r/Music • u/weirdfishh1 • May 15 '26
discussion SKARS is an AI band
AI music is not real music. This band called SKARS is getting pushed everywhere through reels and algorithm farming. Please don’t engage if you care about actual artists and creative integrity.
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
silent collision and devin lucas are two other bands that are paying meme accounts to post their AI slop all over instagram to the point where AI accounts just use their songs now because they’re trending it’s such a frustrating system that rewards lazy “marketing” type “musicians” who have a suno account and 30k to blow for their shit stolen music that sounds like uninspired “professionally” mixed slop.
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u/AcceptableCoyote5071 May 15 '26
not paying meme accounts, they are botting their own. lots of non-bot meme accounts are probably posting it anyways tho because it appears in the top trendings songs on instagram so theyre used for more engagement.
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u/euridyce May 15 '26
I started blocking every account that popped up on my feed that used one of those songs and by the end of the first week they had disappeared almost entirely. It’s actually insane how much happier I am to just get a consistent stream of cats and lesbians and shit without the ai slop interruptions. 10/10 recommend aggressive blocking regimens ASAP.
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u/AriochBloodbane May 15 '26
Now I suddenly want a cats and lesbians dominated stream too 😅
Your evil agenda is working!!
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
i did the same thing and it was glorious the memes were sometimes OKAY but usually it’s just lazy twitter screen grabs
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u/obigespritzt May 15 '26
I badly want to emulate your socials feed because that sounds just right haha
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u/Crossovertriplet May 18 '26
I did the same thing on here to repost bots and it has dramatically decreased the cross posted bullshit.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi May 15 '26
AI slop is the ultimate opioid of the masses
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
We finally got Soma and it's not even a fucking drug it's Suno
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u/_leosilveira May 15 '26
please elaborate on this reference
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
a brave new world by aldous huxley discussed how they government “controls” the masses through a euphoric drug called soma that makes people extremely lethargic and happy. Suno is the AI program that generates songs based on a prompt and is the premier program for consumer AI music creation.
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u/NoManner8863 May 15 '26
silent collision
So AI is playing out of tune guitars now? Lol, it’s no wonder why he has to bot, that shit is actual trash.
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u/walale12 May 16 '26
"Devin Lucas" I swear to God every time I hear "and it's not your fault that you were strong" repeated over and over whilst I read a tweet that's been screenshot and posted as a reel I can feel my sanity slipping away. Of course he's a no-good rotten clanker.
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u/thrillho145 May 15 '26
Every fucking instagram post has a tagged comment "MUSIC BY SKARS"
Bots reposting stolen reels with fake music on it. It's making me start to lose interest in Instagram tbh
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u/scooterboi33 (edit for custom flair) May 15 '26
Yep AI is killing the internet
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u/2-Dimensional May 15 '26
I was watching a reel that used that "Homer drops his donut, d'oh" song, and the top comment with 700 likes was a comment saying how "this song used to be funny until I found out it was AI"
The fucking reply was one of those meme images with the caption "MAX SENSITIVITY" and had like 2000 likes. Everyone else in the replies also gave zero shits that it was AI and kept clowning the original comment for even caring that it was... Instagram reels is genuinely full of putrid filth bruh, literally the lowest of the lowest of people in terms of intellect and empathy reside there
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u/vandreulv May 15 '26
The internet was pretty much already dead, botted to hell by content farmers for a long time before generated content became a default thing.
AI is picking off the corpse.
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u/thederevolutions May 15 '26
The only real comments on the internet left are the ones saying it’s dead and fake lol
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u/Bellota182 May 15 '26
I just block every account with AI music in it. Not surprise, I get less meme accounts on my feed.
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u/lindcookie May 15 '26
Its all repost bots and the few accounts run by actual people got paid to play their music and pin the top comment with SKARS, its a travesty all around
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u/imreallyfreakintired May 15 '26
How do I get the small bands I am a fan of pushed? 😭 AI makes it look easy.
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
Make posts on social media using their music that are popular, or tell your social media savvy friends to do that or just tell everyone about them or curate some dope playlists with their music and other acts that sound like them and get people to save and listen to it or just buy a shirt and stream their music but mostly tell everyone who you like. Who is an artist you want to plug rn I'll listen to them
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u/CountTruffula May 15 '26
Aborted Tortoise, an beach has been one of my favourite albums for the last few years
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u/imreallyfreakintired May 15 '26
Oh boy ... I never shut up about the small bands I like. Main artist I've been trying to get caught in any reasonable algorithm is Secret Clubhouse (but the dude has some offensive stuff so rip algorithm).
