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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by smallerfish on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:49PM (#47669785)
Is formulaic pop music produced by a corporate label that's designed to push all the right buttons more "human" than the average track you find published on Suno? I wouldn't say so. Pop music was already to some extent a commodity.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by w00ds on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:16PM (#47669964)
Actually, it is more human, because there are humans involved at each level. Doesn't matter if you think the music sucks, it's definitionally more human than AI music.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by SoftTalker on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:23PM (#47670014)
It is sort of a blend now. Beats and rhythm tracks are often generated. Vocals are auto-tuned. There's still some humanity in it, but it's not what it used to be.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by userbinator on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:36PM (#47670100)
AI music is generated from the result of training on far more human-made music than any human could ever consume in their lifetime, so there are even more humans involved in its creation.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by BoiledCabbage on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:28AM (#47670764)
Just like AI comments are more human than any human could ever produce... /s
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by userbinator on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:48AM (#47670870)
There's a difference between entertainment and thoughtful content.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by throwawa34214 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:18AM (#47674104)
Music also is thoughtful content.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by yellowapple on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:50AM (#47672386)
I mean, maybe in the sense that any other corporate activity is technically “human activity” because humans happened to be the ones doing the formula-dictated tasks, but it's ultimately the formula at the helm, not the human.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by lxgr on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:10AM (#47674014)
On the other hand, humans made these AI models...

I feel like the more important distinction might be whether the creator(s) are expressing themselves or are solving an optimization problem of maximizing audience approval. The latter seems true for both some human and AI pop songs.

One is a form of communication that requires (at least to some extent) meeting both sides to meet in the middle, the other is unidirectional broadcasting.

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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by throwaway27448 on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:50PM (#47670186)
> Pop music was already to some extent a commodity.

The commodification of humanity predates human history. It may be a negative trend that alienates us from each other and from the products of our labor, but it is truly ancient.

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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by gilrain on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:54PM (#47669814)
> Pop music was already to some extent a commodity.

And as everyone knows, some commodification of some thing means we must go ahead and totally commodify all the things.

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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by smallerfish on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:12PM (#47669943)
That's disingenuous. The point is that "human" isn't a particularly good dividing line if you want to distinguish music with value vs music without.
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Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart by lotyrin on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:00PM (#47669866)
Also, a lot of the people who hate and resist AI slop also hate and resist corpo slop, we're just outnumbered.
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