I shouldn't have to do this but just to prefix and for the sake of transparency...

I DIDNT WRITE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE. IM POSTING IT FROM MUSICTECH. I DONT BELIEVE AI TURNS MEN INTO WOMEN.

HERES THE ORIGINAL LINK: https://musictech.com/news/industry/traxsource-statement-on-ai/



Electronic music-focused platform Traxsource has outlined its “nuanced” stance on AI use in a lengthy new statement on its social media channels.

In a somewhat more balanced position than other platforms – some of which have taken an overtly anti-AI stance – Traxsource acknowledges the legitimate use of AI “as a production tool” to “assist within a larger human-driven creative process”, but maintains that entirely AI-generated music “does not belong on Traxsource”.

Within the post, Traxsource downplays the infallibility of AI-detection tools often touted by other platforms and streaming services, saying 100% accurate detection is “not yet possible”.

“Detection tools are improving, but still face significant limitations and remain extremely cost-prohibitive at scale,” the platform says.

“Add in today’s hybrid workflow, which often blends human creativity with AI tools, and accurate detection is nearly impossible. Even the researchers building these systems acknowledge there is no 100% solution.

“Any platform claiming foolproof AI detection is overstating what the technology can currently deliver. We choose transparency over false promises, both to avoid enforcement we cannot accurately execute and to protect human artists from being falsely accused.”

One such platform leading the charge against wholly AI-generated music is Deezer, which last year unveiled an AI content tagging system that filters such content out of royalty payments and blocks it from showing up in editorial playlists. The French streaming service recently announced plans to license the technology out to other companies.

Traxsource touches on the “polarised” conversation surrounding AI use in music, mentioning how some believe AI is a “threat to human artistry”, while others view AI as the “next evolution in a long line of tools” to “push creative boundaries”.

“We believe the issue is far more nuanced and requires an equally nuanced position,” the platform says.

“It’s a fact that house music was born out of technological innovation, and our community has always embraced advancements. But we also must recognise the difference between a production tool in the hands of a skilled human creator and a fully AI-generated song produced from a prompt. This distinction is at the heart of our position.

Traxsource’s stance on AI use on its platform consists of five key pillars:

• We champion human artistry – “Traxsource is and will remain a home for music made by artists who pour their talent, experience, emotion and identity into their work.”
• We are against fully AI-generated music – “Music created entirely through AI prompting where no meaningful human creative contribution exists does not belong on Traxsource.”
• We acknowledge AI as a legitimate production tool – “If an artist or producer uses AI to assist… but the musical vision, composition and artistic direction are their own, we believe that is still their music.”
• We believe in transparency for our customers – “We are working towards scanning each upload and including a series of questions which will allow us to determine if a track is Fully Human, Fully AI, or AI-assisted and to what extent, providing the possibility or appropriately labelling each track to provide transparency to our valued customers.”
• We will adapt as the landscape evolves – “AI technology, detection capabilities, industry standards and legal frameworks are all evolving rapidly. We are committed to staying engaged with these developments.”

You can read Traxsource’s full statement below:

 

In the end, they all use AI to expose AI.

A lot of AI-generated music is bound to slip through the cracks, meaning we're already infiltrated by AI everywhere.
The statement in support of art and artists is, of course, welcome and makes sense.

 

I've stopped listening to new music other than my friends' output, my friends' recommendations and my own set of "known quantities". Effort vs reward.

 

~ Wrestling With Technology For The Win ~

Late last year, like in December, I discovered a 'shoegaze-rock' project or group from Japan that I quite like, called Wintermute. Their vocals, I found out a little later, are apparently done with earlier versions of Yamaha's Vocaloid.
In a way, I don't mind, in part because I have the imagination that the songs could be redone later, using a real human voice, and in part because I like the songs in and of themselves anyway, which seem to have an integrity, despite the use of Vocaloid, but maybe even because of it, such as WRT perfect pitch and pitch oscillations and so forth. Like an inspiration for a real vocalist if they wanted to attempt that particular level. I mean, some women can really crank it out, such as WRT my top two faves, Eivor and Liz Fraser.

Oh, and I recently heard this kiddie-sounding singer-- possibly real, not Vocaloid, but that seems to sound and be inspired by it. So maybe the corporates picked up on the 'kiddie/helium/munchkin/chipmunk-sounding' voices and decided to find a real one and see if it could gain any commercial appeal/success. Do you know who I am talking about? I forget.
Anyway, here's a sample track, which I quite like, from Wintermute. The vocals in this particular track don't sound too 'helium':

You could probably remove that 'vocal stem' and, failing the feasibility to access the real human deals above for some recording sessions, clone both voices, and then insert them into all Wintermute's songs.

Here's another fave:

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"Animals don't do what humans do via speech, namely, make a symbol stand in for the thing. As Tim Ingold puts it, 'they do not impose a conceptual grid on the flow of experience and hence do not encode that experience in symbolic forms.' " ~ John Zerzan
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"...The map is a simulacrum that, as a model, loses all reference to reality... reality exists only as rotting shreds that are attached to the map, and this is the state of our age according to Baudrillard; that the model, itself, has primacy for us; the real has become irrelevant..." ~ Frances Flannery-Dailey

 

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I can still recognize AI-generated music by the quality of the mix most of the time, the drums like the kick, snare, and clap just don't fit together. Kick drums usually do not fit in the mix.

You can also tell by the stolen melodies and often the vocal samples.

These AI models are just fed with 200 songs of a certain genre, and what comes out simply sounds like something from those 200 songs... whether it's 500 or 1,000 songs, you can still tell.

AI isn't creative like we humans are because it's just not an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) yet that can creatively move and create like a human.

Anyone who listens to a lot of music still recognizes that AI stuff.

The majority of people who just consume music don't stand a chance anymore.

So, if an AI-using "creator" uploads 50 tracks per week, they will still make good money as long as platforms like Beatport, Traxsource or Platform XXX have no way to detect AI-generated music.

 

There're two particular branches of my questionings regarding AI that go something like this:

Branch 1: Why are they doing entire songs first and not the instruments first? Maybe because they are AI people and so not necessarily versed in music making? And/Or because it's easier for the software to work backwards?

Branch 2: Why are they putting AI out now? Why are they taking AI out of the research labs now? AI doesn't appear ready yet. Why go all crazy with data centers, etc., now? Is that how science works? Is that how scientific discoveries relate to their incorporation into the everyday? Or is there something else going on? Some kind of social engineering that has to happen fast because of societal energy declines? A 'Great Reset' redux?

Last-Minute Bonus Branch 3 (but likely the most important): Why are people in AI generally not talking about distributed AI? I mean, isn't the internet, one big global data center already? What about SETI@Home for AI? (Yes, some appear to be working on it, but it's not spoken about as much, perhaps because if everyone has a hand in its processing and storage, then there's less localized control by the authorities?)

 

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