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?
https://youtu.be/3Nlb-m_vKYM?t=2m57s
tldw: ai generated music is very good at making music that sounds physically correct to a human ear, but since it’s all generated as one track, it doesn’t have any source stems. and as a bonus it’s probably been trained on shitty mp3s!
so:
download the song, somehow.
use an (ironically ai) stemmer to split the song. the latest audacity releases come with this tool preinstalled under the openvino effects.
then listen to the stems individually to listen for mush. if it sounds noisy with some bleeding between each stem, and/or if you can’t hear the rests where an instrument isn’t playing, it may be ai.
effectiveness may vary by genre.
I actually have the latest Audacity, for macOS if that matters. I don’t see anything called openvino in the Effects menu.
I’ve only really ever used Audacity to shorten songs, like to make ringtones.