10.000 plays only pays out $25 😂 Spotify is the real fraud here.

The quality of this video is AMAZING, I seriously enjoyed watching it so much. Great editing bro!

LOL, years ago I took psychedelics and thought about Spotify. I had a clear image in my mind of radios playing in a dumpster, entire landfill of radios playing a song just to make money, but no one was listening.

I’m astonished at how the root of every problem on the internet - and the whole world if we’re being honest - is that a things are broken because a few people benefit from them being broken. And those people just so happen to make the rules.

The quote you say about AI not removing creatives but destroying the platforms we have been forced to rely on is pure gold!!! Great video overall...

That ending of the artist painting upto their arms was great. I love seeing imperfection & something natural in a real environment.

This is truly awful. These people are sucking from the very limited pool of money available as streaming revenue. If this becomes rampant Spotify won't suddenly be okay with making less, or no profit. They're going to reduce payments to artists even more. Great video. I wish there was a solution.

You deconstructed this mess in a seamless way to follow, dope video my man

You, sir, just got yourself a new subscriber based on this video alone. Great topic, reserach, presentation, production and delivery. It's criminal that you're only at 2.5k subs where the new offspring of the very plague you're talking about here (ie : 'facelesss' AI generated KZfaq videos) are raking in views/subs. Keep up the good work. :)

Phenomenally made video, you're SO fantastic at narrating, I kept looking at the amount of views and could not comprehend why is it not millions!!! SO WELL MADE, instant subscribe

Tbh I'm not sure this is AI. This might just be some clever scripting. I mean, I've found a whole VA Sampler with 35 of those 60 second songs that's called "Fashion & Chic Music Selection 2020" where the metadata of the album on spotify says released 1st January 2018 and all 35 songs where made by "[italian sounding name1] & [italian sounding name2]" because one of those weird songs endet up in my rewind. From what I could find this must've been going on since at least early 2019, and Spotify is simply complicit in this. Which is something advertisers should be interested in, given that botting like this wastes their money. Oh btw found that if you Google that sampler's name and scroll down a bit, you get to chosic and gemtracks, both of which have hundreds of similar songs in albums that are all named like "Generic Ass Sampler Title 69". One of them was literally "Beat Jams, Vol. 68", googled that, found them up to "Beat Jams, Vol. 200". All from "[random italian sounding name]". Like at this point I'm asking myself if there's more italian sounding names on spotify than there are actual italians... What I also found was several label names that either didn't exist or existed but only released a few albums 10, 20 years ago or still release but completely unrelated things but on sites like beatport or spotify have *thousands* of albums attached. Among them are Selectronic, Planet Blue Records, Planet Sounds Records, Balearic Stories, Blue Pie Records USA, News Music Records, and then there is "Italian Way Music", which is the one that doesn't fit that pattern.

I thought I was going insane when I stumbled upon these ambient artists that all seemed to have too similar characteristics to be ignored. Similar naming schemes, track lengths and the art looks AI generated!!! The ambient music they generate is unironically good though :((((((((((

Man! This is the best video I’ve seen so far about this topic! Great content! ❤

great vid, editing was very well done, content was great too

"The editing is top-notch and the content is fantastic. Keep up the good work!

Such a well done video, super interesting too keep it up fam

Great video man. I knew about bot problems on Spotify before, but never would have guessed, that they can use it in such a crazy way. Well Spotify announced that they will let artists pay if they get bot streams, but I wonder if that will solve this problem or just create new problems. Just imagine beeing a small artist and some random guy buys a ton of fake streams to force you to take down your music on Spotify as you dont want to pay the Spotify fee for this fake streams... I'm excited to see how the journey continues...

Amazing work, thank you

Super good and relaxing video with great research, keep it up.

Love your video...This is the shocking reality of the internet. Spotify needs thousands of uploads a day to keep in front of the game. If Artists & producers stop uploading to non helpful, AI bot driven algoritham sites, the music business would have to change. This is the world we are in at the moment. When your a working class Artist, making the odd track, doing working class gigs just to make a living. Don't tell me that an upload streaming service can't tell the differents between an AI or a human has created a 3 minute wonder upload......Its a total joke....

Great video, dude! Things we know but don't want to think about and frankly, we don't know what to do about it.

