sample size of one, but I cancelled my spotify after the non-stop AI music slop.

Not out of principle, but because it's so incredibly distinctive and annoying. There's the composition that's bad (it's like all soul and gospel which was fun the first few times but got really old), but also the actual sound quality on a lot of AI generated music is awful.

Same thing with anything that's AI written. I just can't do it. It's like really bad fanfiction where someone tries too hard with forced metaphors and really stitlted pacing.

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Sharlin 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How do you use Spotify to get exposed to AI music? An honest question. I mean, I'm sure it's chock full of it but at least my usage patterns don't expose me to it.

	▲	wiether 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also interested by the answer! All the playlists that Spotify generates for me are made of songs from actual humans and matches my taste. The only times I'm exposed to slop is when I listen to generic playlists from Spotify or dodgy sources.

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zahlman a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> but also the actual sound quality on a lot of AI generated music is awful.

I feel like I don't quite know what to listen for here.

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californical a day ago | parent | next [-]

There are a couple sound-quality based tells that I've noticed, off the top of my head

1. Usually weird little "flickers" of sound - like how a candle gives you mostly constant light but there are little flashes of bright and dark. AI generated music tends to have little distortions scattered throughout like that. As the models have improved they're less obvious but still absolutely there if you try to listen to any individual 'instrument' or 'track'

2. very low dynamic range - loud sounds and quiet sounds are much more similar volume than you'd expect from most real music, and things that are supposed to fade or taper-off in volume are unnatural

	▲	zahlman 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> very low dynamic range ... Isn't that just how music is (increasingly) produced nowadays? Did the Loudness War ever actually end?

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komali2 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Hi-hats. When testing sound quality, pay attention to the hi-hats. Once you notice the shimmer introduced by audio compression to a hi-hat you can't unhear it, and for whatever reason AI generated music replicates this.

	▲	TheCapn 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>and for whatever reason AI generated music replicates this. Its within the training set I believe. The AI is being trained off compressed audio I was listening to a podcast last year (forget which, or I'd attribute credit) and one of the tells AI researchers look for when trying to determine if music is AI generated or not is the compression artifacts. AI likely has gotten better at hiding it since then, but AI would include compression artifacts on the final product because of the prevalence of it in training data.