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Bluetus

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2. I wish them well. It is fraught.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 05:28 PM

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Where do you draw the line? AI tech has been used at all levels of the music production industry for a long time. It is a fairly recent development that an entire song that approaches commercial quality can be produced entirely from ai. Certainly it would be nice to ban all of that.

But I just don't see how you can draw the line effectively. For example, a few weeks ago, just for fun, I generated a song entirely from AI. It was not half bad. And I am planning to rearrange that music for a live band to perform in a show later this spring. I will introduce it and tell the backstory about how it originated in AI. I think it's important for the audience to understand what is and what is not possible.

Would Bandcamp ban that particular selection? I don't think they should. It certainly involves a great deal of human artistry. But how do you draw the line between enough human input and too much AI?

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Bandcamp has banned all music made with AI [View all] highplainsdem Jan 14 OP

Good for them!!!!! SheltieLover Jan 14 #1

I wish them well. It is fraught. Bluetus Jan 14 #2

Because those tools are trained illegally on stolen intellectual property, any use of them is unethical highplainsdem Jan 14 #3

And btw, what you wrote about AI being used at all levels of the music industry "for a long time" is wrong and highplainsdem Jan 14 #4

By "long time" I mean 5+ years Bluetus Jan 14 #10

I don't believe that AI music taking over is inevitable - that's propaganda from the AI companies. And highplainsdem Jan 15 #11

Just to be clear, my use of the AI material Bluetus Jan 15 #15

You're still likely to end up encouraging some of those people to use AI. highplainsdem Jan 15 #16

No competent lawyer files a brief written by AI Bluetus Jan 15 #17

No ethical person should be using generative AI, period, for anything, unless forced to do so by a highplainsdem Jan 17 #21

What highplainsdem said jfz9580m Jan 14 #7

Now, if only Spotify and the other streaming platforms... LudwigPastorius Jan 14 #5

Very cool. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jan 14 #6

I absolutely can't stand ai so called music. tazcat Jan 14 #8

I am a happy CAMPER and have been for years. Tikki Jan 14 #9

Jan 22, 2026 Edits jfz9580m Jan 15 #12

Why aren't they all doing this? FakeNoose Jan 15 #13

Spotify makes more money from AI-generated music. It can't be copyrighted, so they don't have to highplainsdem Jan 15 #14

Well I get that FakeNoose Jan 15 #18

Of course it can be copyrighted. Bluetus Jan 17 #19

No. That's not true, and they don't claim copyright. See this: highplainsdem Jan 17 #20

I don't think you understand copyrights. Bluetus Jan 17 #22

You're still 100% wrong, because you ignored this paragraph: highplainsdem Jan 17 #23

What you are citing is only an opinion by the copyright office and that is not binding on anything. Bluetus Jan 17 #24

You can claim a partial copyright if you did any of the work and can prove it. I doubt applying a little highplainsdem Jan 17 #25