can we talk about how ANNOYING is this to everyone that really likes music?

[u/vinicius_wz8]

I really hate those crappy AI covers of good songs, but using modified voices of real singers, like Christina Aguilera (on the screenshot) I bet yall hate it too. she could sing "its oh so quiet" very easily without AI.

it really annoys me that they will probably gain real money on some things like that, while the artist will never know they cloned her voice with AI

the AI didnt ever bother to write the name correctly on the cover, like what is "oh its so quiet", and that is what really kills the music industry

[u/Chingaso-Deluxe]

There’s no discussion to be had among thinking people, it’s a plague.

[u/Free_Strength902 → u/Chingaso-Deluxe]

It always stings a little more when it's a cover of someone like Björk, her whole deal is these incredibly specific vocal textures you just can't replicate. Feels like the audio equivalent of a photocopy of a photocopy

[u/avec_serif → u/Free_Strength902]

Just to add two more photocopy layers to the mix, did you know that Björk’s version is actually a cover of a 1951 recording by Betty Hutton, which is itself an adaptation of a 1948 original by German singer Horst Winter?

[u/dash-dot-dash-stop → u/avec_serif]

Too cool, thanks for the info!

[u/emalvick → u/avec_serif]

Which is what really makes Bjork's version cool. She made the song her own because who wants to hear Bjork cover someone without being Bjork.

[u/avec_serif → u/emalvick]

Did you listen to the Betty Hutton version? Because it sounds to me like Björk is doing her best Betty Hutton impersonation on this one

[u/emalvick → u/avec_serif]

I have heard it. I guess while she is not deviating that much on the chorus parts, I feel like Bjork is definitely putting her touch on it, and it's hard to deny the power voice she uses at various spots throughout the song.

[u/avec_serif → u/emalvick]

Without a doubt. Björk uses exactly the same backing instrumentation, and follows the same quiet / scream / quiet / scream vocal pattern, but Björk’s changes really do make for a better song. (I like them both but prefer Björk.) All I’m saying is that this is a rare example of Björk adhering surprisingly close to the source material, but the extra Björk-ness she still gives it is what makes it special

[u/nephylsmythe → u/avec_serif]

It’s a great illustration of bjork’s skill as an arranger. Her version sounds much better to me in spite of how little was changed.

[u/thebestguac → u/avec_serif]

Scrolled looking for this. Thank you for your service

[u/Murrdox → u/avec_serif]

I still remember in the glory days of the early internet finding Bjork's Gling-glo album of icelandic jazz song covers. It explained why "It's Oh So Quiet" is on Post quite a lot.

Back then, at least where I lived, you were lucky to be able to find a Sugarcubes CD in a record store. All we had was Debut and Post. Nobody knew she'd done this great little jazz album.

[u/AMoreRealWorld → u/Free_Strength902]

To borrow from Dana Gould, "It's like a drawing of a photograph of a hologram. It's the Beatles of wasting your time".

[u/BiggieBigs34 → u/Chingaso-Deluxe]

We need to talk about it so we can get it banned. This AI generation using actual people’s likeness, whether it be pictures, voices, or music need to be made illegal.

[u/tinythunder]

"Please give me credit if you use this."

Dude has the fucking audacity to put that in their videos.

[u/vinicius_wz8 → u/tinythunder]

I didn't even read that lol. i also noticed that he/she has put on the title: "made by adam sommer". like, what did he/she made?

[u/MonsieurReynard → u/vinicius_wz8]

.0005 cents per stream

[u/cheweychewchew]

I've never seen AI covers like this before. How the fuck is this guy not getting sued into oblivion?

[u/dreadnought_strength → u/cheweychewchew]

Two podcasts I listen to had ripoffs made with their image copied with a slight variant on the name.

They posted ~50 episodes, and had obviously run real podcast scripts through LLM text to speech.

Both the podcasts are on BIG networks, and were up for weeks before Spotify did anything. Whoever was behind the copies had 10-15 other slop podcasts up that I'm pretty sure were never taken down

[u/Djinn42 → u/dreadnought_strength]

listen to ripoffs made with their image copied with a slight variant on the name.

I was going to dis you for listening to this crap but after a couple more readings of your comment I decided you are missing a word.

[u/dreadnought_strength → u/Djinn42]

Fuck I absolutely did 😅

[u/Pale-Championship946 → u/cheweychewchew]

Creating a Youtube account is free and easy.

