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Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by strangecasts on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:07PM (#46608033)
> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?

For me, one key difference is that I can cite my stylistic influences and things I tried, while (to my knowledge) commercial musical generation models specifically avoid doing that, and most don't provide chord/lead sheets either -- I would find it genuinely sad to talk to a musician about their arrangement/composition choices, only to find they couldn't

Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by TiredOfLife on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:24PM (#46608295)
I am 100% sure you can't cite all of them
Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by strangecasts on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:15PM (#46609061)
Depends - how long do you have, and do you accept answers in CSV, Arrow or Parquet?
Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by crazygringo on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:41PM (#46608590)
> I would find it genuinely sad to talk to a musician about their arrangement/composition choices, only to find they couldn't

So much of music composition is what "feels right" and is instinctual. Artists aren't consciously aware of probably most of their influences. They can cite some of the most obvious ones, but the creative process is melding a thousand different vibes and sounds and sequences you've heard before, internalized, and joined into something new, in a way only your particular brain could.

Let music historians work on trying to cite and trace influences. That's not something artists need to worry about.

Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by strangecasts on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:11PM (#46609006)
> They can cite some of the most obvious ones

Thus already doing much better than the average Suno producer

E: More seriously, this strikes me as a motte-and-bailey where "Artists cannot list every single influence they have or provide an explicit motivation for every single creative choice" is treated the same as "artists cannot list influences or justify creative choices at all"