Consumers Prefer AI Music Until They're Told It's AI

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Isn't there always an undiscerning majority? You can get people to prefer Justin Bieber/Miley Cyrus music or whatever's being marketed in a given era. But hopefully that doesn't change the direction of how all music is made.

jmathai

I’m listening to more and more AI music on Spotify. It’s got little depth but it’s very catch on the surface. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a very quick race to the bottom and we will long for real music written by real people. At least some of us will. Streaming services are SO incentivized to play AI music they create themselves. No need to pay pesky royalties. It’s akin to LLMs taking over search…Google gets to keep users on their property where the can continue to show ads. Thank goodness my 2nd gen iPod still holds a charge and has all the MP3’s I’ve ripped from my cds.

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I won't ever listen to AI music, because there is no human soul behind it. It's my choice, I have made it. I will listen to worse music if a human has written it, performing it. You can listen to all sorts of great musicians on Spotify, but why do you go to live performances of real artists? The only AI 'art' I am open to using are AI-gen images for illustrating blog posts, etc., when the illustrations are not central or key to the post.