Creating an AI cover song, or 100 songs is free/cheap and easy.

Finding the real person behind the account, then having a lawyer draft and file a lawsuit is expensive and difficult.

[u/EmmEnnEff → u/Pale-Championship946]

Filing a DMCA takedown takes a few minutes.

[u/evanieCK → u/EmmEnnEff]

content ID systems don't recognize it because it's an AI amalgamation of the song and not the song itself, and cover songs generally fall under fair use. maybe AI covers shouldn't but it takes time to pass laws for stuff like that and this stuff has mostly emerged in the space of like 5 years.

[u/EmmEnnEff → u/evanieCK]

ContentID won't automatically flag it, but if you send a DMCA takedown, Google will take it down.

The uploader has to then make a legal filing if they want to contest the takedown. I strongly doubt any of these channels will, because none of them are interested in going to court.

[u/maynardftw → u/EmmEnnEff]

Yes because they aren't building a following with any given channel, they have no investment in any of it, it's all easily replaced.

[u/Big_Effective_9605 → u/evanieCK]

cover songs generally fall under fair use

compositions are generally covered pretty strictly and commercializing a cover is grounds to get you sued to my understanding

[u/MonsieurReynard → u/evanieCK]

Cover songs are not covered under “fair use.” They are, however, entitled to compulsory license. But the piper still has to be paid.

[u/OkBuddyEnglishMajor → u/evanieCK]

Covers are not covered under fair use.

[u/Nameless_One_99 → u/cheweychewchew]

Sadly I've seen YT channels with hundreds of AI videos of "covers" using AI voices of well known singers.
I'm not sure YT cares about moderating them.

[u/zoinkability → u/Nameless_One_99]

I'm not sure YT cares about much of anything other than its revenue numbers

[u/ChrisMartinez95 → u/cheweychewchew]

This video has 170 views. Litigation is expensive.

[u/timbreandsteel → u/cheweychewchew]

Suno, an AI music creation tool, is getting sued twice currently. Hopefully the result from the lawsuits will set some precedent.

[u/TheSkiGeek → u/cheweychewchew]

This is straight up infringement of publicity rights, you can’t use someone’s name and face to advertise your product whether or not it involves AI. On top of them (I’m sure) not having rights to the song either.

Now… if they did have rights to record and distribute a cover, I’m not sure they could be prohibited from making an AI knockoff voice that sounds stylistically like a well known singer. But you can’t plaster their name and face on it without their permission.

[u/DanceMaxRoboMusic → u/cheweychewchew]

I make covers, but not those covers.

I make lyric covers. I don't clone voices, or use the same melodies as the songs I'm covering. Just the lyrics. That makes copyright detection very difficult.

I've been doing it for years, because I think it's fun to turn my favourite metal lyrics into EDM songs.

I'm not monetized, never even attempted to make money cause that's beyond stupid, not why I do this (and the first step into getting sued).

[u/O2XXX → u/DanceMaxRoboMusic]

I think the monetization point is key. A kid singing a cover in the bedroom is vastly different than some of these AI content mills. Music in general kind of expect covers to a certain level, but you’re paying homage, not trying to cash a check.

[u/DanceMaxRoboMusic → u/O2XXX]

100% And cloning another voice for this is just... Icky.

[u/dasfoo → u/DanceMaxRoboMusic]

Covering songs is not an issue. Is the singing real even if the EDM instrumentation obviously isn't? I don't want a human's idea executed by a machine. I want a human executing a human's idea. That's where the excitement and energy of performance comes from.

[u/Bakkster → u/cheweychewchew]

It's YouTube so the labels can just use the platform process (if a video with under 200 views is even worth it) to either take the revenue or remove it.

[u/zoinkability → u/Bakkster]

In this case it goes beyond simple licensing, however. The rightsholders to the composition could monetize as that's pretty cut and dry but I'm not sure how Christina Aquilera could, as she has no copyright on the song. I'd imagine she'd have to sue in court, which is expensive, time consuming, and hard to do at scale if you have many people pulling this shit.

[u/zyygh]

All GenAI is plagiarism. People who consume this kind of "art" are complicit.

[u/Friggin_Grease → u/zyygh]

Dude I work with knows it's AI music and fucking loves it.

[u/puremotives → u/Friggin_Grease]

Coworker final boss

[u/nullfacade → u/Friggin_Grease]

Cypher enjoying a steak

[u/EloquentBaboon → u/nullfacade]

Me: Not like this. Not like this.

