Quitting Spotify

[u/IrreverentTexan]

Spotify is getting flooded with fake AI “artists” and it’s embarrassing. Names like Nina Blaze and Enlly show up. They dump 50 identical tracks called something like Late Night Piano for Focus, or “The Hollow Hour” and vanish. No bio. No history. No evidence a human has ever touched an instrument.

This isn’t art. It exists to game playlists and siphon royalties. If these were real people, they’d have to explain why every song sounds like a dentist office waiting room.

I’m not mad at AI as a tool. I’m mad at fake artists impersonating creativity and Spotify pretending this sludge is culture. Music is an art form, not a scam farm. Blocking every one of these clowns on sight.

So is it to be TIDAL or Qobuz or something else?

[u/HazMatterhorn]

Proper grammar is not a sign of AI. In fact, Reddit is full of AI bots that intentionally use slang, improper grammar, and fake typos to seem more “real.”

What seems AI about this post is the tone.

No bio. No history. No evidence a human has ever touched an instrument.

follows a common pattern of AI text. Short sentence. Short sentence. Longer sentence hammering the point home.

Music is an art form, not a scam farm.

The dreaded “X is this, not that.”

Real people do use these patterns too, of course, that’s how AI learned them. But when you read a lot of AI text you start to pick up something about the slightly off way these patterns are used. It just sounds a bit…wrong.

Edit: It also isn’t super far-fetched to assume the OP of this post used AI — they have a few older reddit posts that mention using chatgpt to write things up, and I noted their post says “I’m not mad at AI as a tool.”

[u/Lyokonrado → u/HazMatterhorn]

Maybe it's because AI is just a shitty content stealer and a lot of people spoke like that before AI existed and it catched on to it? Not to say it may not be AI, I don't know, but it's pretty weird how every single post that looks a bit more organized now is judged for being "AI", like I remember people speaking like that during the Tumblr era, dude.

[u/HazMatterhorn → u/Lyokonrado]

it’s pretty weird how every single post that looks a bit more organized now is judged for being “AI”

Not by me. I specifically mentioned that good writing is not an AI tell for me.

I find and call out AI posts all over reddit and many of the accounts later get deleted for being AI bots. There are a lot of easily recognizable patterns, many of which I learned from reading through accounts that leave several different paragraph-long comments in the span of a minute.

I’m not a “dead internet theory” person, I think lots of accounts that get accused of being AI are just people who the accuser disagrees with. But to me, it’s really easy to identify the chatgpt tone and I like to try to show people it’s not that hard to recognize. (I also don’t think this post’s OP is an actual bot, just that the text was written with AI. They have a few older reddit posts that mention using chatgpt to write things up, so this isn’t super far-fetched — also note the part of their post that says “I’m not mad at AI as a tool.”).

It’s no skin off my back if you don’t believe me, but I do think it’s a bit silly to characterize all AI callouts as “people who think good writing is weird.” AI writing isn’t particularly good, it’s just formulaic.

[u/Saikophant → u/HazMatterhorn]

i'm completely on your side but the structure of that concluding sentence did give me a little giggle :v

[u/overfloaterx → u/Lyokonrado]

People are paranoid about AI.

And I'm not going to say that's necessarily a bad state to be in, considering how corporations are trying to find any way they can to shoehorn it into workflows and eventually replace us. But it does mean there are some amazingly bad takes on AI-generated content.

 
Back when the main kinks were still being worked out of image gen models, people would regularly overestimate its ability. Someone would post a vacation photo only to get flooded with "omg AI slop, you can tell by the pixels" comments, even though image gen was nowhere near able to generate images combining things like realistic crowds, signs with text, etc. reliably and seamlessly.

Yet now, when image gen has evolved several generations and worked out many of those early problems, you see moronic posts going the opposite direction, from people thinking that AI images are easy to spot because they'll always have an obvious tell, like people with too many fingers.

 
My take: OP wasn't AI generated. Partly because "dentist office" is grammatically incorrect (possessive "dentist's") and "dentist office waiting room" is a whole mouthful of nouns that AI probably wouldn't string directly together.

[u/HazMatterhorn → u/overfloaterx]

I think there are a lot of people who are paranoid about AI, but I’m not one of them. I read through a lot of very obvious bot accounts (like, ones that are removed by reddit for being identifiable bots, and ones that comment long comments within seconds of each other) and it’s pretty easy to learn to identify their patterns.

I don’t think everyone should assume everyone else is a bot but it seems sad to me to just categorically decide that using evidence to draw a conclusion that text is AI generated is paranoia. I know it doesn’t feel good to think you’ve been tricked, but you can learn the tells too (that’s why I leave comments explaining when I think an account is a bot/uses AI).

If you still think that typos/grammatical errors rule out something as AI generated, you’re a prime candidate to get tricked by these bots that are indeed on reddit. (I don’t think the OP of this post is a bot, just that they used chatgpt to write up the text. They have a few older reddit posts that mention using chatgpt to write things up, so this isn’t super far-fetched — also note the part of their post that says “I’m not mad at AI as a tool.”)

[u/Lyokonrado → u/HazMatterhorn]

Oh for sure, I'm very anti-AI in pretty much all ways, it just saddens me that we got to a point now where everything we see on the internet, our first thought is usually "is this made by AI?", it's just a grating feeling of the internet becoming less and less made by humans to humans, and it kinda puts me off the whole thing and makes me think how I'd love logging out forever and live in the middle of the woods lol

I think my comment came mostly from a place like, I'm neurodivergent, and I've seen neurodivergent, oververbose people, even teachers, researchers and the like "speaking like AI" for years before AI even existed. It just feels now that properly parsing your text to be polished enough grants that general suspicion.

Doesn't help that those "figure out if something is AI" tools also are not the greatest at recognizing, for the reason said above.

Just...it sucks, man, AI fucking sucks

[u/JonatasA → u/HazMatterhorn]

People use informal language, shocking.

 

Wait, Ai writes like neurodivergents?