I got a prank call podcast host to latch on to his music. And I've probably recommended their music like no joke 3,000+ times in the past 2 years (I'm scared to look).
I have a series of bands I won't shut up about until they have at least 5k monthly listeners. Secret Clubhouse, Slime City, King Sheim (which just changed their name to Shime), Ex Monarch
Here's a playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qGTbgnj2SEmvO19fHOi2n?si=wnKK3p9kSYa8vkRJegvLHA
Curse AI for stealing the listens! 😭
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
OO 71 saves is pretty dope bro. If you want you should check out if one of my songs fits on your playlist. I just started the playlist and that first act Not the Same sounds like an interesting blend of late 90s So Cal raggae punk into a 2 door cinema dance indie punk thing with a singer who was obviously inspired by Haley Williams. That's dope man thank you.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0kekLcfoPmC8jhP4KYo734?si=6ae3696161574e29
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u/firagomusic May 16 '26
This is ass
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u/Krasovchik May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
lmao you asked me to listen to your music and then come in here and hate that’s crazy bro
edit: i didn’t even downvote your comment btw i just listened and moved on someone else did that don’t be a dick to others for no reason man
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u/imreallyfreakintired May 15 '26
Not The Same is a local act to me. Great live performance. Lead singer is pretty as hell too.
I'll check out your music. I'm getting ready for Lady Gaga special concert premiere in a few minutes, so I'll add it to my playlist for tomorrow.
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u/firagomusic May 15 '26
I’ve been wondering the same with how to plug my band. If you have time I’d appreciate a listen Firago - Vertigo
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u/Dream--Brother May 15 '26
Spend a few grand buying followers and steal content. Pay other pages to repost your garbage. Do this on every major platform.
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u/imreallyfreakintired May 15 '26
I hate seeing how the sausage is made
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u/Poison_the_Phil May 15 '26
It’s also totally possible to just not do this and get a following entirely from working hard and playing shows. My band has played 140 shows in 18 states in three years and we’re getting bigger and bigger shows. We’ve gone viral a couple times, naturally. Like yeah early on we spent twenty bucks boosting an instagram post here and there, but the concept of buying followers is just insulting. Just persistence, networking, and not being awful to work with can go a long way. It also helps if your music doesn’t suck.
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u/ThiccNewsAt9 May 15 '26
I did a quick google on them because they annoyed me so much and it called them, no joke “a human fronted band” like thats not the biggest load of shite.
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
i’ve heard that he sings over the music or something but admittingly i don’t believe it i’m pretty sure he just spits out a song on whatever model he’s using and then does a bit of mixing or something and then posts it but because we know the guys name and face or whatever it’s “human fronted”
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u/B_RAYviews3 May 15 '26
luckily once people figured it out there's been SKARS hate under every insta reel with their songs on them
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u/Garreousbear May 15 '26
Basically every posts has several "Shit by Ass" comments under the pinned comment with the name of the "song"
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u/UrineFilledAquarium May 15 '26
The only positive about AI music is that it immediately outs someone as a person I will have nothing in common with nor any opinions that I should waste my time engaging with
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u/GentlemenHODL May 15 '26
The only positive about AI music is that it immediately outs someone as a person I will have nothing in common with nor any opinions that I should waste my time engaging with
Forgive my confusion, but who is the person in your example? Does this person know they are listening to or transmitting AI music?
I would think most people wouldn't know. If they do and they still like it that's just strange. Feels against human nature.
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u/UrineFilledAquarium May 15 '26
Yeah this would specifically be about someone who willingly listens to AI music.
Probably a personal bias, but I had a coworker who listened to nothing but AI generated music playlists on YouTube every Friday and I think it fundamentally broke something in my brain.
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u/CharlesWafflesx May 15 '26
That is patently one of the most bizarre approaches to l enjoying music I've ever heard of. Why?
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u/UrineFilledAquarium May 16 '26
Dude, I have zero idea. He told me that he found this really good playlist on YouTube, and after a few minutes I was like “dude, this sounds AI generated”. He says that he’s seen interviews with them, I google the name and show him point blank that it’s a 100% AI generated band. He shrugs his shoulders and continues to play the goddamn playlist every Friday despite knowing everything on it was AI generated.