[u/bigbear1992 → u/nullfacade]

Ignorance is bliss.

[u/spademanden → u/Friggin_Grease]

Well he's fucking stupid

[u/Justice_Prince → u/Friggin_Grease]

I get people not paying enough attention to realize a song is AI generated, and to an extent I understand the desire create your own AI generated songs, but the idea of someone purposefully listening to music AI generated by someone else is just wild to me.

[u/cremvursti → u/Justice_Prince]

It's just people who want background sound, the kind who turn on the radio and just listen to whatever is on.

They don't care where it comes from or what the intentions behind those songs are, they only care about it "sounding good" to them.

These people are music consumers, not music enjoyers.

[u/Chihuahua1]

I dont even understand why Spotify is injecting this rubbish, I got a Jackson 5 AI Korean remix the other day.

[u/WhippyCleric → u/Chihuahua1]

To be included in your Spotify remixes/recommendations requires a fee. So to help you understand,they paid for the promotion.

[u/No_Resolution_9160 → u/Chihuahua1]

Brand new sentence dropped

[u/Nameless_One_99 → u/Chihuahua1]

Just curious because the kpop group Twice made a cover of I Want You Back that isn't AI, was it for another song?

[u/Independent_Cat4768 → u/Chihuahua1]

You got a Jackson 5 Korean remix and you’re complaining?? 😂

/s I hate AI too

[u/robsteezy → u/Independent_Cat4768]

I’m also laughing at this lol. Yeah I hate AI and agree with everybody else but damn I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t now curious in AI hilariously creating the most asinine pairings of music lol.

“Hey! You liked ‘Bobby Darin-Somewhere Beyond the Sea’

So here’s a Frank Sinatra cover of ‘shake that ass bitch’ done to the stylings of Wayland Jennings and Daft Punk!”

[u/zoinkability → u/Chihuahua1]

Spotify has been cozy with low effort music for years, even before AI songs. They do it because it makes them money.

The only solution is to go to a platform like Qobuz, which demonetizes AI songs and removes them from recommendations and other listings as soon as they are identified.

[u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime → u/Chihuahua1]

For over a decade the internet has been filled with people seeing something they like, like Star Wars, or Stardew Valley, and then doing their own fan art, often putting their own style and spin on it, and often times re-imagining things, like 'here's my fan art of keanu as Han Solo" or "Here's stardew valley done in lego"

There are a lot of people who do not see any difference between those types of unauthorized creations, and these AI creations. They just see it as a creative mashup of ideas, and don't really give a shit if it was done with AI or done legit. b

[u/keithstonee → u/Chihuahua1]

I canceled Spotify last year when they kept forcing random shuffle on me. I just use YouTube music now cause I already had YouTube premium.

pandora still has the best radio tho.

[u/photoggled → u/Chihuahua1]

Every fake song they inject is one less royalty they have to pay to a real artist.

[u/BemusedTriangle]

I’m so glad I never see this slop in my feed

[u/Arillious → u/BemusedTriangle]

I thought the same. But then I started hearing some songs I really liked and went to check the band, and found out they were in fact AI created or "human written" but ai performed. Spotify had it hidden down at the bottom. I've been hiding the artists as much as possible, but they keep popping up and it's getting harder and harder to tell and they don't let you block all ai content.

It really sucks because I don't have the time I used to and was relying on my discover weekly to find new music.

[u/maynardftw → u/Arillious]

And they're relying on you relying on discover weekly to be given AI music.

[u/mtys123 → u/BemusedTriangle]

Always think the same, all these people complainning "my feed is full of ai music" "my feed is all fruit ai generated novelas" etc. I hace never seen ANY of that, not a single one. If anything remoted related to ai generated slop appears, just put "not interested" and that will tailor the feed to that.

Its exactly the same as if I don t like x or y artist, just repeately tell the algorithm that you hate it and it will stop reccomending it

[u/galaxystarsmoon → u/mtys123]

The problem is that you're marking not interested on the topic itself, not AI. I see a ton of AI generated "looking for vendors" and also event flyers. I don't want to hide all of them because I run a business and need to see them.

[u/Brando43770 → u/BemusedTriangle]

I’ve tried removing AI music from my streaming platforms, and some of them say “this request is not available at this moment”. I hate it.

