Love the idea of bandcamp, but sucks that there are no artists there I am interested in. I just download M4A (MP4 audio) files off of YouTube lol
I'm generally supportive of removing AI from artistic endeavors, but also wildly unfamiliar with bandcamp. I'm looking at it for the first time right now. Does it work like Deezer / Tidal or one of the streaming services where I can listen to things from my phone, or is it more of a website that you use to discover unsigned / smaller acts by clicking through a bunch of things and listening?
Bit of both. More on the indi/hobby side of things though.
It’s more like old iTunes and the like. No subscription, just buy albums. Artists define the price, and keep the majority of their revenue with some Fridays being Bandcamp Fridays where they get to keep all the revenue. You can download everything you own or you can stream it from the website or app on your phone also.
Only real downside with Bandcamp is that you won’t find some artists there but it all depends on what you listen to and want to find.
Great decision Bandcamp, I use Bandcamp to support musicians
I was buying some LPs recently and saw one that caught my attention. I looked them up and almost all their content included some form of AI.
it's bullshit.
fuck AI.
YES! YES!! YES!!! I hate having to sift through that tripe when exploring certain genres.
FUCK YEAH!
Good
Bandcamp W. One of the platforms I buy music from and surf other than soundcloud. You can find some banger albums by genre on there.
I hope all my fave autistic musicians are not mistaken for AI and deleted under a false-positive detection of being AI. At least my fave's album releases all pre-date AI music generators. Safe, for now.
I think safer would be to encourage all purely AI-generated be tagged as such, so it can be optionally toggled out of view, and then there's less incentive for the unscrupulous to simply hide that it's AI generated. Banning increases the "hide that it's AI" vibes, not the "don't do AI" vibes. Prohibition does not prevent. Prohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse.
lol I can imagine decades ago people cheering for songs that use sampling to no longer being allowed on a site. We really never learn sigh.
That really was a thing. There was a backlash towards sampling for like a decade and nowadays, no one seems to even notice or care. Same with synthesizer based music…so many people argued that it was not music and not real and that it was going to ruin music.
It genuinely astonishes me how regressive people turn about AI in art, its like I'm talking to Bill O Reilly complaining about modern art.
I think there’s a place for AI in music, just like sampling, and it has to be regulated, but not straight-up banned (or regulated in a muddy way like “substantially made by AI”).
It doesn’t help that everyone has their own personal opinion on how much AI should be allowed, though, and we’re never gonna reach a solution that everyone agrees on.
You already can't tell if a song is generated with AI.This is never going to work, watch them backpedaling in a year.
So 99% AI is OK if the last 1% was made by non-AI, a real dog bark or so.
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