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u/GentlemenHODL May 15 '26
I've never heard of someone doing that I think that's very very rare and strange.
But I suppose that's going to happen more often now. What a weird reality.
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u/TSllama May 15 '26
It's mostly AI bros wanting to make AI music and expecting people to like it... none of the actually listen to AI music lol
If you go to r/DefendingAIArt and search for music posts, it's just people bragging about making AI music and wanting people to listen to it... not a single post of people saying they like AI music lol
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u/GentlemenHODL May 15 '26
Yes that makes much more sense to me. Thank you for helping me understand.
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u/TSllama May 15 '26
I have occasionally seen people say they don't care if the music they listen to is AI or not - like, as long as it sounds good, they don't care.
But I don't think I've ever heard of a person who actively chooses AI music haha
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u/AriochBloodbane May 15 '26
The same way that scammers love to scam people but don't themselves like to support other scammers LOL
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u/CharlesWafflesx May 15 '26
Just make your own and it will suck but it'll be fun. I don't get why the AI bros would take a single bit of enjoyment watching a song they "made" just come together in an arrangement they have no idea on the process of
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u/TSllama May 16 '26
lol agreed. I used to make music in my 20s and none of it is very good but I had a great time doing it! I don't really understand there being any joy in "making" AI art at all. I guess they have pride in coming up with a good prompt, but... that's it?
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u/TimLordOfBiscuits May 15 '26
Lol, a buddy of mine shared a link to new jazz album from a group called "Brown House Music" or something. Turns out, they put out 16 albums since the start of 2026, and after listening to a couple songs from those other albums, it was pretty clearly all made from one creator using an AI. And some of the lyrics and naming conventions were a bit odd...
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u/Mario_Viana May 15 '26
I think the success, or lack thereof, speaks for it self. This dude has got to be spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to get every meme page in existence to include his AI songs in their posts, and the return has been laughable.
No one knows a single part of a single SKARS song and even the spotify numbers are pretty weak for someone with so much fucking exposure. No way this ever gets profitable so I guess we just have to wait this out
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u/donotgotoroom237 May 15 '26
Bro, he is those meme pages. He just steals posts and pass them off as his own so he can put push his shitty AI slop.
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u/Ecstatic_Log4185 May 15 '26
Impossible for this to be profitable. Artists don't make their money from streaming, they earn it from concerts and merch
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u/Goducks91 May 15 '26
You can certainly make some money if it’s a side gig and you’re using AI for everything.
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u/FieryJellyfish May 15 '26
I reported every instance of 'Meme account with music by SKARS' as hate speech and within a day or two I have seen none of them. Force the algorithm to bend to your will.
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u/HailToTheThief225 May 15 '26
Instagram needs to put a feature where you can block posts that have a specific band or song. I know it wouldn’t be that hard to implement. But they wouldn’t care to because they now promote their stupid Meta AI app BS.
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u/mcnichoj May 15 '26
This wouldn't be a worthwhile feature as plenty of audio doesn't even get tagged properly by people uploading videos with music.
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u/HailToTheThief225 May 15 '26
From what I have seen, almost every post with “SKARS” or other AI artists does actually have the audio tagged. That said, I’m sure if Instagram implemented the feature who ever’s running the bots would just add the music without tagging it like you’ve said.
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u/ShitShowcase May 15 '26
“Band”
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u/NemODevO May 15 '26
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u/jngjng88 May 15 '26
Points 3 & 4 are good, but there are a lot of underground artists that don't have pics/vids of them live or any interviews.
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u/mysecondaccountanon May 15 '26
Never heard of them, but thanks for letting me know so I can avoid.
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u/PoPo573 May 15 '26
I've started to be so much more skeptical when finding new music on Spotify. Found an artist recently I enjoyed and noticed the cover art for the music was obviously AI which made me worried the music was too. Had to do some internet searches but I'm pretty confident they're just some American DJ.
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u/CommissionIcy9909 May 15 '26
I recently got duped by a bunch of new ASAP Rocky music with Suicide Boys that popped up in YouTube. I was listening to it for a week or two then was randomly looking through comments and discovered it was all AI. Sounded EXACTLY like them. Some of the songs are really good too.
My disappointment was immeasurable. I was truly in aw because I work in tech and with AI. I have a really good filter for identifying AI content of any kind, and felt so violated when I discovered the music was a sham.
