I’m gonna jump in as an artist who is on Bandcamp, doesn’t use AI, and is in the middle of a two week track a day competition:
Here’s a playlist of what I’ve done up to today:
Good
This is a noble pursuit but I am curious about the classification criteria.
How would you treat those who used it as a tool for composition, progression ideas compared to those who literally create the entire thing using generative methods?
I wouldn’t overthink it. When they say ‘substantially’ they’re basically just banning obvious slop. If you make something people genuinely enjoy you’re not likely to get policed if the track has a little AI assist somewhere in the pipeline
What stops me from asking an LLM “Give me 5 chord progressions and scales that sound like Adele” and glue it together? How could it be detected?
There is in fact nothing stopping you from simply using the exact same chord progressions as her. No AI is needed for this task. You could literally take her sheet music, white out the lyrics and tune, and build your new song directly on top of the existing structure if you wanted. Chords and scales are not protected in any way :p
I’m not sure they have everything in place to actually enforce the policy yet, just laying the groundwork and setting expectations for artists and fans. Agreed it will be interesting to see where/how they draw the line.
I think this whole AI thing will push people towards artists they already know. I’m already seeing myself doing this elsewhere like youtube where I rarely click something I’m not subscribed to because there’s so much slop. It will make it more difficult for new artists to be heard.
No it won’t, you don’t find new music by throwing darts blindly in the wall, look at who produced a band/who the band tours with and thanks on their album. A little googling and you too can have 1800 albums in your Bandcamp collection
I don’t think we disagree, I think irl and network recs (from bands you already like) will become more important. I think algorithmic discovery, which a lot of people currently rely on on spotify/pandora, will diminish.
I do think it will make it harder for new acts to get their stuff out there though.
It’s pretty easy to show video or live proof of you making music, I don’t think it will cause a significant shift in the way you suggest.
I think there’s a difference between asking for chord progressions or tips and tricks to get a certain sounds and telling a LLM to generate a song.
With the former there’s usually zero originality, but I see how it can be useful as a starting point. People who do the latter can go f*ck off, especially if they try to make money off of it.
One obvious feature of “Hi I’m AI” usually is that one artist with no actual profile or link or footprint outside of Bandcamp that has apparently released 10 albums in a year.
Some just aren’t subtle. They can at least start there.
Goddamn right!
Ok, I guess. If you want to post AI musics, there’s sites dedicated to that.
Bandcamp better increase it user support so it can handle false possitives.
Truth…and you’re probably correct I’m just being a snob…I will say I definitely find most of my music via the label or producer If not from the band, but I’m old and my music taste is metal
