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Per community feedback, low-effort GenAI posts are disallowed.

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I noticed that AI posts tend to get reported so I figured maybe we just make them officially disallowed.

Agree/disagree? Post and tell us why!

Edit 2026-04-02: Finally updated the sidebar to clarify that "low-effort GenAI posts are disallowed". Thanks all for your input!

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[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago

Music has been one of the most powerful tools for human expression since the dawn of time. Ban.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 64 points 9 months ago

Generated stuff is a waste of bandwidth and storage space. Ban ban ban

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Agree. Clanker punks fuck off.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 9 months ago

I won't listen to AI generated music. It doesn't belong anywhere, in my not so humble opinion.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ban ai bullshit

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Allow AI posts if they are one of the following :

  • something interesting that can't be achieved through traditional means
  • something that is created in direct lineage of the programmer's work (eg : someone builds a specific AI based system to actually make music in a novel way, like, idk, taking in barcodes and generating music based on the data in the barcode)
  • something that is made through a custom workflow that took effort on the technician's part.
  • Anything that is procedurally generated as part of a semi-determenistic system (eg : sheep in minecraft pressing buttons by accident , sound of twitter)

Technically, you might need to ban the song "skullgrid" since it was composed using procedural generation software. But, it was composed that way, but then recorded by metal musicians. https://beholdthearctopus.bandcamp.com/track/skullgrid

Obviously, yes, ban slop AI stuff that's "here's enter sandman regge style" , here's my "smoky blues space album" that's just them putting the title into suno AI.

There are also people that worked on this kind of stuff before the AI ... mainstreamisation? Like Dadabots , who worked with the musicians and with their permission and everything. I don't want that kind of stuff to be banned. https://dadabots.bandcamp.com/album/coditany-of-timeness is from 2017 and it would be a shame to lump it in with everything else.

https://github.com/MeltwaterArchive/Sound-of-Twitter ... which is currently down, or deleted or fucking whatever.

Basically : I want to see experimental works that were made using programming and data re-interpretation. I don't want to see "I put farts through AI and here's the generic output".

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Technically, you might need to ban the song “skullgrid” since it was composed using procedural generation software

Was the procedural generation software trained using other artists' works? Or is it more like a drum machine with baked-in algorithms written by software developers? If the latter, that's not "AI" in the sense that this thread is primarily discussing.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or is it more like a drum machine with baked-in algorithms written by software developers?

even better, using a scripting language that calls algorithms.

EDIT : Fair point though

[–] nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

colloquially we all know 'ai' means generative large language models like gpt and copilot. nobody says 'ai' these days - especially in the context of question of the post here - and means sythesizers or minecraft or purpose-built and tailored narrowly scoped machine learning models integrated in software. we would say these other terms we've used here just like we have.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 29 points 9 months ago

AI “training” is theft from human artists. Ban AI-gen completely.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 25 points 9 months ago

Agreed. I'll go one further and say disallow "AI" anything...

Soon the internet will be so full of sloppy shit that we need to start creating spaces dedicated to genuine human arts and communication right now.

[–] gid@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 months ago

Yeah, disallow it. It's stolen pap that only makes the unethical corporations richer.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 9 months ago

If it's not disallowed outright at least require it to be clearly labeled

[–] KingDingbat@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Ban it by calling it what it is: spam. We don't even need to debate whether it's "real" music or not. The bots and accounts posting it here are spamming the community for views/plays solely so they make money off their fake content. Every time I've seen it it's dozens upon dozens of posts by the same account flooding the community and contributing nothing worthwhile. Almost always they are even trying to pass it off as genuine musicians.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes ban AI music completely. For a comprise I'd be ok with a regular ai music thread if there was any demand but i dont think there is.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That also seems like a nice way of dealing with it

[–] marighost@piefed.social 17 points 9 months ago

I dunno guys, maybe we should allow it!

/s

Music is pure human expression. I'd rather listen to the worst human-made music there is than the best AI-generated music.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

can we keep the Weird Al stuff though

ha im so funny

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

weird AL yankovic 🤣

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 6 months ago

The problem comes from AI looking the same as Al because of the font.

[–] xektop@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago

Ban it .. there is a place and time for machine learning, but it's not art in any shape or form!

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago

Ban everything AI

I don't want to talk about clanker work, there's plenty of good work humans are doing

[–] nostrauxendar@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Agree, ban the spam

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago
[–] shininghero@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago

While there is one singular ai song that I actually like due to it mocking abusive customers, I consider it the exception and not the rule.

I vote for banning AI-generated songs.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

AI music is a technical exercise, not art. Ban it

[–] bootstrap@piefed.social 8 points 9 months ago

Fuck that shit off permanently please

[–] vogi@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

Disallow it.

It might be interesting to hear what average music sounds like, but only once.

[–] bluemoon@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago
[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Shun the Abominable Intelligence.

Until AI music is made that doesn't steal from the collective artistic output of every member of this group, it's a slap in the face that it would be allowed here.

[–] Affidavit@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I see more posts about AI than posts generated by AI. TBH, these are the posts I would rather get rid of. As is, I just block the users that spam this crap (sorry OP) just so I can see a post on Lemmy that isn't about fucking AI.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 6 months ago

I've seen two takes on AI

  • they hate it

  • they find it tolerable at best

Even the trash bots who promote it always take a moderate unoffensive stance so they can't shill it too hard.

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