I found an awesome 80s style cover of one of the Kpop Demon Hunters songs on YouTube. I still like it — but the channel has dozens of videos including 5-6 of any given song, they make more than one a day, and when people ask them to go on Spotify, they say they won’t — which is interesting because Spotify just banned AI generated music. So I’m 99% sure they’re an AI band. My point is, I can’t help liking the song, so I feel like we’re screwed because that could happen to anyone. (FWIW I’ve downloaded the song so I can play it offline. So they don’t make money from my plays.)
So my question is. How do we know? And what can we do?
For sure? I don’t think it’s likely there’ll be a way. You can only get best guesses.
In my case it’s mostly intuitive, a sort of uncanny valley but for listening that clues me in that something’s off, and then I start looking for stuff actively. If the “band” has many different genres or varied styles, if I go to older videos and the singing is different or the voice is altogether a completely different one, if there’s no social media presence, if there’s no interaction with the comments, if the account’s relatively new, if there’s no sense of improvement in a natural human way (as in they clearly got better at playing), etc.
But nothing will ever be enough for me to be 100% sure unless it’s extremely evident.