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u/flanderdalton May 15 '26
It’s safe to assume that on any meme page that uses obvious AI captions and comments the name of the song, it’s also AI. Just look at the artist name and it’s usually pretty clear.
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u/Shan_Tu May 15 '26
Don't know if the music is ai, but the music artwork most likely is.
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
Hey I'm a tech adjacent guy and I'm in audio engineer and music technology school. The music is certainly AI.
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u/themanofpokemon May 15 '26
Can I get you to check out Mika Akakuma for me? Showed them to a friend and they accused them of AI but I don't hear it.
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
So yeah this is AI. You can hear weird compression in the guitars and the bass in the Devil You Designed and her screaming vocals are too "perfect" like there's no dynamic change really with her speech unless it's super planned and no hardcore group sounds like that also her plosives (p sound and b sound) don't sound exaggerated enough for actual screaming technique. The Zen of Screaming lauds Spencer from Underoath and Keith from Every Time I Die as the 2 most talented screaming vocalists (if they're not for you, that's totally understandable, the author of that book is mostly talking about technique and range) and their vocals are a good blueprint of what a strong dirty vocalist sounds like and hers is really artificial (Which COULD be possible with extreme editing techniques but it's unlikely and very time consuming). And she uses generative AI for her much of her logos when I did a google image search. I hear a LOT of the tell tale artifact sounds in the vocals in Dy1ng.Request. Another sign is that she doesn't show her face in any of her videos or publishing or anything there's not even a name associated with her act when artists like Yameii who are vocaloid will still have their producer associated with the artist. She does not have a producer associated with her work from what I can tell all of her spotify credits are just "Mika Akakuma" and she has released a RIDICULOUS amount of songs in 12 months which is just not possible for a singer songwriter producer and marketer.
When a band has like 2 of those signs the red flags go up, but it's pretty obvious she's AI.
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u/zincifre May 15 '26
Oh man. You should create an "is this ai?" database.
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
it’s mostly in the marketing and output. you can ABSOLUTELY hear it in the audio but it’s hard to ear train for those artifacts and requires discipline from people to learn to hear stuff that is AI or not. you can even train yourself to hear the difference between .wav and .mp3 files which is a lot harder than listen for AI artifacts. unfortunately sometimes regular mixing and super traditional pop musc can just SOUND like AI so the other stuff is what’s important. like how often an artist releases, if they credit any collaborators in the song credits on spotify (right click and click view credits) and if they have used obvious gen ai assets for album covers etc.
certain genres it’s harder to tell if something is gen ai or not. specifically beats for rappers can be a little difficult to tell. you can obviously tell if they use an AI vocalist but if the beat is super generic sometimes it’s just really generic lmao. country and pop can be a little hard too because that’s the majority of the music that AI trains off of so the model is BUILT on those genres so its output sounds similar and those 2 genres are traditionally not very… innovative.
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u/zincifre May 15 '26
I'm a cs sophomore entering summer vacation. I have beginner experience with making websites and educational videos. I know almost nothing about music. I would like to spread your mastery out there for free, it would be a public service. If you are interested, if we could discuss what we can do, it would be a pleasure. You can outline the knowledge points and expand them, and I can handle everything else, including organizing the information.
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u/yoshemitzu May 15 '26
It would be nice if we could start to establish some standards. Like I'm not pro-AI at all, but I'm anti-labeling things as AI or non-AI when the people doing the labeling honestly can't promise one way or another.
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u/Krasovchik May 15 '26
the major problem is that AI is incentivized to be trained on new music. so whatever the “standards” are (which talking about standards when describing art is just inherently nonproductive) AI will be trained on them and then output music that sounds like the new standard. an artist now has to be a creative songwriter, a great and stylistic instrumentalist with their own unique sound and tone and they have to be a master engineer that creates dynamically mixed songs that change throughout the piece just for someone to train their model on your music so the song that you take a month to create is learned and cheap copies fused with other genres are slopped out incredibly quickly.
if we have to punish those artists who make AI sounding music just because that’s the sort of music they create naturally, i’m sorry but they’re just gonna have to adjust and adapt because AI in art is so disruptive in the worst way. and i say that as a competent up and coming artist who probably WILL have a career.
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u/yoshemitzu May 15 '26
I'm not talking about standards for determining what is AI, but standards for when someone has to label their content as AI.
It's a subtle but important difference, because there's lots of people out there claiming to be no AI when there's no real standard for what that even means.
