present moment - Part I

Making music, mainly with guitar. In the past (70s/80s) a lot, now from time to time. My paintings correspond to the music. You are welcome to listen and to enjoy if you like, if you can. Peace, Axel

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6so3SOW2an3VQMQFHTGT0K?si=TaSrycbYRYqdoROy7BsPXg



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Life is a work in progress, not a final copy.

If I find out that your song in my 'what I like' playlist uses genAI voices or melodies without saying so, believe me, I will slap you hard and of course I will block you!

Unfortunately it has become next to impossible to distinguish between real and genAI voices. So people are telling me, why do I bother? Isn't the important thing that it sounds good? Why do I get upset about the use of genAI voices in music? 

I'll tell you why. genAI voices have been trained on thousands if not millions of hours of human voice recordings and the vast majority of that material was acquired illegally. Many people who involuntarily  'donated' their voices never saw a cent for their vocals and they will likely not get a cut of the royalties a genAI song generates.  This means by using genAI voices you, the so called AI artist, are supporting intellectual property theft, plain and simple. Driving around in a stolen Porsche may give you the attention you crave, but it does not change the fact that you didn't have the skills to make the money required to buy that Porsche yourself.


If AI generated crap-music accumulates on this and other digital music platforms listeners and *especially* musicians should ask themselves if online music production is worth their effort and if they might be better appreciated by focusing exclusively on live events and forget about the machine-infested online experience. For me the answer to this question is clear. If SC and others don't take measures to curtail machine generated junk, I am done here. (31.5.25)

present moment - Part I

Ben Martin