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Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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Don't they have this? I hit the "don't recommend this channel" button and never see them again

it hides from recommendations, but not search results

It's always interesting to see how people use a site entirely differently from myself. I've only used YouTube to find a specific song/artist, so the only search result I'd click on is what I was looking for. From there, the recommendations are surprisingly decent. Do you usually search for a genre or something?

Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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I've been a big fan of AI music for background noise while coding

Same, though by surprise. I've been generating a very specific uncommon genre of music on Suno (a sort of Slavic accordion drum'n'bass - a totally random idea I had one day) and found myself listening to it more than I anticipated. I dislike most of Suno's vocal output but the instrumentals can be quite good especially in unusual fusions of genres.

Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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I've been a big fan of AI music for background noise while coding

AI music rocks. Especially the ones made on Udio, which I think it's the best model as of right now.

I hope we soon have a "Flux" like equivalent model, but for music, that you can run locally/fine-tune,etc...

Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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In ten years this will be as quaint as a blocklist for music that uses samplers would have been in 1980.

Not to say there’s no value today; most pure AI music is terrible and I don’t want to listen to it. But that’s a very temporary state of affairs.

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it hides from recommendations, but not search results

It's always interesting to see how people use a site entirely differently from myself. I've only used YouTube to find a specific song/artist, so the only search result I'd click on is what I was looking for. From there, the recommendations are surprisingly decent. Do you usually search for a genre or something?

I'm usually searching for movie trailers in specific genres

Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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I've been a big fan of AI music for background noise while coding

Same, though by surprise. I've been generating a very specific uncommon genre of music on Suno (a sort of Slavic accordion drum'n'bass - a totally random idea I had one day) and found myself listening to it more than I anticipated. I dislike most of Suno's vocal output but the instrumentals can be quite good especially in unusual fusions of genres.

> sort of Slavic accordion drum'n'bass

Interesting. Do you have an example?

Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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It’s ridiculous that YouTube doesn’t allow blocking of channels. I find the prevalence of fake movie trailers to be absolutely infuriating, and I do not understand why YouTube and the IP holders don’t nuke those channels, or at least let people block them!

YouTube as an app/website is broken beyond repair, I'm surprised they lasted long enough to be the de facto video hosting website...

Re: Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

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In ten years this will be as quaint as a blocklist for music that uses samplers would have been in 1980. Not to say there’s no value today; most pure AI music is terrible and I don’t want to listen to it. But that’s a very temporary state of affairs.

This isn't even really about the merits of AI music as a whole, it's about the vast majority of these channels being the music equivalent of blogspam. They're not even trying to do anything interesting with the medium, they exist purely to extract ad revenue by mass producing SEO-optimized content slurry.

I picked out a few random channels from this blocklist and some of them are posting new 2-3 hour compilations every day. The person running the channel is probably barely even listening to the tracks before before uploading them, assuming they're listened to at all, the whole process could well be completely automated.

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