AI Music Is Causing HAVOC For Streaming Artists

AI Music has been a hot topic for a while, but it's about to get crazier now that we have fake AI Music being uploaded to real artists' streaming channels. The big questions are how is it so easy to do, and what's going to be done to stop it?

00:00 Intro / Story Background
00:53 He Made Millions From Fake Songs
03:08 Fake Songs Uploaded On Real Channels
05:42 It's Too Easy To Do
08:59 This Needs To Be Stopped / Outro

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[heroizumi]

That's absolutely insane that they don't have some sort of 2 factor authentication requirements for uploading to official pages. Hopefully this outbreak of fake songs will make something change to avoid this from continuing.

[OmgWtfTsuji]

What if short beard Tank is AI and the real tank is being held captive somewhere?

[cmkeelDIM]

You could have a war on Spotify with this. Imagine flooding Swift with AI Deathcore, or Meshuggah with AI Country. It is really sounding like the Dead Internet hypothesis is a real thing.

[BrianLarney]

Streaming services have been corrupt for a very long time, especially Spotify. It has been rife with Bots, Stream Farms and fake, so-called "noise" tracks pratically since its inception. This AI stuff is just another example how they've failed to control thir platform.

[Anuta]

We are forced to use 2 factor ID and stupid secure passwords for even the most unimportant accounts, and online music platforms rely on HONESTY?!?

[xSaVageAU]

I'm glad I found you speaking up about this. One chill-step artist I love called Blackmill has been having this problem for a good while now.. literally every week a new album gets put on his youtube "Releases" but wont show up in his actual uploads. This has been going on with his channel for at least 4-5 months now. it's ridiculous.

[IsMirDochLattens]

Spotify also has a big problem with people claiming to have collabs with famous bands or artists to push their songs. There are times I get like 2-4 songs like this in my 'Release Radar' playlist. So annoying. It shouldn't be difficult to insert an authorization mechanism right?

[Vanaxul]

The world was a better place when everyone thought SOAD wrote a Legend of Zelda song.

[robcnp]

That was hilarious when you called that person during the stream. “I think he’s low-key pissed”. Lol.

[blindchannelfinland]

Really important topic thanks for making this!

[Robert_Herring]

Great video. I follow several jazz and jazz fusion artists that have had songs show up on their profile, and not necessarily AI generated. There really does need to be some safeguards in place.

[antediluvianjohn]

Another issue is getting your real artist tracks put on bot playlists that get your tracks removed from streaming altogether completely out of your control.

I had this happen to one of my tracks and as a small artist it is such a punch in the gut when you think your track is popping off and the next day you check Spotify artists and all the plays are fake.

[dnocturn]

Wow, I am actually blown away, that there isn't a safeguard system in place, when you upload a new song for an artist already. Why is this even possible and so easy to do in the first place? I did not expect something like this.
So I can actually upload my sh*tty AI generated sailor shanties, with the voice of Tank the Tech, to Taylor Swift just like that? Holy ...

[Blutaar]

I don't think that is an AI problem. That is a Problem in general. AI just makes it way easier. From what you described no one is stopping me to upload anything to real artists channels. It does not have to be AI generated.
The same problem has YouTube (and others) with all those copyright scams. It is way, WAY too easy to abuse the system.

[onewaydown]

When I recently distributed my old band's album, it seemed pretty easy to say you had an existing artist page. We didn't, but there were steps needed to link things to my YT/Google account and easy steps to claim the Spotify pages and whatnot. It's surprising that there's no checks or authentication/approvals to publish to an existing artist page. Spotify and these outlets need to take accountability and ensure that this can't happen.

Same with AI music. I think AI music tools are a good resource for creative people that perhaps can't play instruments but have visions they'd want to see realized. Or, in my case, use AI generations as inspirations to get ideas from. But Spotify and such need to take action and make sure AI music is *clearly* highlighted and segregated from real musicians. AI music is still an artistic expression - made by a person with a creative vision in mind - but not art that's physically created by someone. We can't diminish or otherwise reduce real artists and bands visibility in the music space. There needs to be a clear line so musicians or artists in both camps can thrive.

[kristindunbar]

I noticed that on Tidal when there were 2 new full length albums by Grayscale released on the same day. I looked at the credits & it looks like the "composer" released multiple albums by multiple artists, most by existing bands. There were hundreds of songs all released on the same day. There needs to be an easy way to report these people.

[MrLJT]

Also happened to Dark Tranquillity. I was listening to their album Endtime Signals yesterday and there were AI songs mixed in.

[larswillsen]

Yesterday, Spotify decided that one of my tracks - which was recently played on Californian radio and gained a whopping 1, 400+ streams - was "suspicious" and reset the count to zero. I'm a 62-year-old musician, re-recording my 30+ year-old tracks after a massive stroke (brain damage), with no social media presence other than YouTube. Why are they doing this? What’s in it for them to crush a small artist with a large catalog just because I happened to write 800+ songs in my prime? Now, I find myself mocked by Spotify, while others pulling in a million streams per day never seem to face any complaints. @spotify

[pascTV]

Thanx for the insight on this. I was wondering how these random uploads happen to bands‘ accounts. And it’s absolutely mindblowing that bands don’t have control over what can be uploaded to their accounts. 🤯

[colorfulsomething]

I'm an artist but not in music. Drawing and digital painting. This topic has been going on for while already and a lot of artists are protesting against AI. Because oh boy... People posting AI art while claiming it would be handdrawn stuff, making tons of money. Stealing peoples artist identities, making money in their name. Or just training an AI to replicate someones entire style, which they're developed over years of practice. Their skill, craftsmanship, suddenly without value from one day to the next. Most of it isn't even illegal. A lot of sites and social medias themselves now have policies that they're allowed to use any uploaded pictures from users to train their own AI. It's a huge mess.