“It’s happening disproportionately with Black music. Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when she just came out? She can’t even collect the streams…
I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music.”
– SZA, on the rise of AI music to id Magazine.
I generally like hearing new music from the actual artists. If I see a new track from let’s say Kendrick Lamar on a popular video sharing site that starts with a y, I hit play because I am interested in buying it later. Then, you discover, even if it is good, it’s not real. So, the next time I see a new video from Kendrick, I am like is this new and I am less likely to consume it. It’s not fair to the artists. It’s putting a lot of nonsense in the world.