Three songs generated by artificial intelligence topped music charts this week, reaching the highest spots on Spotify and Billboard charts.

Walk My Walk and Livin’ on Borrowed Time by the outfit Breaking Rust topped Spotify’s “Viral 50” songs in the US, which documents the “most viral tracks right now” on a daily basis, according to the streaming service. A Dutch song, We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Center, an anti-migrant anthem by JW “Broken Veteran” that protests against the creation of new asylum centers, took the top position in Spotify’s global version of the viral chart around the same time. Breaking Rust also appeared in the top five on the global chart.

These three songs are part of a flood of AI-generated music that has come to saturate streaming platforms. A study published on Wednesday by the streaming app Deezer estimates that 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day – 34% of all the music submitted.

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[–] 104 points 11 months ago (25 children)
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    [–] 59 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    You can't convince me that's not manufactured

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    [–] 38 points 11 months ago

    “Synthetic music”, no you mean AI slop but want to keep inflating the bubble the Guardian

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    I like to not get music advice from charts. I don’t think I’ve heard AI music. I’m going to not look for it.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    Spotify won't tell you that it is even if you do happen to stumble upon it.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    Serious question: Let's say you hear a song on Spotify, and you like it, add it to your favorites, etc., then later find out it was AI. Do you stop enjoying it? If so, why?

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    I would. I have a difficult time separating art from the artist and couldn't currently bring myself to willingly listen to AI music. Mostly because it's a soulless conglomeration of what "good music is supposed to sound like" rather than art created by an actual human who has something to say. But to be fair, I feel the same about any pop or country hit that is churned out for the sole aim of getting a hit.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Note that I submitted a San Francisco Chronicle article about this yesterday. One thing that came up during the discussion is that while there may be a lot of people streaming the song on Spotify, at least according to one source, the Billboard chart that was topped was a small-volume one, so it may not be as significant as it sounds.

    https://lemmy.today/post/41573347

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago

    Volume aside, I find Billboard charts equivalent to JD Power awards as they've always been rigged via payola schemes and the fact that nearly the entire nation's radio stations are owned by a single company iHeartRadio/Clear Channel. The music industry is picking winners and losers not the listening public.

    This may be different with streaming but that platform makes it really easy to rig the system with bots.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    Yes, masses like simple shit. Fast food, superhero movies and simple tunes with easy to understand lyrics.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    If AI generated slop raises to the top of the charts, it tells a lot about the perceived quality of the human-made slop there.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    I don't use spotify but I wonder how many plays were because the next song algorithm "decided" that these songs will now be heard by everyone.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Can someone make some AI music to counter the alt right AI music?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I'm sure you could, if you want.

    https://suno.com/

    https://udio.com/

    They're either using one of those or a similar service.

    I don't think that it's gonna be all that rewarding, though.

    I mean, do you really want to be trying to get in a yelling match with someone else over politics, each trying to drown the other out?

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I wonder how many of the listeners were bots.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Turns out a lot of people like how it sounds.

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