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I descended into a soulcrushing yearlong depression and watched as things only got predictably worse. (i.e., Suno, Boomy, AIVA) However, the desire to create never left me. In fact, it only grew. After spending enough time in darkness, I decided to pick myself up, dust myself off and fight. Over the course of 6 months, I built this platform.
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Nice work! Ive also a built a somewhat related tool that is a crowd-sourced list of AI musical artists. Please feel free to contribute if you find any not on the list!
https://souloverai.com
love this idea, and maybe i've just not dug far enough into the site, but what is the vetting process here? i see an artist listed that i've followed for a while, and while not to say that historical activity absolves an artist of AI slop, i'm hopeful there's a process to confirm they're witches before lashing them to the stake
Great question! We look through bios, social media activity, and use SubmitHub’s AI song checker. I’ll soon be adding a ‘Dispute’ option so if an artist wants to argue their case for removal, they will be able to do so.
Now THIS is solid. Bookmarked.
This is awesome, thank you!
Much appreciated!🙏
Congrats! That's very much needed! I'm gonna sign up to put my music there. Hopefully, this can make our music go to those who really would love to listen :)
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I gotta ask, since this is an "AI free" site:
I noticed it is built with NextJS, which is the platform of choice for all the AI code apps out there like Loveable, and you said you only started 6 months ago.
Did you code this by hand, or did you use generative AI to create this new platform?
Next.js is just the web framework. It’s commonly used by many non-AI sites. As stated in our FAQ from day one, the platform was built over 6 months and yes, the codebase is founder-built. We occasionally used assistant tools for things like debugging.
OK, giving you the benefit of the doubt, but I can't help but be curious and you're putting it out there:
Crickets, of course...there's something disingenuous about this whole thing.
Based
To be fair most of outrun and synthwave music is generic background music that could have been made by AI. Saying this as someone who was very into it a few years ago. Nothing wrong with background music by the way.
That's not fair at all.
I'd even call that a shit take.
But that's my opinion.
I stopped listening YouTube playlist at the moment they added ai slop. I just don't want to listen ai slop at all. The moment I think "is this ai?" thr listening moment is ruined to me.
If you come across any suspected slop, you can look it up here: https://souloverai.com Feel free to also report any you come across too.
Disclaimer: I built the site.
To be charitable to AI music for a moment, background noise that you're barely listening to is it's best use case, you're right there.
But the issue with what you said is the implication that all instrumental synthwave music is only good for background music, when typically there is a lot of intentional choices made in it's creation that rewards focused listening.
There exists a fair amount of poor synthwave music out there that is very generic, but the good stuff rises above it all. The problem with platforms allowing AI generated music on them is that this stuff gets mixed up with the rest of it, strongly diluting the genre so that the vast majority of it is this generic, boring sound, and it becomes very difficult to find the good stuff, because there's too much to listen to and it's getting harder and harder to discern at a glance what is AI.
That's not good for the listeners, artists trying the break through, the wider community, or music as a whole.
I'm generally a supporter of AI music, unlike most here I imagine. But AI generated music needs to be contained to it's own platforms, very clearly labeled, and not used by conmen trying to deceive a trusting audience of existing platforms to turn a quick buck.
I think AI "stations" will become quite popular in the future, specifically for that "background music" use case, but anyone trying to specifically listen to music for the actual art and expression need to be able to trust that the platforms they use are AI free.
I am strongly in favour of the strict separation of the two categories of created music, and I think everyone should be on the same page on this one, regardless of their stance on AI generated music. It just benefits everyone except the grifters.
Yep I agree overall. I don't think that a specific distinction for AI is particularly needed though, what matters is the quality of the music. If it's background noise it's background noise, AI or not. And if it's quality it's quality, AI or not.
Then we don't agree overall.
If people want to listen to music created by an artist, that is music and not just "content", then they need to have faith that the platform they are using is not going to serve them up what they don't want to listen to.