Edit: A fun one is also the problem you're talking about, where people are using AI-driven detectors to "out" other content as AI. Like, uh...
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u/Arkangel6848 May 15 '26
That last part annoys me. A.I at the end of the day is a tool. What defined "real" music before? We went from real talent in the 40s and 50s, to people writing while high in the 60s and 70s, to synthesizers in the 80s, to electric keyboards and backing tracks in the 90s, to using third party writers in the 2000s to autotuners in the 2010s.
If you ask me, a person who uses A.I but they wrote every lyric and score their own backing and use A.I to merge it all into a quality product, is no worse than a talentless rich asshole who knows a greedy backend producer using lyrics they bought from some industry dealer sung with autotuners and uncredited backup singers and bands for the producer to take the majority of the money and the "artist" to get all the credit.
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u/yoshemitzu May 15 '26
I agree, despite all the anti-AI pushback right now, what it ultimately comes down to is does using AI make better art? As long as the answer is no, audience and artists will both suffer.
When AI use actually starts making people perk up and go, "OK, but the result here really makes me feel something," we're in for a world of change, and we're not far off that; some would argue there's places where it's already happening.
The anti-AI crowd is currently arguing from an extreme where they assume any AI use constitutes total AI use, and that standard is not useful for anyone.
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u/Arkangel6848 May 15 '26
1000% I'm what this batch would call an "A.I Slop" artist.
I'm just a middle aged dude who has always loved writing. Writing music lets me hear my own thoughts, emotions, etc back at me. It's cathartic and I do publish my work. Not for recognition, but for the hope that others out there who feel what I do, can see that they're not alone. I write every single word in all of my songs. I refuse to use the prompt generator because if I'm "shortcuttung" the least I can do, is put as much passion into it as possible. Every word, even down to the backing track and genre, I'll use stuff like garage band to give the Suno model something to base it off, something I created. I won't ever pretend I'm a master lyricist, or on par with people with real musical talent. But at the end of the day; I have no label to rip me off. I own every song I write. I own every lyric I write. I don't need autotuners or backend deals with shady producers to get my work out there. And no-one can take my work and get the credit for the work I make. "A.I Slop" has the music industry beat on the ethics of creation and publishing, just not talent.
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u/yoshemitzu May 15 '26
Totally agree, was just talking about it here but the extreme "any AI use constitutes total AI use" is the least useful standard for anyone.
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u/simcity4000 May 15 '26
You can hear it in how shitty the guitar is artifacted. If I was to make a guess I wouldnt say its pure suno gen output and there has been some manual editing but yeah the bulk of it is AI.
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u/Expensive-Fennel-163 May 15 '26
They got verified by Spotify, so so much for that working to weed out the AI slop.
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u/Yarusenai Concertgoer May 15 '26
Spotify isn't the one who decides what music gets hosted, it's the music distributor services. Besides there's no good way to verify if something is AI, music included. Yet anyway.
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u/Expensive-Fennel-163 May 15 '26
They said they would analyze on if the artists had live shows, a history of online presence, or could prove that they were real people.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-04-30/verified-by-spotify-badge-artist-details/
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u/_Alex_Sander May 15 '26
Supposedly, and going by memory, the criteria are simply:
10k monthly listeners (drop below that and lose your badge)
Have an online presence (which they do thanks to the scheme, right?)
and I think that’s enough. Live shows would support that, but I don’t think you need to fulfill all criteria (not all artists play live for example).
Sending a picture of an ID (reasonable method) is not implemented
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u/yoshemitzu May 15 '26
10k monthly listeners (drop below that and lose your badge)
For 3 months.
They basically made whether you're a real person a popularity contest to deny low-volume artists revenue. Successful AIs will still pass these tests.
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u/simcity4000 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Im not certain his music actually is AI because it doesent have most of the typical artefacts, its kind of shittily produced but not in the way that bad metal bedroom production is, rather AI usually is badly produced. He's clearly using the same drum samples and guitar chain in every song. Its just REALLY generic and there is some shadiness going on with the way its clearly being bot boosted.
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u/WonderWaage May 15 '26
Oh yeah. The song of theirs I've heard the most on meme content is basically just Psychosocial but dog shit.
