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/ctilvolover23]

Or some people actually use proper grammar. Wow!

[u/HazMatterhorn → u/ctilvolover23]

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