[u/Asusrty]

All I want is a toggle switch that removes AI from search results on Spotify and YouTube.

[u/doingtheunstuckk]

My dad sent me an AI Ariana Grande song a few weeks ago, claiming that AI can do it better than the artists. I was like no, AI stole her voice and generated some shitty lyrics. I sent him back an actual Ariana song, jfc.

[u/pizza-nibbler333 → u/doingtheunstuckk]

Ew. I got a bunch of those on my discover weekly playlist after Petal came out. I blocked every single one and it was like 1/3rd of the playlist.

Now I do a comb through of the artists before I listen to any playlists. I refuse to listen to that trash.

[u/vinicius_wz8 → u/[deleted]]

yeah, I think they mentioned it cause there are like more than 100 covers of its oh so quiet. and Björk's one is one of the most relevant ones of them all. but the Betty Hutton on is really good

[u/StinkyStangler]

Honestly I don’t know how y’all come across so much AI music (maybe it’s because I don’t use YouTube?), I don’t think I’ve ever had an AI artist make it into my Spotify

[u/eden_sc2 → u/StinkyStangler]

If you listen to instrumental playlists sadly you probably have encountered more than a bit of AI music, especially in the lofi/chill type stuff.

[u/StinkyStangler → u/eden_sc2]

I don't listen to lofi/chill playlists, even before AI a lot of them were extremely lazy loops, much prefer to listen to actual electronic artists like KUNZITE and whatnot for that realm

[u/silentcrs → u/StinkyStangler]

I’ve found a simple solution: don’t use Spotify.

I just buy the music I want to hear like the old days. It’s cheap, the artist gets paid more, I can play the music wherever I want (like offline), and no AI.

[u/maskaddict → u/silentcrs]

I use Spotify every day and I've never been forced to listen to anything AI-generated, because I don't let Spotify pick my music for me. I search the artists I want to listen to.

[u/DoctorOctagonapus → u/maskaddict]

I listen to artist radio quite a lot but have still never been served any slop. Maybe no one's bothered slopifying folk or prog metal yet!

[u/frankyb89 → u/maskaddict]

I mean I make my own playlists and adventure through related artists myself but I do still use Discovery and Release and I've only been fed an AI artist twice. And one of those two is more that they put Timbaland in my playlist and he was trying to hock some AI bullshit. Idk how people are getting so much AI put in their face.

[u/aalitheaa → u/silentcrs]

Absolutely.

I'd actually say that the best thing about coping with the AI apocalypse has been how easy it is to avoid AI music by just making a few changes in my listening/purchasing habits.

And after I made those changes, the quality of music I listen to is actually far better than even before the AI music existed. Spotify's Discover Weekly and other algorithmic playlists were already reducing the quality of the music I listened to.

Basically, I should have switched to Bandcamp/CDs years ago anyway, for many, many reasons. The shitty AI music was actually fantastic as a final push away from streaming.

[u/Sumeriandawn → u/silentcrs]

Yes, buy 5000 albums. Very simple.

[u/birdvsworm → u/StinkyStangler]

Every time I see someone say this their music taste is boilerplate and they listen to like 5 playlists. If you don't engage with the algorithm or keep to your own world of music, you won't see this stuff often.

If you used Discover Weekly between 2024-early 2026 there's a very strong chance you've listened to an AI artist without knowing it.

[u/StinkyStangler → u/birdvsworm]

I don’t use discover weekly because it has sucked since like 2022 lol

I just go out and find bands on my own, occasionally I check out the genre playlists but for the most part I’m doing my own prospecting. If I find a random band I like I also look them up to just learn more about them, have not once learned a band I like is an AI band

[u/Churtlenater → u/birdvsworm]

On the contrary, I think people that see AI garbage all the time don’t have the refined palate they think they do lol.

I’ve been using Spotify since like 2012 and I’ve never come across AI music.

[u/Emanemanem → u/birdvsworm]

I don’t use Spotify anymore, switched to Apple Music maybe 3 years ago. Discover weekly used to be amazing back then, I was exposed to so many new artists that way. Sad to hear it’s full of AI slop now, though I wonder if it depends on the music you listen to otherwise.

