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highplainsdem

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2. Exactly. Their music, their lyrics, and also articles about them plus reviews of their music, because

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 03:10 PM

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those descriptions are necessary to connect words in AI users' prompts to the stolen music and lyrics the AI tool will use. The thieves who own and manage those AI music generators stole from every music journalist whose work they could locate. Countless journalists, as well as countless musicians.

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A Welsh Band Spent a Decade Building a Fanbase -- An AI Imitator Outpaced Them in Two Months [View all] highplainsdem Wednesday OP

"Inspired by artists" means 'stolen from artists' speak easy Wednesday #1

Exactly. Their music, their lyrics, and also articles about them plus reviews of their music, because highplainsdem Wednesday #2

There's one on You Tube as well roscoeroscoe Wednesday #3

There are a lot of AI creations on YouTube, unfortunately. It's flooded with AI slop. Fil Henley - Wings of Pegasus - highplainsdem Wednesday #4

Thank you for posting. I accessed recordings of the human group, and I like them. John1956PA Wednesday #5

AI musicians & actors will have a day in the sun, but people like real people & will pay for them over & above AI. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #6

I'm not so sure about that ... for a lot of people, AI crap will be good enough. Good taste is not a universal attribute eppur_se_muova Yesterday #7

It will fill in for a lot of muzak and background music. But few will pay to go to a concert given by AIs Bernardo de La Paz Yesterday #8

Does "merchandise" include recordings ?? Not everyone streams. Collectors are still buying vinyl, for crap's sake ! eppur_se_muova Yesterday #9

Streaming is about 85-90% of sales of music. Bernardo de La Paz Yesterday #10

Again, that's just surprising to me. But then, I've always favored the 'wrong' kind of music. nt eppur_se_muova Yesterday #11