Quality isn't just just measured in terms of what's aesthetically pleasing to listen to. A lot of authored music is made to be challenging and to invoke specific emotions and feelings, especially in the synthwave and outrun genre. AI generated stuff may accidentally invoke the same feeling, but it's not designed to, and that intention is very important to the listening experience.
Generating music isn't pressing a button and publishing what you get. You can definitely invoke emotions by design, after all you are the one telling the AI what to do. Obviously it is way way easier to shit out slop background music with AI than it is to make it manually, but it doesn't mean that all AI is slop. It's that simple.
There is no need to gatekeep music. Some of it is made by people with 30 years of experience on priceless complex audio devices. Some of it is made by a random guy on a software he cracked to run it on its old pc. And some more can be made by a guy who used an AI tool.
I'm well aware of how it works. I use Suno myself, and I know that it's difficult to get outputs that align with the vision your looking for. I know how many iterations and generations are made to try and curate something good, and then the amount of effort required to edit it into something you can be happy with.
But none of that has anything to do with what I'm saying.
If someone wants to listen to something with specific authorial intent, that was manually created by a human, they should be able to find that on a platform and have full confidence that they're not being deceived.
I don't take issue with listening to AI music, and yet I do also want to listen to humanly created music and know that what I'm listening to was created by humans. And I'm the most agreeable case.
It's not gatekeeping to keep the two separate, it's allowing both to flourish in their specific niche, without muddying the waters for everyone.
If you want to listen to rap music, should you have to filter through a list of rap, country and metal music to listen to what you want? Is separating them into different lists gatekeeping? No. It's categorising, and it is vitality important that AI generated music is separated from traditional music, or faith will be lost in those platforms.
Yeah, I totally agree that separating and tagging is important and useful, but I don't see what you get from tagging AI in particular. It would be like tagging "made on Windows" and "made on Mac". What is the point?
Because people care about if something was made by a human or generated by AI...
You continuing to feign ignorance of that fact is getting a bit weird.
Why would people care about that?
See this is what I mean by feigning ignorance. Because there is no way you don't know the answer to that. It's a weird act.
There's a huge wave of general anti-AI sentiment that want nothing to do with any form of generative AI.
There is a lot of people out there that believe that music is more than basic music theory, and an expression of the human creating it. When people describe AI generated music as soulless that's what they mean.
And then there's people like me who would just like to know what I'm listening to. If an artist makes a few tracks you like, there's a good chance that others made by them are good too, which is why finding and following artists is important.
That guarantee does not exist with AI generated stuff.
The soul reason is, that what’s the point? Why would you cut the human aspect out, even if it’s a single note played over 6 hours and nothing changed, the artist still decided to do that to convey real human emotion. When you type something into a prompt box and get an output of a song derived as the most average sounding song by reference of the entire database, you didn’t put any soul into it, you typed a sentence and got something out. If generative AI output something- it’s deriving from stolen work in its database; of songs that have been made before. You could just go and listen to the tracks that people put their everything into, and if they put their nothing into it too— that’s art. GenAI has no commentary, no life, no interesting twist, nothing.
Reward yourself with learning an instrument or music program or anything and record it on a shitty mic, you’ll feel incredible the work you put into it and get back out. Don’t take the easy way out. A simple way to learn why your statements are regressive to the artistic world is to make the music yourself, and in turn you’ll learn why people care about it. Good luck in your music journey through the friction and practices to refine your skills, it’s super fun.
Don’t take the easy way out.
Nope. Wrong.
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you’re definitely in the wrong sub if you think this is a “safe space” for your AI bullshit
You're in the wrong sub, champ.
We prefer music made by actual people with individual styles, not by AI copying existing music and pushing out some shit with no style.
I love when I can tell what artist I'm listening to just by the sound.
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haha how can you act like you know anything about outrun when you think its main point of inspiration was the 90s
Lmao what?
No it doesn't