On Apple Music now about 80% of what I listen to is albums I specifically choose, the other 20% is Apple generated playlists that is mostly music I already know, the rest is related artists I may or may not have heard. But I don’t get any AI content. If I don’t know a song on one of the generated playlists I look up the artist to see who they are, never run across anything remotely AI sounding

[u/fauxromanou → u/Emanemanem]

I don’t use Spotify anymore, switched to Apple Music maybe 3 years ago. Discover weekly used to be amazing back then, I was exposed to so many new artists that way. Sad to hear it’s full of AI slop now, though I wonder if it depends on the music you listen to otherwise.

I listen to current release stuff, at least from the current year, almost exclusively and haven't noticed any AI stuff in my discover weekly & release radar. I don't use generated playlists in spotify otherwise.

That said, my usage is a huge outlier and the spotify wrapped yearly thing never knows how to categories me. I definitely know AI nonsense is a problem on the platform, too, regardless of my exposure rate.

[u/stev_mempers]

Lazy shits looking for a shortcut to clout

[u/klarno]

Also It’s Oh So Quiet is a jazz standard that dates back to 1948, it’s not original to Björk

[u/DrDerpberg → u/klarno]

Also It’s Oh So Quiet is a jazz standard that dates back to 1948, it’s not original to Björk

- Wayne Gretzky

-Michael Scott

[u/MonkeySherm]

how do you even come across something like this without searching for it?

[u/tisused → u/MonkeySherm]

Algorithm, I bet. Automated consumerism.

There was a golden age when we could use Spotify to effortlessly find new music we like and it has now seemingly ended. We might be going back to listening to full albums for a seamless music experience and making an active effort to find new stuff we like.

[u/MonkeySherm → u/tisused]

i've always been a guy that enjoys a whole album experience. its like watching a movie for me. of course i have playlists for different things, especially running, but when I sit down to listen to music it's almost always an album at a time.

I tried spotify for a minute maybe 10 years ago, but since I've had an iPod I always liked Apple Music better, so I'm still on that.

You're right about finding new music - I still actively search it out. I listen to a lot of college radio and I have friends with good taste too.

[u/Baddgoddexx]

It's honestly exhausting watching people profit off a voice they didn't spend decades actually training.

[u/pizzatimefriend]

ai music isn't music

[u/ButterscotchExactly]

Even if it wasn't AI I don't see how Christina Aguilera singing Bjork would work. Bjork has a very unique voice, and that nuance is a large part of her music. Christina is extremely talented but she just doesn't sing that way.

[u/arachnophilia → u/ButterscotchExactly]

it's also, ya know, already a cover

https://youtu.be/0Ojarj6nTM4

[u/FluffMob → u/ButterscotchExactly]

Agreed. An AI bro doesn't understand art or critical consumption enough to appreciate that, though.

[u/Burnt-Toast0212]

The audacity of him to put "made by Adam Sommer" as if he did more than just type a prompt. The sad thing is, you know hes proud of this bullshit too

[u/InfiniteHench]

We should be able to report music

[u/nilenc22]

Im a huge fan of her and im offended

[u/djdiphenhydramine]

AI is a fucking plague.

[u/ThePhunkyPharaoh]

I think AI fucking sucks, but this video has 170 views. This random YouTuber that is clearly stating this is AI is not the problem with AI, but you’re helping promote it right now.

[u/More_Hold_5522 → u/ThePhunkyPharaoh]

Which makes me suspicious.

[u/Cardone19 → u/ThePhunkyPharaoh]

Things in life aren't exclusive to one being right and one being wrong. There's a more nuanced discussion to be had here.

[u/Madzookeeper]

Despise it. Hate it. Detest it. And it all has the same weird sound quality. If you learn to recognize it you can tell instantly if it's ai or not.

[u/Qubeye]

TIDAL allows users to completely shut off all music which is flagged as AI.

Just saying, for people who hate it and still use Spotify, there are alternatives. Also TIDAL pays artists a larger percentage, allegedly.

[u/QueenRotidder]

oh HELL no

[u/mr_taco2]

They have a suno subreddit which is the most deluded dystopian place

[u/boatsyyy]

I cannot stand the integration of AI into music. Its disgusting how much i cant find real music when i search for something general

[u/meatballfreeak → u/boatsyyy]

What?!?

That’s total bullshit

[u/LionTigerWings]

So far i havn't come across any in my youtube music automatic playlists. Hopefully i never will.

[u/Dr_J_Hyde]

Support people like Anthony Vincent, Mac Glocky, Caleb Hyles, or Jonathan Young. Artists with some incredible talent to sing like other artists.

