Fuck AI

brother pop music has been bullshit for decades.

Country music has been slop long before AI.

When a computer can just toss all your shit in a blender and spit it back out, and it satisfies fans of your genre to this extent, then frankly this is a badly needed wake up call to country music.

People who listen to country music aren't exactly discerning.

It's country music, not Mozart, they are all pretty much the same anyway. It's formulaic and works with a group of people who don't want innovation or change.

My sister uses AI to gen music all the time and what annoys me most is how actually good it is at making country music.

But I mean... It's probably more just because that's a very low bar to pass in modern times because even human-made country music hasn't been good since the 90s. 🤷‍♂️

It also isn't too surprising since a lot of music, especially from certain classical musicians, was written algorithmically, too.

This just goes to show how bad country has become.

I, too, came to these comments to shit on country music.

While I hate AI generated music, art, etc. I consider it funny to see that they are aiming at the lowest hanging fruit where human slop meets AI slop.

What’s original about most popular songs. They’re usually lyrically simple with a catchy beat and chorus. Something AI would easily be good at and it could churn out mediocre music easily, and a catchy popular tune wouldn’t be too difficult with interation. Country is no exception.

First we start by using language correctly. It's not a song. It's a stream of audio data which has been algorithmically extruded out of a massive training dataset (which is most likely comprised of stolen content). We then only perceive it to be a song because the audio data as interpreted by our brain is similar to actual songs we've heard.

Billboard, just like every other organization which offers a content platform, should ban generated synthetic data files. They are taking the place of actual art created by actual artists and it's utterly ridiculous.

According to another article , the only requirement to reaching that position is selling 3,000 copies. It was basically a PR stunt and it worked, since headlines are gobbling it up and spreading the "artist"'s name all over the place.

AI slop is preferred by the common idiot, and country music is enjoyed primarily by the average white idiot. So really these just kind of line up in an unsurprising way.

Country music songs, since 2001, have pretty much been as formulaic as any llm could derive. I’m saddened but certainly not surprised.

Most people are fucking idiots. Thats why ai and corps will prevail.

Odd that it's on top of a sales chart when AI music can't be copyrighted, so anyone could just get it for free. It makes me suspect it's presence there might be inauthentic.

So is it beers, trucks, babes, and America, or "I killed that good for nothing sonofabitch husband and I'd do it again"

TRUCK JEANS BEER GIRL CREEK BOOTS TRUCK

AI's gonna ruin country music. Watch, their trucks are gonna run away, they'll catch their dog cheating and their wives are all broke down.

Well, it was definitely going to be within modern country where it became successful and accepted.

Country today, actual music next week.
Everything goes to shit. At least the climate is going UP UP UP

Tbh I predicted that a computer would be able to make a hit country song over a decade ago. It's extremely formulaic and the lack of creativity in popular country is almost a point of pride for fans. I'm just kind of surprised it took this long if I'm being honest.

I'm ok with AI country because it's a trash trite genre anyway.

The song in question?

NSFW

(No, not really)

That's ... kinda pathetic for the industry, though not surprising for a genre that lost it's heart ages ago.

Someone pointed out to me a while back the main draw of human made art is the effort put in and the genuine connection people make with the artist. When you actually engage with the art, it's provocative and emotional and has that connection. Slop can't do that. It's like empty calories for the soul.

But that argument falls apart for commercial endeavors

plenty of human made slop also exists and while it may look pretty (or in this case, sound pretty), the artistry is lacking. It's made to top charts, not build a connection. You lack the artist's emotions, creativity, the imperfections that make it genuine, even the backstory behind the piece, etc. All that is art.

County (and other commercial pop) has lacked that for ages. There are genuine artists out there, but marketing and promotional strategies tend to drown them out with slop. No surprise that side is getting the AI overhaul.

When all your art does is make people feel but without meaning, don't be surprised when the machines get better at pressing the happy button.

It's been algorithm slop since the late 90's, exactly like boy bands. What's the surprise?

In the end the outcome will always matter.

Look at corporations. They thrive, harm and exploit and all know it and the masses still use their products and services because they are often too good or too monopolistic to not.

The same will be true for AI content. If it's by the masses perceived as good content it will be successful.

And to be fair.... Many human creations that get large traction and fanbases these days are not great quality. The bar to surpass really, really low in many cases.

We humans are simply dumb on average.

I've been collecting music for a while on my hard drive and AI-generated stuff has been one of my worries. I tend to download a lot of vaporwave from Bandcamp (sometimes full labels at a time) and some of those artists have used AI. I'm sure some unmarked AI slop has sneaked into my collection this way and I don't know which albums/tracks.

Not only is it ai, its country. Honesty, coming from a heavy country family and town... I don't get the appeal one bit.

I say while sipping tea and listening to King Stephen.