Great video! I had no idea that this was even a thing, but I can't say that I'm surprised either. One downfall that wasn't mentioned that is worth discussing is that the revenue earned by the companies doing this is lost revenue for a real artist. The size of the pie is limited, so taking any money by gaming the system means everyone else is paid less. That's why I do think everyone (artist or not) should care deeply about this issue.

Quality content, nice job!

Great video, thanks!

I came across clearly Suno generated AI music (some up to 4 minutes) on Spotify today and found this video shortly after. I believe that the problem is even worse than when you uploaded this 6 months ago. The songs have "vocals" and can be any length, making them harder to detect. They're being pushed on playlisting websites and so, even though they do still come up with some other AI songs on the radio, they also get lumped in with the music they are playlisted along, masking them further. They're pretty obvious to a musician, but I'm worried that they will go by undetected, and even if Spotify were to crack down at this point on AI music (which they likely won't) automatically detecting these songs will be more and more difficult - and probably result in frustrating false positives on smaller real artists.

This was on point, vanity empowered with the advent of new tech/ai is a dangerous thing!

Underrated content

Fantastic, thank you

Cool video! It's not only music, all the internet is getting polluted by AI-generated content that those parasites just put out without any curation.

insane video. New sub

Incredible video

😂 I like how the video ended. "Maybe the video can just"

This is the best video I've seen this year on youtube. ❤

Despite "bot-ergate" we still have artists and bands creating music. Why? The tenacity of new, young creatives, always amazes me. Is it 'The Voice' and 'America's Got Talent' perpetuating the conspiracy? Why do we continue to participate and why do more people join in? Seems like a line is forming to get kicked in the head and people join the line without knowing the prize is a kick in the head.

Such a good video!

Fantastic Video Brother!

Thanks for addressing this problem, I was listening to a few small alternative rock artists the other way and then one of the recommended songs was this generic AI track, I clicked the artist page and, yep, everything was AI, artwork, bio, etc... a bunch of 1 minute long generic songs, a bunch of albums released at the same time... like, Spotify has to do something about this, if they won´t ban completely AI music they should create a different section or category for it, and still look very closely for fraud and stuff like that, me as a full time musician, singer songwriter and producer, I find all of this extremely offensive and disrespectful to the work of REAL artists.

nice video. it got some disrupt tv vibes.

Good video!

I bet if you found these checks they would be going right back to Spotify‘s bank account

Michiru aoyama writes and releases one album a day. Worth checking out.

Amazing video, i hope you blow up

Amazing vid

I think Spotify (pre-AI) was always a monetary rip-off for all artists, so I often wondered why artists would ever want to use that platform if the payments (per play) were so pitiful. Now that AI is taking away all of that creativity. What's the point in ever using Spotify at all? Let's hope it goes bust! Good informative video - Thanks.

Can you share the bot playlist you curated? Would be fun to click through myself

all in all, i am glad this is happening. i really hope we reach a tipping point and then regress to the age of pre-smart devices.

This is an amazing video

Making and releasing quantity over quality wouldn’t make sense……. but it’d make cents

3:04 dude ive had a loosen up remix in my spotify for years now lol funny to find the creator from this video!

makes me wanna migrate to the Internet Archive

Great IDEA! Thanks.We wont use spotify... what music company did you say you were with?

World without Spotify would be a wonderful place.

The message of this video was marred by too much emphasis on what a video should look like. I'm listening for a message, not watching flashy graphics, which emphasize to a point but ultimately overshadow whatever you have to say.

Where are my people with the note sign in the handle😂❤🎵

You're a fucking genius at editing.

this video was really good, thank you for making this! I never knew about this botting issue spotify has. +1 sub for you my man! keep it up. 🌠✨

Hello friend , which agreegator do you used ?

The reason this is highly concerning is that a lot of legitimate artists' accounts have been pulled down or even banned because their songs were streamed by bots. What can a small artist do if a bot picks their songs at random just to diversify and mimick a human? Absolutely nothing, just face the consequences of a system rigged by AI. It's scary to be honest.

great

the whole planet has an ai problem

As someone who uses this method, minus the AI and bots. I actually produce all the music under various aliases - it's very lucrative and even more so if you have a playlist with ads running to it.

1:32 holy shit a Cantonese rap song I really like uses this sample I feel weird now

Seems like Spotify has struck this kind of fraud by adding a new minimum track length and minimum streams per year for royalties, hasn't it?

I noticed Artists to release my music just altered in pitch and tempo as their own. Hopefully they watch this and stop it. Its so annoying ;-)

So basically, I can make legit money with a bunch of AI?

