I was in Burger King the other week (Donāt judge me!), & they were playing some awful generic rubbish. Lots of tracks in the style of something you half recognise, with barely decipherable lyrics.
A quick bit of shazam & googling later, & I tracked it back to the guys below. They donāt mention itās A.I. generated on the website, but Iām pretty sure it is.
Some of the stuff (voiceovers) they do say itās AI but at least some of the artists seem to be human. Richie Hawtin has collaborated with three of them.
They claim not to use AI to generate music, but to āadaptā itā¦.
Itās getting really confusing, and thatās likely by design. I just hope we can use AI to counter AI. The public is just a lost cause.
I love creative interpretations of classic disco, funk, soul. Now, I have to ponder if the track is a legitimate human-created remix or a complete AI fabrication. With stems in the mix, things are even more complicated. DaddYās TiMeCaPSuLe on Bandcamp is generating lots of curious remixes. Most miss the mark for me. By volume of releases, Iāve really wondered if they are done with AI. But, in the case of a favorite, Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie (Daddy's reMix) | DaddY's TiMeCaPSuLe, it turns out to be a blend of the instrumental of Vibration by Los Charlyās Orchestra with the stem original (I assume) vocals of Boogie Oogie Oogie.
The legality of these remixes is a whole other issue. I wish the Mixcloud model was adopted by more sites rather the common vague policies.
Even more worrying is that there was a 70s rock song played in a pub when we were on holiday, so I used the Google equivalent of Shazam to find the name of it and the suggestion was an AI generated cover version.