[u/jamiexx89]

I used to think it was a cool party trick the people using Ai were doing to play with musical styles. I still can see some of the humor in it, sadly. This was before I really realized just how fucked the process of using generative Ai really is.

[u/rodmandirect]

Turns out she did actually cover this song years ago: https://youtu.be/4_3GieYOIeQ?is=GqVsEWS7mY-KhHwr

[u/romerogj]

Tidal has an option to completely block Ai music.

[u/Entire_Business_7077]

So lame!!!

[u/DnA_Singularity]

If it sounds good then it is good. Don't care who or what made it.

[u/ZShock]

Yes, as a fellow music really-liker I agree

[u/BiggieBigs34]

AI using people’s likeness or voices, or music needs to be straight up banned.

It’s absolutely disgusting and it’s theft for the cases where her music is being used.

[u/theoceansknow]

Someone's never listened to METALLICA_KIDS_ARE_ALRIGHT.exe before

[u/hainesy91]

This is awful, but it is ironic that the AI song for Christina is about being quiet when her voice is anything but! (complimentary)

[u/Xanthus179]

Is this the reason why I hear all these shitty covers and dance remixes?

[u/Ember-Forge]

I should have an option to block AI non verified artists on streaming apps

[u/malendalayla]

This looks like Madonna and Christina Applegate blended, not Xtina. Wat da hale.

[u/fdrogers_sage]

So there are people who purposely listen? Or is there an algorithm that just randomly plays it for the user?

[u/soda_cookie]

This is the equivalent of a pre-internet kid making a collage, calling it art, and putting it on the fridge for all his people to see. Good work, Lil Jimmy. The fact that adults are doing this is just sad.

[u/RabbitsAhoy]

Eugh what the hell is this!? Jesus.

[u/darwin_green]

Thankfully A.I still sucks at doing vocals, but it does weather-channel music really well. Basically if it's no-vocal it can make it past me.

[u/TheWillRogers]

where do you guys even find this AI junk?

[u/strangelystrangled]

Scrolled too fast and thought Christina Aguilera was doing Traitors

[u/hardgeeklife]

It really sucks a genre mashup fan. Normally I would be very interested in like, a doo-wop version of Smooth Criminal, but the AI songs are so pervasive on youtube that I have to doubt everything by default.

[u/dukie33066]

Every song that I hear on any type of TV show I immediately track as AI now. Watched the new episode of Traitors ( I know, I know) and damn was it distracting.

[u/supersonic-bionic]

Oh god stop it

[u/KillaHazy]

I came across an AI generated Chris Stapleton voice singing a Dolly Parton tribute and it was on the front page of YouTube like it was legitimate.

[u/JunkHead1979]

Man, I remember way back in the Kazaa days, you'd see

"Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Pantera, System of a Down, A Perfect Circle - Choke.mp3"

Only that was better because it was a real song. Just mislabeled to hell and back.

[u/USA_A-OK]

I'm very happy I don't put myself in any position where I'd ever come across this, let alone hear it.

[u/fightswithC]

A friend forwarded me a version of Green Day's "She" done in the style of 60s pop. I wanted to hate it, I wanted to declare it to be an abomination. But it was glorious, and I listened to it many times. Not sure how to reconcile that.

[u/Efficient-username41]

I don't know. There's something about the way that I use the internet that makes it so I don't see this kind of thing. I would be annoyed by it if I saw it repeatedly I guess. But this is the first time I have ever seen it, so it doesn't reallt register on my emotional radar, know what I mean?

[u/joseplluissans]

STOP USING SPOTIFY. That's it. There are alternatives, who publicly state that no AI is to be found on their platforms.

[u/Rex_Suplex]

I'd rather not give this bullshit "art" anymore spotlight than it already has.

[u/peaceful_pancakes]

I don't care if you like AI music, this shit still annoying.

[u/_MUY]

Mark Henry Phillips (professional composer) was on NPR’s show Here and Now the other day talking about this. He thinks about half of all music circulating on Spotify and radio might have AI elements. Link

Everything from Taylor Swift for the past several years has sounded like the lyrics ran through AI. I never really liked her music, but it wasn’t obnoxiously soulless before 2022.

[u/tpro72]

Best to just ignore it and not listen

[u/Cold-Response-6917]

The music industry died with the advent of digital media.

This is just picking bones clean.

[u/rotundrikishi]

This should be actually illegal (It probably it?)

