AI-Generated Song Tops Country Music Chart (go.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/12/2320241/ai-generated-song-tops-country-music-chart
- Source link: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/ai-generated-country-song-topping-billboards-country-digital/story?id=127445549
> The new country tune, " [4]Walk my Walk " by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month. That success has garnered mixed reactions from music fans and artists alike, particularly on TikTok, where hundreds of users have posted videos addressing the tune and others discussing the music in the comments.
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> Billboard has acknowledged Breaking Rust is an AI act and said it is one of at least six to chart in the past few months alone. "Ultimately, this feels like an experiment to see just how far something like this can go and what happens in the future and in other disciplines of art as well," senior entertainment reporter Kelley L. Carter told ABC News. "AI artists won't require things that a real human artist will require, and once companies start considering it and looking at bottom lines, I think that's when artists should rightly be concerned about it," she added.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~Tablizer
[2] https://slashdot.org/~fjo3
[3] https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/ai-generated-country-song-topping-billboards-country-digital/story?id=127445549
[4] https://open.spotify.com/track/17HsyeI0Eq06n3XRntZ4DT?si=348ad69f120f4344
We knew country music lovers had poor taste (Score:4, Insightful)
And now we have proof!
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Like that ICE woman and her puppy?
Bots feeding bots (Score:3)
Wonder which AI company gamed the Spotify streams. Seems like it would be a major boon for their models if they produced a chart topping artist.
I'd rather have AI music (Score:3)
Than a herd of vein celebrities and their followers. I need a soundtrack to my peaceful life, no more irrelevant celebrity news and drama.
Re:I'd rather have AI music (Score:4, Funny)
> Than a herd of vein celebrities and their followers.
I heard the music of vein celebrities goes right to the heart for their fans.
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To the heart of the matter, as Don Henley would say, I think that what I crave in music is an artist who can reflect and understand my human experiences. With AI, what are people to become? Their experiences reflected by AI's? By and algorithm? It seems that after many "reflections", humans will become more like AI's.
Algorithm (Score:2)
"Pop music is algorithm based. So whats the difference?" - Jony Cache
To what extent was it AI generated? (Score:2)
Were the lyrics generated by AI? Were they tweaked or modified by a person? Is any of the music "real" or all generated by AI? I can't seem to find specifics on any of that.
Here's a [1]YouTube link [youtube.com] for those who don't pay for Spotify.
Song starts out kinda flat but the vocals really build at the end.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU71XDWYeIk
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None of the music is "real." No human talent. Here's a video from a few weeks ago where Rick Beato did just this very kind of thing as a bit of warning: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] . Very interesting. The software came up with a couple of different-sounding songs. Beato didn't do anything other than the initial prompt that generated the lyrics, and then he fed that into another AI that generated the music and the vocals.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKxNGFjyRv0
Not quite (Score:4, Interesting)
Rick Beato explains it here. It did not top the charts. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGremoYVMPc
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OMG, that is one of the shittiest songs ever. The lyrics are like stream-of-consciousness from a pothead.
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I mean, everyone is going to have their own opinion. I'm not a fan of the song, or really the genre, but it doesn't seem better/worse than the majority of the newer music being put out. It does sound artificial, but even that isn't unheard of with real artists these days.
Re:Not quite (Score:4, Informative)
Well it did top a chart - the Digital Download (IE purchase for $0.99) Chart, with.... 3,000 sales. As Rick says, "So it cost $3,000 to get the #1 spot."
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FooledGPT
Coulda happened anywhere (Score:3)
Like, haven't we been reading AI assisted articles for a year or two at WaPo?
We know for certain they use it in the comments, and "for you" to, you know, "curate" articles tailored magically to your specifications without you needing to do differently.
In other words use the system we provide, particularly the app, and we will take care of everythiiiiing.
So, also, the AI comments input filter flagged the whiff of criticism of The Mad King. It was mild.
So I cancelled my subscription pretty much right away.
Thanks Jeff Bezos for driving a spike into the heart of American freedom.
Basic income looking better yet? (Score:1)
Uncanny vallety crossed?
The sound of inevitability (Score:1)
I just listened to the track. It's really good and it doesn't surprise me that it hit the top of the charts. Normal people don't care whether something is AI-generated or not - they only care about how good it is. The pop chart will be next.
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To each his own. To me nothing sounds worse than auto-tuned -sounding country music.
There is no country for old men... (Score:2)
The Bellamy brother and John Anderson say it well...
[1]https://www.bing.com/videos/ri... [bing.com]
[1] https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=youtube+bellamy+brothers+no+country&mid=7011A14332D9CD41FD747011A14332D9CD41FD74&FORM=VIRE
The name for this (Score:2)
Lazy consumerism. A lot of folks appreciate familiarity to the point that network executives are put in place to make sure that movies, tv, songs, etc have certain elements to guarantee a particular reaction. The sad part is there are actual artists out there trying to make a difference, trying for some recognition who may never get their opportunity
Customized music is the future (Score:2)
I can envision a future where everyone has their own AI agent who will generate music they like to hear, anytime they wanted it.
And anyone can share what they like with other people, without the pesky stuff like copyright blocking them.
Similarly for novels and movies.
That will be the end of so-called "content creators" who produce junk content and make a living by creating lots of them.
Yes, but... (Score:3, Funny)
How many of those 3 million streams were other AIs hoping to use the music as training input?
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Mainstream country music has been pop rock with twang and even dumber lyrics (not that pop is typically profound) for decades now. Bo Burnham's country song really says it a lot better than anything else I've seen yet.
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Yeah this is about as much country as Lorde's Royals is rock...
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Not many. Each AI company only needs to download the song once. It's not like web content that gets hit every time a user makes a request.
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You're assuming the downloaders are well-written. But they themselves are probably AI-generated and might download the song thousands of times... just like the stupid AI scrapers were doing to my git repo until I took counter-measures.
Also, I wouldn't put it past AI song generators to artificially generate some streaming revenue... why not?
Re: Yes, but... (Score:1)
See how AI DS works, AI is stupid and can't reason, but AI is smart enough to astroturf its way to No. 1?