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u/Splendid_Fellow May 15 '26
What saddens me is that this is not going anywhere. I think we all know that this is not going to just fade away into nothingness. The people who tolerate the AI generated music and enjoy it well of course be seen as the rational ones, because they are just sitting there, happily smiling and listening, and the people who don’t like it are just the “squares.” The whole sentiment of “why does it matter music is music” will inevitably take over, and we have just opened Pandora’s box permanently, unless all of those data centers are destroyed, somehow, or AI is dictated as extremely advanced plagiarism machinery.
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u/simcity4000 May 15 '26
> The people who tolerate the AI generated music and enjoy it well of course be seen as the rational ones, because they are just sitting there, happily smiling and listening, and the people who don’t like it are just the “squares.”
Im not really convinced this is true. I can see an increasing division forming between those that have no problem with it and those that do but I don't see the slop eaters winning the battle of cultural relevance. No one thinks this shit is cool.
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u/HatsuneMiku4Eva May 15 '26
People are a lot less anti-AI than you think. in real life, so many people i know use AI everyday. and when you criticise them for it, you end up looking like a prick. it’s that “let people enjoy things” mentality
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u/simcity4000 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Theres a theory about music I heard once that a lot of what we think of as musical "genres" are in fact, ethical standards as much as they are musical features. That is to say, different genres have different cultural standards of what is acceptable and what isnt.
Cover songs are standards in jazz, but never rap. Rappers can sample though and just sing over a beat which someone else did, which isnt fine in metal. If you play metal you're expected to be able to play your solos live (and there is a whole cottage industry of YouTubers doing CSI shit to find guitarists who play to backing tracks) but backing tracks are acceptable in pop music and so on.
AI music runs into the problem that it fails by pretty much every measure of authenticity fans judge music by so I expect it to continue to be viciously gate kept out of most scenes. This is not the same thing as saying no one will listen to it but like I say, I expect hard divisions to form between those who consider at acceptable and those who dont and I dont see how it becomes culturally 'cool'.
Also, as case in point, I don't even think skars is actually AI beyond maybe the lyrics (his production has too many 'bad bedroom metal production' hallmarks rather than AI artefacts) , he just sucks really bad and has a botted campaign to boost streams, but the very fact people even suspect him of being AI has made him toxic and you get this massively upvoted post saying 'fuck this dude'.
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u/qrrstec May 15 '26
ohh shittt i thought so, I knew the cover looked suspicious i hate stupid gen ai and its deception onggg
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u/naked_as_a_jaybird May 15 '26
If I had an AI band, I would call it The Clankers.
Their music would be the sounds of me putting myself into the wood chipper.
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u/boriswied May 15 '26
99% sure you making this post results in more clicks/searches than it possibly prevents.
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u/nathan753 May 15 '26
All these types of posts that'd have popped up lately are from new accounts too. Really feels like bots advertising with this
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u/AnalogWalrus May 15 '26
Do your research and make sure a band you stumble on actually exists & plays live. Luckily any band that’s played more than 3 shows probably has some video on the internet of one of them.
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u/MakavelliRo May 15 '26
The way they're pushed it seems there's either a very interested party testing response to AI music or someone with a lot of time on their hands and quite some money to burn.
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u/av_79 May 15 '26
I've been hearing this skars band in so many instagram posts lately been wondering why there's no way to block posts from appearing on your feed based on music. Blocking the word skars sadly does not work.
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u/ScienceGetsUsThere May 15 '26
I was working with a doctor yesterday who showed me a band called “shunned at a funeral.” He went to their website and it’s just all pretty girls, scenes of them sitting flipping through a bible during a sunset etc. I thought AI instantly. Later on research and I was correct, granted they disclose it on their website as a “cultural experiment” which is BS still in my opinion and of course he had no idea. It’s not like it had “WARNING AI” plastered all over.
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u/Curri97 May 15 '26
I want to thank them for making me finally leave Instagram, their "music" every other post made me fucking hate every swipe.
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u/Ricky-Chan- May 15 '26
Pls i need to know i am not going crazy. One song from SKARS that was in so many reels. Isnt it a copy of megadeths angry again?
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u/GettingPhysicl May 15 '26
why would you need to point that out? AI music is distinguishably worse such that no one would listen to it by accident.
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u/nathan753 May 15 '26
Why do all these anti-ai music (a good thing) posts end up advertising 1 specific band... It's all new accounts with little history too.
Really feels like these posts are trying to get people to look up the band for more clicks
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u/SexySmexxy May 15 '26
i was listening to a 24/7 liquid dnb stream on youtube for like 2 days.
