rickywilhelmson.com Ricky Wilhelmson If your song uses a human voice which is not attributed to either yourself or another human artist by name, I will assume that it is a genAI voice and I will report/block you! Low-effort music generated by meat-based prompt jockeys who hallucinate themselves into believing they are artists is of no interest to me! If you use an "AI filter" to pimp up your composition's melody, rhythm, arrangement and background effects you have no right to call yourself musician and should instead use your time differently and do something useful with it. Unfortunately it has become next to impossible to distinguish between real and genAI voices. So people are telling me, why do I bother? Isn't the important thing that it sounds good? Why do I get upset about the use of genAI voices in music? I'll tell you why. genAI voices have been trained on thousands if not millions of hours of human voice recordings and the vast majority of that material was acquired illegally. Many people who involuntarily 'donated' their voices never saw a cent for their vocals and they will likely not get a cut of the royalties a genAI song generates. This means by using genAI voices you, the so called AI artist, are supporting intellectual property theft, plain and simple. Driving around in a stolen Porsche may give you the attention you crave, but it does not change the fact that you didn't have the skills to make the money required to buy that Porsche yourself. If AI generated music accumulates on this and other digital music platforms musicians should ask themselves if online music production is worth their effort and if they might be better appreciated by focusing exclusively on live events and forget about the machine-infested online experience. For me the answer to this question is clear. If SC and others don't take measures to curtail machine generated junk, I am done here. (31.5.25)
