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Per Forbes: "Al Singer Xania Monet Just Charted On Billboard, Signed $3M Deal." (www.forbes.com)
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Hi folks, another shitty story from the slop-pocalypse ((AI-)slopalypse?).

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Article from billboard, archive

NB: I think this story is bullshit. I imagine some parts are true, but there's no concrete source given for the "$3 million" figure. So it's my speculation that this story is hype cooked up by Suno (the AI company enabling this all) and thrown at publishers for an easy headline. Also the human behind this has their name spelled differently in the two articles, so clearly some quality journalism is happening.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The future of music, assuming this continues, is way less humans being inspired to make music.

Society fucking hates musicians, their labor is constantly spit on and devalued even as the wealthy take it as a given they will keep making music that they can steal the profit from, but there is a breaking point where artists just disappear into a daily struggle because they don't have the time, money or quality of life to keep making music and we are far past that point at least here in the US.

Enjoy your AI slop everyone, honestly we all as listeners in a way deserve this AI slop given how we have abandoned the idea artists should be a part of our future in any way that we materially value shrugs.

[–] RaoulDuke@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago

I’m hoping the pendulum will swing and people in groups playing actual instruments and using less digital filters to sound gritty and real, will make a comeback.

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