I ran across Rick Beato's video about this last night - I'll post that at the end of this reply - and had

planned to post about "Velvet Sundown" this morning, but logged in to see you already had. Beato is also sure it's AI, btw, and he isn't happy about whoever is behind this AI slop getting paid off the work of other people whose music was stolen to train the AI.



It's homogenized crap. AI slop created only through the theft of all the copyrighted music the AI model used could be trained on.



If it DOESN'T bother you that generative AI was trained via the theft of the world's intellectual property, then you're giving a thumbs up to the theft and are trying for an ethics-free and conscience-free discussion of something that exists only because of that theft.

LudwigPastorius (reply 6) isn't the only person who suspects Spotify created this and is doing so to trick customers and fill up playlists with music they own and can use without paying royalties. (Spotify has already been filling up playlists with mediocre music that's apparently work for hire that they had created so they wouldn't have to pay royalties. I posted about Rick Beato's video on that a year or two ago.)

So this is a two-pronged attack on real music by real artists - first by using illegally trained AI, and then by diverting their users' attention to fake music Spotify owns and through that stealing revenue from real artists on Spotify.

If you think that's defensible, I'd like to hear that defense.


EDITING OUT Rick Beato's new video, since it's already in this OP.


Editing to add a short clip from the earlier Rick Beato video I referred to above:




Editing again to link to a DU thread from last December about another way Spotify harms musicians and exploits users not caring enough about who created the music:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219837180