[u/mikeveeeeee]

It isn't even a Bjork song!

[u/DoctahFaust]

LOL the thumbnail looks like Christina Applegate not Aguilera.
jfc, this is such ass.

[u/flyingcomets]

I search on youtube the most recent results of a musician I like in case of any new interviews popping up or something I might miss but 99% of the time now I just get these awful AI covers or songs. It literally becomes the definition of slop having to wade through this shit 

[u/SectorAutomatic4125]

I think auto tune should be phased out, too.

[u/5QGL]

OTOH there is creative, clever prompting of AI, like this funk AC⚡DC cover, reviving the mashup spirit of the naughties.

https://youtu.be/KW30Y00I5wk

[u/addisonshinedown]

I genuinely haven’t even come across this stuff yet, but I guess my tastes are slightly more niche so I’m not being served the slop targeted toward people more in to pop than I

[u/Moonandserpent]

They aren't a factor in my life because I ignore them. Only really come across them as reels on Instagram from time to time.

[u/Vivid_Revolution_689]

im not sure how spotify works, but i had to completely clear my entire listening and watch history on youtube/YTmusic to stop getting ONLY ai bands recommended to me. i shouldnt have to google every new artist i find to see if they are real or not.

[u/Lost_Bug1239]

Just buy a CD and enjoy it.

[u/BenTramer]

Never heard this but bet I would be annoyed if I did. I listen to music every day. Discover new artists every week. How do people even come across this crap?

[u/keithstonee]

I've yet to hear an AI song that wasn't instantly recognizable as AI.

[u/squadmom1349]

Simply do not give it any attention. Instead use your attention tokens on real artists who are trying to bypass gatekeepers from their bedrooms. In an attention economy, use yours on things you want more of. This post platforms that which you claim to hate.

[u/m0deth]

This is the type of cover I'd at least give a run once to see if she did it justice.

But not this shit. I'd love to hear Christina actually do this tune, but I guess I'll just settle for saying that Adam Sommer can go fuck himself for this.

[u/JoseMinges]

I mean, Christina AI-guilera was right there.

[u/Maserati777]

I love the ai cover of Thong Song and some of the R&B covers of Eminem but I do not support ai covers of living singers.

[u/Iracus]

Why would I hate something I do not interact with? How do you even come across this?

[u/ChefCurryYumYum]

I have disliked every AI song my streaming service has offered and now it very rarely suggests any.

[u/CasanovaJones82]

I just wanted to jump in here and say that there's probably not a single piece of music ever written that she couldn't sing. One of the best voices I've ever heard. Not a fan of her music, but the talent cannot be denied. Woman has got some pipes.

[u/xKaelic]

Even the album art title is wrong, wtf

[u/NegKDRatio]

There is an instagram account called fakemusic_br or something and states in the bio that it uses Suno to do covers of original songs in different styles.

There are a surprising amount of artists that like the content. I wonder if they know or think someone is actually recording it

[u/Blarglord69]

I feel bad i like a few almost vinyl songs

[u/gilactic]

What the hell are we paying these music streaming services for if they aren't filtering out this garbage for us?

They can hire more people to moderate content.

[u/nrith]

Björk’s version was itself a pretty faithful cover.

[u/punkmonk13]

I’ve listened to it-not my cup of tea. It sounded a little silly, to be honest, and it doesn’t have the magic of Björk’s recording. The AI copies the pattern, but not the dynamics, the breath, the vocal explosions, the tension-all those human elements that made the song so extraordinary back in the day.

Bro has to be an Aguilera fan. I think AI Aguilera was sitting on the toilet when she recorded those vocals.

Once these goofballs/Fans get bored with the novelty of the technology, I think AI music could do extraordinary things.

[u/AnalogWalrus]

Annoying but the best thing you can do is not listen to it

[u/narcotic_sea]

The importance of proper parenting

[u/Falstaffe]

Too beneath my notice to annoy me. I just pass right over them.

[u/maadlog]

With the risk of getting downvoted into oblivion, i feel there is a place for those AI music what-ifs that is fun to hear.

This is not saying that music is dead, or that this "counts" as a original composition (ffs, proffiting from it or taking any kind of credit is out of the question). I see it more like a "meme" or funny type of thing. As long as the person is upfront about it being AI and doesnt turn a profit from it, I'm okay with it existing.

