It was being OVERRUN with AI stuff, hopefully this cleans it up
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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lol I can imagine decades ago people cheering for songs that use sampling to no longer being allowed on a site. We really never learn sigh.
That really was a thing. There was a backlash towards sampling for like a decade and nowadays, no one seems to even notice or care. Same with synthesizer based music…so many people argued that it was not music and not real and that it was going to ruin music.
It genuinely astonishes me how regressive people turn about AI in art, its like I'm talking to Bill O Reilly complaining about modern art.
I was buying some LPs recently and saw one that caught my attention. I looked them up and almost all their content included some form of AI.
it's bullshit.
fuck AI.
Bandcamp consistently throws Ws
Surprising considers that it's parent company Epic (yes, of ~~Fortnite~~ Unreal Tournament and GoW fame) has a pro-AI stance.
but ai is company and company is people in america 🥴
YES! YES!! YES!!! I hate having to sift through that tripe when exploring certain genres.
I'm generally supportive of removing AI from artistic endeavors, but also wildly unfamiliar with bandcamp. I'm looking at it for the first time right now. Does it work like Deezer / Tidal or one of the streaming services where I can listen to things from my phone, or is it more of a website that you use to discover unsigned / smaller acts by clicking through a bunch of things and listening?
An important feature is that you can basically download (and thus, own) the music you pay for (in many formats too).
Bit of both. More on the indi/hobby side of things though.
Major labels have a presence on there too though.
Bandcamp W. One of the platforms I buy music from and surf other than soundcloud. You can find some banger albums by genre on there.
I hope all my fave autistic musicians are not mistaken for AI and deleted under a false-positive detection of being AI. At least my fave's album releases all pre-date AI music generators. Safe, for now.
I think safer would be to encourage all purely AI-generated be tagged as such, so it can be optionally toggled out of view, and then there's less incentive for the unscrupulous to simply hide that it's AI generated. Banning increases the "hide that it's AI" vibes, not the "don't do AI" vibes. Prohibition does not prevent. Prohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse.
Prohibition of AI does indeed prevent Bandcamp's servers from being overwhelmed by the storage needs of slop "artists" and the gruel they call their "music".
I've been re-reading LOTR lately and I like to put on Middle-Earth ambience in the background. Do you have any idea how much LOTR themed ambient slop is on YouTube? There are channels with over 100 videos, each exactly a 3-hour slopfest of sounds with HD/4k resolution slop art playing on screen.
Considering the vast majority of real artists might put out 5 hours of music in their entire careers, why the hell would bandcamp want to host hundreds of hours of fake music from a single source and pay for all that storage?
AI is a plague upon humanity. Bandcamp is on the right side of history and I'm happy to have my music on their platform.
I doubt they would just blanket scan all music and ban that which they think is AI (aside from how that's practically impossible). That's the kind of thing a lazy big tech company would do. I wouldn't be surprised if this will just end up being on a report basis, at the very least with human verification once steps like banning would be taken. Because otherwise it would be pretty disastrous for the reasons you mentioned, since it would ban legitimate artists. Not to mention the bar of "substantially AI" would need to be judged by someone.
Great decision Bandcamp, I use Bandcamp to support musicians
Paying monthly subscriptions for music that for most people is essentially the same mix with some deviations will become very costly for listeners over time. Relying on paid streaming services is the ultimate expression of laziness.
How would you even screen for AI music?
With AI, duh
I'm glad they did this. Confident in my choice to remain with Bandcamp.
Keep it up bandcamp. We are all waiting for when you enshittify like everyone else but you've held it at bay so far.
They gave us a scare over the years, being sold around to companies that are famous for enshittifying platforms.
Epic sold the company when people unionized, and the next did a trick to not recognized the union and "hire" half of the staff (contrary to fire half of them).
The platform is not what has been 5 years ago, but it is still my favourite place to get music around.
Neat, my current setup is :
- stream from FIP.fr via cvlc
- when I absolutely love a tune, buy on Bandcamp
- if it's not available or I bought it elsewhere, e.g. old CD, then get from Soulseek
- scp my ~/Music directory on my mobile phone
I tried LMS for few weeks but honestly just plain VLC is enough for me.
Anyway, point is, this decision makes me want to buy from Bandcamp even more.
First I've heard of FIP, I'll have to give it a go
Are Bandcamp still the good guys? I thought they were bought by the big capital and now went down the drain. Artists' opinions especially welcome
People expected them to get fucked after the acquisition, though the new owners are just going "you keep doing what you're doing, not gonna change a thing, just give us a cut of your profits"
Touch wood, it's gonna stay that way.
I don't bought a lot of music, but all the independent musicians I follow have a bandcamp store. They also sell merch there.
on average, i'm earning 3x as much from bandcamp FLAC sales compared to what i earn off streaming. Hasn't been ruined so far.
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Just watch, we’re two weeks away from some tech bro trying to start a Clankercamp website. The best part is that no one except other tech bros will care.
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good decision, also good decision to not ban all music with ai in it. like, we got so many pedals nowadays. live pitch correction? like wtf. how is that not ai. as long as there is some human pouring their blood, sweat, tears and soul into the music, that is what i want to hear.
As they should.
On the other hand, if AI music was any good why would I go to bandcamp for it?
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