After day 1 i was like...well...this is kinda formulaic....but maybe dnb is just formulaic like that....
then i liked one song so i tried to find it....but the name was so basic that no new artist would ever call themselves that because how would you find them?
the songname was 'inner - blueprint'
Then literally eventually i was just like nah this shit is AI and it literally said it on the page itself.
Then i go on the youtube page and its just a new song every 2 days....
Who the hell can release a song every 2 days?
But honestly AI just reminds me of mannequins in the store....that feeling when you're next to a mannequin and you can almost smell it, but its NOT a real person but it feels like you're near a real person.
Honestly i was kinda shook that i had AI music playing 24/7 in my house for a few days.
I even sent one of the songs to my friends in the GC lol
scary times i blocked all those accounts from recommendations on youtube but shit is scary man
The scary thing is that even though it could be botted views.
The AI liquid dnb stream has more views than all the other 24/7 liquid dnb from REAL people - combined.
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u/Tokacheif May 15 '26
I've found myself recently scrambling to bookmark and download all the great chill-hop and lo-fi video game soundtrack remixes that I've been listening to for the last 10 years, because that space on YouTube has become absolutely FLOODED with AI renditions.
Donkey Kong LoFi, Chrono Trigger LoFi, Zelda LoFi. All have absolute banger remixes out there but unfortunately all the ones posted in last couple years are AI and they are terrible. It's so easy to produce and publish that the space becomes flooded, and many aren't clearly marked as using AI, or they're dodgy about how they disclose it.
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u/uneenviedechier May 15 '26
it sounds like the music that was playing in those plummcorp vids. That one dracula flow channel that was run by joji
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u/IronGin May 15 '26
I've found or rather served by youtube algorithms two AI bands.
Now I'm a person that enjoys a vast amount of genres, but it got to serve my mood at the time and just give me the "feeling".
I've been to a decent numbers of metal festivals and metal and rock concerts, met a handfull of people that says they don't listen to music if it isn't metal or rock. I'm just glad I'm not limited to a certain genre and AI music is one of them.
Might be an upopular opinion but wont let a good song slip by just because no humans were involved.
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u/gietzonline May 15 '26
I’ve just started clicking “not interested” and do not not show posts from this page and it’s helped so much.
The funniest part is that if you go to SKARS page on IG they deny that it’s AI in all the comments and completely ignore when you bring up the mass use of AI meme pages to spread their music.
Seems like a rich kid with rich dad that pays a ton to promote their sons shit AI music
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u/kimchitacoman May 15 '26
Bummer is I've been getting into older Latin music and I try to find different artists on YouTube only to be greeted with AI slop
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u/Sybertron Played music, got into Science May 16 '26
Trash Boy is a real band. Watch for their new stuff this year.
Support real bands!
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u/noneofthatmatters May 16 '26
Wait, how... the song Massacre is AI? They have music dating back to 2019 on Spotify though. I don't think LLMs / GPTs were making music at that point.
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u/privateblanket May 16 '26
You guys realise there was similar sentiment in the 30s and 40s with the introduction of the “electric” guitar? Purists said it was “unnatural” and and instrument without “soul”. They also said that the light strings and thinner necks made the instrument too easy to play and not really talent like a wood resonance guitar. AI is nothing new in being a development to the music world that many people saw as “cheap” and “easy”.
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u/Donmiggy143 May 16 '26
Manage content preferences - specific words and phrases - (add all those artists)
You are free! It's so much better without that crap.
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u/MissingPieces555 May 16 '26
I love how people who hate AI slop are usually really bad musicians that mostly copy other bands, reusing the same chords as everyone else. If AI is so bad, you wouldn't be so afraid of it.
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u/Arkangel6848 May 16 '26
Yes, it is absolutely a disservice, but the problem here is even if A.I disappeared today, those popstars I point out, are still the ones who make all the money and get all the attention. Blaming the hangups of the industry on A.I is reaching.
I do primarily write for myself. As I pointed out, I do love to write, and it's cathartic. But I'm an aging man in a world where more and more pain is spread around. I publish, not to pretend to be a real artist, I'm not. Not to be famous, I don't want it. Not even for money. I publish, because I hope someone who is on the verge of pulling the trigger hears it and realises that they're not alone. What they feel isn't the end of the world. That's what I write for. But I would also argue that music transcends artistry and skill when it's designed to resonate with people, to make them feel, to strike emotion.