I've seen some album reimaginings that are pretty great

[u/GlitteringSalad6413]

What in tarnation?? 🫪

[u/eliroi]

Absolutely hate this. I've been trying to listen to a Japanese band called Soul'd Out and I keep getting results from a channel with the same name uploading AI "soul" covers of various songs. Anyone know how to block channels on YouTube??

[u/Angstromium]

TBH I never expected the "Metal Skeletons treading on human skulls in a burned out cityscape" to be the preferable vision of the AI apocalypse Judgement Day, but here we are.

https://giphy.com/gifs/IZY2SE2JmPgFG

[u/SF_Bud]

Fuck AI

[u/Dylanshupemusic]

Oh my fucking god  I’m going to cut my dick off and feed it to the wolves 

[u/qrrstec]

Gen AI is a PLAGUE

[u/panaceaXgrace]

I don't think everyone likes it, I think it's getting lots of engagement with bots.

I just ran into this phenomenon today. My daughter and I were trying to remember what song Lady Gaga sang with Tony Bennett and the first several hits in the search were AI generated songs that were meant to be her singing. My daughter saw it and said "I didn't know she covered My Way" and clicked not thinking. It sounded nothing like her, so we knew immediately it was garbage. It's definitely not the first. A few weeks ago autoplay sent me to this garbage after a Big Mama Thornton video that claimed to be "found audio". Took about fifteen seconds to recognize what they claimed was "remastered" was just AI crap. I can't help noticing all the engagement comments are bots too.

[u/Pessimistic_Gemini]

Dude, I'm one that likes music and I NEVER had a problem with these AI covers at all. If anything I've been continuously impressed with how much these YouTube Channels were able to adapt them into these various styles over the last couple years to where a lot of them were just better than the original works themselves.

I still have a download of this one AI cover that adapted Keane's Somewhere Only We Know into such an incredible ballad of a song that still ends up being my go to version of it to this day! Never heard the original song prior to it, but after I did, it just continues to show how much of an improvement it was compared to that original version as that was just too dang boring to try to listen to all the way.

[u/leaponover]

You are really good at advertising, Adam So...

[u/MonsieurReynard]

Kill it with fire

[u/robotco]

what you mean you don't like the All I Want For Christmas Is You cover by AI Adolf Hitler???

[u/marrom500]

Fuck AI

[u/Intrepid-Initial-279]

Djo

[u/Mageborn23]

I mean sure, but who cares. Will someone die? No so let's move on

[u/JoeyPsych]

"Ai bad" is something we normal people all agree on. But the companies using ai have not yet got the memo. To them this is the future. This is why there is an ai bubble, and its about to pop, who knows what will happen when it does?

[u/kululu987]

Its a real fucking shame on some of these, bc some of the instrumentals on these tracks sound really good, but I can tell its AI and im like "why didnt you just make this yourself?" I have a specific playlist on my YouTube titled "AI slop that is kind of good but not good enough to excuse the carbon footprint"

[u/britneys_bigtoe]

and this is why the only new music i've consumed in 2026 is either from established artists or was released prior to 2020. i'm not consuming any new music bc of AI. cut all my streaming service. i pirate the big artists and pay for the small ones. there's so much unheeard music in the world and people are willingly listening to AI. sometimes i hope they were wrong about when the sun will turn into a red dwarf

[u/Old-Sacks]

A lot of the non-bot audience are victims who do not know how predatory the algorithm is.

I have a relative that only uses YouTube for music. They recommend me crazy music shows that sound like Limewire filenames made manifest. "Nirvana with London Philharmonic orchestra live at the Royal Albert Hall", "Rolling Stones live with Ravi Shankar and 11 other sitar players at once", "Led Zeppelin feat Eddie Van Halen cover The Beatles".

They look at me with a look of physical pain when they ask me if it is AI (it always is slop). Never let people you care about listen to algorithms.

[u/F4ARadio]

As much as AI needs to sitdown in the musoc world, to make a statement like, "to everyone who really likes music", is quite arrogant. You can really like music, & still appreciate the "what if", of an AI cover. Now , if whoever made this is trying to make money off this, Christina, or any other artist who's voice is being used, needs to sue.

[u/AegisEpoch]

Meanwhile..

https://youtu.be/gewqOQzrNM0?is=VTIZz0Tuo6nqy-WO

[u/wiwarez]

For anyone interested, there's a community maintained AI slop blacklist for youtube that can filter out these channels, and allows to report new ones! -> https://aisloplist.com/