AI-generated content flood swamps streaming platforms
AI-generated songs at industrial scale: the flood fills platforms with noise and buries human talent. Is there a way out?
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The flood of AI-generated music and video buries human talent
A paradox: producing culture has never been cheaper, and finding it has never been harder. Tools like Suno and Udio make it possible to generate decent songs in industrial quantities. The bottleneck is no longer creation, but attention. On platforms like YouTube, the ratio has flipped: for every useful video, three filler pieces appear, made without a script or any knowledge of the subject. The complaint is repeated among creators and users: AI channels are mostly junk, and the algorithm cannot tell the difference.
Against the noise, the proposal is collective curation. A beta-stage project, MusicScout, suggests that listeners themselves act as scouts: they listen, vote on which tracks have potential and build a fruta based on their hits. The idea is not to compete with Spotify, but to separate the wheat from the chaff. Others are asking for something simpler: a filter on YouTube to hide AI channels. The option seems popular among those who want to rediscover real talent.
One uncomfortable question remains: if anyone can generate AI music at zero cost, what value does human creativity retain exactly? Or perhaps the answer is that the value shifts to the filter: whoever has the best judgment when selecting will win. But then, are we rewarding the ability to judge rather than the ability to create? The debate is only just beginning.
A paradox: producing culture has never been cheaper, and finding it has never been harder. Tools like Suno and Udio make it possible to generate decent songs in industrial quantities. The bottleneck is no longer creation, but attention. On platforms like YouTube, the ratio has flipped: for every useful video, three filler pieces appear, made without a script or any knowledge of the subject. The complaint is repeated among creators and users: AI channels are mostly junk, and the algorithm cannot tell the difference.
Against the noise, the proposal is collective curation. A beta-stage project, MusicScout, suggests that listeners themselves act as scouts: they listen, vote on which tracks have potential and build a fruta based on their hits. The idea is not to compete with Spotify, but to separate the wheat from the chaff. Others are asking for something simpler: a filter on YouTube to hide AI channels. The option seems popular among those who want to rediscover real talent.
One uncomfortable question remains: if anyone can generate AI music at zero cost, what value does human creativity retain exactly? Or perhaps the answer is that the value shifts to the filter: whoever has the best judgment when selecting will win. But then, are we rewarding the ability to judge rather than the ability to create? The debate is only just beginning.
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