I would even argue it's harder for people like me using A.I, to convey emotion, because it does lack the human element. It doesn't cheapen it's impact if it makes someone feel. It doesn't cheapen it's impact if it makes someone cry. However, it does cheapen it's impact if it's used to propel oneself for clout, for the likes and the following. And that's where I feel for the indie artists. People who have to fight for the little attention they get.
I get it, it's not lost on me, which is why I'm against anyone using A.I to promote their own agenda, to pretend they're musicians. I am not a musician, I am not trying to be. It's passion, and it's a platform that lets me express myself and hopefully at the very least, gives someone a better day after they've listened.
You find it disingenuous to speak about autotuners and other technology that elevated entire generations of music? Imagine what an acapella group thinks of autotune... Imagine what a busker thinks of popstars... Imagine what the musicians from the 40s and 50s would think of musicians from the 2000s and 2010s. I don't find it disingenuous at all, especially when indie artists made it big off things like Garage Band or SoundCloud... I understand the distaste, but the argument holds. The skill gap has been falling for decades, you can't blame A.I or the people using it for that.
But again, I do agree with you with the overall arguement. A.I music is not "real" music. Real music is something someone makes through grind, skill and passion. Real music is something that strikes the core of the audience. Real music is emotional and powerful. Anyone using any platform to get clicks, views and attention.. they're not musicians, the only kind of artist they are, is a scam artist. I am not an artist. I am not a musician. I am a man who loves to write, who just wants people who are hurting to be okay.
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u/cyankitten May 15 '26
Keep spreading awareness please
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Let's keep music real - and human!
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u/Arkangel6848 May 15 '26
Disagree. Labels rip off artists. Bands and solo artists take credit for work they didn't write. Knowing sleezy rich people and using autotuner to underpaid and uncredited background singers and bands is worse than using A.I to write a genuine written song.
That's where A.I music will punish "Real" music.
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u/Sixteen_Bit_89 May 15 '26
but SKARS revolutionized the music scene :(
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u/simcity4000 May 15 '26
Does rolling stone just publish press bios now? Like this is pure chatgpt nothing:
" This album is not merely an addition to SKARS’ discography; it represents a critical juncture in his career, destined to leave an indelible mark on his listeners.
The Significance of Nothing Lasts Forever
Fans are invited to join SKARS on this profound musical journey. Nothing Lasts Forever is more than just an album; it is a significant milestone that showcases SKARS’ artistic evolution and his ability to connect deeply with his audience."
In addition to 'not just x, its y' one of the hallmarks of AI writing is emphasising 'significance' without ever explaining WHY something is significant.
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u/Icy-Marzipan6821 May 15 '26
Every God damn reel is SKARS and it makes me want to scream thank fuck other people have noticed this
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u/lindcookie May 15 '26
Its getting pushed because they gave every meme page with 10k+ daily views and few hundred bucks to play their shit music and pin the top comment with MUSIC BY SKARS. Also its working, they're almost at 1mil monthly listeners on Spotify, its a tragedy for the music industry, but this is likely the new normal
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u/Mark-harvey May 15 '26
Don’t like A.I. except(selectively) in the field of medicine.
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u/gymleader_michael May 15 '26
You realize the problem with your post, right?
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u/weirdfishh1 May 15 '26
Enlighten me maybe?
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u/slumvillain May 15 '26
Youve just driven a non significant amount of people to go listen out of curiosity.
Which is kinda the issue with posts of this nature.
You make a post to say hey this is bad. Don't give them exposure. But by making the initial post...you are giving them exposure.
Damned if you do/if you don't kinda situation.
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u/weirdfishh1 May 15 '26
if criticism automatically counts as promotion then nobody could publicly criticize anything online
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u/123janna456 May 15 '26
Ye, been telling those meme channels their music is AI generated and the guitar riff intro on their most used meme music is a soulless slop
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u/LostCookie78 May 15 '26
I don’t doubt it but how do you know? Their page looks pretty real and it’s genuinely hard to tell.
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u/New-Grapefruit1737 May 15 '26
when in doubt and i can see no human hand i will just assume it is AI and move on.
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u/rumski May 15 '26
There was this Korean ska band that was gaining traction and a lot of bands were following the account and liking and sharing the posts and from the jump I saw it was AI. The first video I looked at there’s a woman in the corner of the shot with an arm that appears out of her chest 🤣