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?
Sometimes it can be hard to tell, but usually it’s the lyrics that give it away. The old Sora models made very basic lyrics that all had very simple rhyming schemes. The newer models tend to be a little more adventurous. Another way to tell is if the vocals sound unnatural in how a human would pronounce things or the cadence is unnatural.
That said, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with liking an AI song. Not giving them the views is good, since AI music is exploitative, but if you like the song, enjoy it. I’ve got a few that I like to listen to. The way I view it, as long as you’re not giving these companies money for producing or consuming AI slop, you’re not doing anything wrong.
I agree with you about the lyrics. I think if it’s a cover song, it’s gonna be harder to tell, in a vacuum. I suppose I have my answer in how many songs this channel is churning out. What really did it for me was where the quality would dip. They act like they’re actually doing these as performances in a studio, but there are lines being delivered that no reasonable person would sing that way and stamp with their approval. Because with a cover song, the lyrics have already been written and you have the song, you just change it in some way.