM • Song credits list Aufizal Moura as "Writer" (no online record) and producer Wayne Brain (real producer, but no mention of the track) • Uploaded via DistroKid
Eight Mile Records is notoriously litigious and Spotify should have copyright detection so I'm unsure what's going on here. It's been up for 5 days already with over a million streams: https://app.artist.tools/track/2T2kGWVFncp0Gkzbw2qFK1?tab=ov...
This has been recommended to other people in their Discover Weekly: https://www.reddit.com/r/truespotify/comments/1o93mzu/found_...
Originally I assumed that this was properly licensed but now I'm not sure.
On the one hand, you'd think Spotify would be _extremely_ motivated to stop people making money off unlicensed AI-generated covers.
On the other hand, on investigation I've found more generated covers on Spotify (usually taken down quickly and listed as 'unavailable') + surely there would be a press release if Eight Mile Records was licensing AI covers?
southwindcg•3mo ago
flave•3mo ago
pascal2csharp•3mo ago