I remain happy with my decision to leave streaming behind and curate my own listening around artists I know, recommendations from people I trust and a complete absence of any and all of this worthless slop.
Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
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Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, debating these corner cases feels like a distraction tactic. The reality is that the bulk of that 44% is total AI slop: one-sentence prompts entered into Suno to generate 1,000 tracks and extract money from subscribers who stream in the background. It's the same thing with writing. No one cares that you asked a chatbot to help you reword a paragraph in your essay. The problem is zero-effort slop delivered b…
Who is listening to that crap anyway when you got literal decades worth of great music to choose from?
The same people who read AI-generated stories about AI. Which is, roughly, most of us. There are AI-generated blog posts on the front page of HN multiple times a day. Right now, I see "I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs", which is AI slop. I'm sure there's more.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Effectively yes. There are plenty of music distributors that have “no fee” distribution where they simply take a percentage of any royalties. I suspect we are going to see that model quickly go out of favour though.
really? there are ways of putting music on Spotify that don't involve paying a fee upfront at any time?
Yes, last I checked at least LANDR, Amuse and Tunecore all had plans where you release for free and they take a % of royalties.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#34Tangent:
I assume this “AI-generated” music is created the same way an LLM generates text: use samples from a corpus strung together into a new [derivative] output.
But it seems plausible that algorithmic generation can be used at any stage of the process. How much disclosure do we (listeners) require? At what point is it unacceptable “AI-generated” music?
The answers are going to be subjective. And human. And dealing with this, I think, is going to take a direction like the “typewriters in college” headline from a few days ago - human involvement, low automation … things that don’t scale.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#35Great job guys! Almost halfway there! Keep working hard and we can make it to 100%!
Remember: AI use is mandatory and non-negotiable. Hopefully the Trump administration will be rolling out AI-use metrics for the whole population, so we can track progress against our goals.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#36Most of the videos uploaded to YouTube are worthless.
AI simplifies the creation, doesn't mean it's good and will be listened to. And if it will, then what's the problem?
You can talk about ethics, IP, etc. but we're not even there yet.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#37So we'll be going back to publishers as curators. Good for the publishers, I guess.
Why? HN isn’t “curating” the wave of AI-written tech article slop. Unclear if they should, readers here love it!
Hard to believe these models won’t get better and better at producing music that humans want to listen to.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#38Tangent: I assume this “AI-generated” music is created the same way an LLM generates text: use samples from a corpus strung together into a new [derivative] output. But it seems plausible that algorithmic generation can be used at any stage of the process. How much disclosure do we (listeners) require? At what point is it unacceptable “AI-generated” music? The answers are going to be subjective. And human. And dealin…
My understanding is music generation is more like stable diffusion. It generates a waveform as an image, then turns it into an audio file.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#39Youtube got hit by massive downfall in quality by this as well. It's absurd.
Re: Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
#40So we'll be going back to publishers as curators. Good for the publishers, I guess.
On a similar note I recently deleted a whole bunch of automated tests because if the AI is going to write most of the code then I should test it to make sure it's good! This won't work for all projects, but for my indie games it's a good idea.
> I recently deleted a whole bunch of automated tests because if the AI is going to write most of the code then I should test it to make sure it's good!
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You say you deleted the tests, because you "should test it"? The logic seems inconsistent.
Sanity checking LLM-generated code with LLM-generated automated tests is low-cost and high-yield because LLMs are really good at writing tests.