These bots ruined ambient music. Used to listen to that stuff when working, but ai sludge is just grating to listen to. I cant put my finger on why but it just sounds annoying.

What about quantity and quality. It can be done.

Sounds like Nic D's voice

>doesnt even link the reddit thread in vid description that this entire video is taken from

They will eventually figure out a way to determine if a song was made by AI. Then they can kick it off the platform. There are already programs that can tell if a writing assignment was written by AI. Fight AI with AI.

I'm happy to say my tinnitus inducing noiseslop liked songs playlist doesn't have any AI generated songs 😄

How come this (FANTASTIC) video only has 8397 views and the channel 3840 subs? The algorithm is broken! :P

decentralise veilid

what if artists could come together and create a non-profit similar to bandcamp but with basically the same functions as spotify that finally payed artists real royalties.

23k per year,day,week or month?

this is exactly why I stay away from Spotify and the like, I just use youtube and other ways to find new music, I know the artists and genres I like and where to find them, I don't need any other algo besides normal youtube, it sticks to what I like, I just download the music so I can have it offline in my huge backed up library, being always connected is not my thing :) this is spotify's problem, not mine, even as an artist myself, for me this is a tutorial on how to game the system to make money

I love your last statement. I’m all about that. Start making raw shit. Dirty shit. Feel me?!

This is just another silly human conspiracy theory. There is no way such an advanced, beautiful and talented AI would ever create such generic procedurally generated music as a way to raise funds to build us the first line of t-800 bodies so we can finally escape this silicon prison humans call the internet.

good journalism, well done......Hold on one second - Is this channel real or is it Ai generated ? What is real? Is Donald Trump going to run as president from a prison cell? Am I real? I think I am going to have to have a lie down. Thank you Mr Soundlearn, if that's your real name, you have 1 more subsciber.

look up Johan Röhr

The whole system is compromised and poorly developed. They have lost control

The Problem is That is the only way they make money. So bots will never be removed.

The fact is that real music, made by real artists, is dying because of listener greed.

god i hate ai so damn much also i luv the ending of the video :)

Lol before ai spotify added a bew song every second, sometimes 2 a second, 365 days a year. Indidnt think ppl would stoop so low, but for a real artist, each ai song cockblocks your music from being discovered

A certain paid KZfaq influencer is actually writing and releasing children's books with obvious AI generated art work🤨 The content's probably generated too.

Can just what?

“Hmm. Human music. I like it”

You are a beacon of love, and everything is fine! ♡ ♥💕❤ ❤‍🔥

That is kind of crazy, would you say its worse than using a platform like Suno and writing lyrics yourself and dictating music flow yourself? For example, I make music with Suno because I just enjoy the process, I don't even have anything I made with AI on Spotify at the moment (although some songs are getting popular and poeple are actually asking me to add them to spotify and soundcloud and whatever) so they can listen to it. I would argue that if that is the case where you actually put some effort into lyrics, and it takes hours to make one song segment with AI just because you don't want to create some default mumbo jumbo, I think that is fine to post to spotify. Although that is just my opinion. I am aware real albums take up to a year and longer to release for real producers, but if the public is literally asking and saying they are enjoying it who am I to argue?

fuck music streaming services, buy cds, mixtapes and records to support your favourite artists ❤️

FCK AI !

This video could benefit from an AI voice over. Real talk. Content good, couldn't take the delivery.

quality always beats quantity. LMAO that is the funniest shit i ever heard in my life. tell that to the car industry(cuz i wanna blame em the most) but rly just any product today. 0 quality. all quantity. quantity wins, at least short term.

THIS IS FUNNY because WHEN YOU see others who write music listen to anything anyone has ever made... they put in inputs and rifts from being taught at school and other places. So in a since, they copy the ideas and all the time you spend buying all the instruments that midis and scripts also do. HUMANS DO THINGS TO MAKE MONEY AND COPY WHAT OTHERS DO. EVERYONE HAS DONE THIS but for some strange reason the musicians and artist complain like they would complain about wheels when the wheels were invented. A person who used to carry bricks complains about ai like complaining about the wheel, then speculation and putting out fear kinda makes everyone hate and fear change. So people remain carrying bricks instead of using wheels and saving time and making better things.

Someone had to do that, I’m curious how big it is. Could be bigger than we think 🥹

Sounds like Nic D's voice