ROKK, a streaming platform centered on rock and metallic music, introduced on Monday (July 7) that it’s going to not enable “totally AI-generated music” on its service.
The transfer comes amid the rise of “pretend AI bands” which have generated thousands and thousands of streams on music streaming platforms.
The motive force for ROKK’s new coverage seems to be The Velvet Sunset, a wholly AI-generated band that has, to date reached over 1.1 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify.
Customers of ROKK now can flag music they believe is AI-generated. When a monitor is reported, ROKK employees will manually look at it and decide whether or not it needs to be faraway from the platform.
Final month, Spotify rival Deezer launched what it claimed to be the world’s first AI tagging system for music streaming.
The Velvet Sunset has numerous AI-generated band ‘pictures’ with a ‘THIS IS…’ playlist on Spotify. ROKK has posted a display screen seize of the band’s Spotify web page with a giant X mark, accompanying its announcement of banning AI bands from its platform.
“When pretend AI bands can flood playlists and idiot a whole lot of hundreds of listeners, it’s clear one thing’s damaged.”
ROKK
ROKK stated: “When pretend AI bands can flood playlists and idiot a whole lot of hundreds of listeners, it’s clear one thing’s damaged.”
“At ROKK, we’re drawing the road. No bots. No copycats. Simply actual music by actual artists.”
As beforehand reported by MBW, AI-generated music launched by pretend artists is quickly rising in recognition on music streaming providers. Apart from The Velvet Sunset, MBW has tracked down different seemingly AI artists like outlaw nation artist Aventhis, additionally verified on Spotify with over 990,000 listeners. The artist’s month-to-month listeners fell from 1.072 million when MBW reported about it final week.
One other AI band, The Satan Inside, has racked up over 526,000 month-to-month listeners. They also have a vary of merch obtainable on-line.
ROKK co-founder Alexander Landenburg, who can also be a drummer for bands Kamelot and Cyhra, stated: “It’s one factor if somebody makes use of expertise as a part of their artistic course of. In any case, that’s no totally different from musicians utilizing MIDI packs, amp simulators, or enhancing instruments. What issues is that there’s nonetheless a significant and significant human contribution on the core.
“We draw the road when AI is used to create total ‘artists’ or ‘bands’ which can be fully synthetic but handed off as human, as in “The Velvet Sunset”.
Alexander Landenburg, ROKK
“However we draw the road when AI is used to create total ‘artists’ or ‘bands’ which can be fully synthetic but handed off as human, as in “The Velvet Sunset”. That’s not simply soulless, it’s deception. It undermines all the things we stand for,” Landenburg was quoted by heavy metallic music information web site MetalSucks as saying.
The co-founder expressed frustration with how AI-generated content material diminishes the worth of human artistry, noting that almost all musicians spend a long time “ studying, training, failing, sacrificing, and beginning over simply to succeed in the purpose the place we will create one thing that may be significant.”
“To see that decreased to one thing generated in seconds from a textual content immediate isn’t simply disappointing — it’s a slap within the face to each artist who’s put their coronary heart and soul into their craft.
“This should be stopped. That’s why our objective is evident: No Absolutely AI-Generated Music on ROKK. Please be part of us in retaining music actual.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
