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Here’s a good example “Phil Axes”. When I search for them online the only hits I get are from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc. I can’t find any Wikipedia, social medial, news articles or anything related to them. Also a lot of the songs are 2:30-3:00 every time.

Are these just AI generated artists and music?

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[–] s@piefed.world 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I looked up a “Phil Axes” “song” on YouTube, where it lists composer and publisher credits. The composer is credited as Fabian Friedman and the publisher is listed Copyright Control, which seems to mean it was self-published. If you search for self-published songs by Fabian Friedman using these known search terms, you get an abundance of different “artists” of different names, and way too much music for one person to output that frequently under different project names. It looks to me like Fabian Friedman is an AI ”music” spammer.

A lack of social media, blogs, or a personality on Bandcamp are a good sign that a newly surfaced obscure act may be fake.

Edit: the Google link above doesn’t work for whatever reason. Type the following into Google video search to get that link: “Fabian Friedman” “copyright control” site:youtube.com

[–] ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 10 points 1 day ago

There is no barrier for entry, you pay something like 30$ a year to Distrokid and you can upload whatever. I know a dude who makes a track a day of some sort of trance music and it's just the same track with little to no variations and he uploads it practically unmixed and unmastered. I also know someone who uploads Sumo generated AI dance music every other day but he uses some AI friendly distributor not distrokid. It is insane

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, my brother writes and self publishes music, but nobody's really heard of him, so I was thinking about his online presence. You won't find any articles, discussions or reviews, but he does have socials. Also, there's a lot of variety in his music, but it's all in the same genre.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bet that he has something like Bandcamp though. Most of these| AI "artists" don't even bother to set anything like that up.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Yeah. Pretty sure he's on that one.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

This does seem AI generated, yeah

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Funny you ask that. They almost sound procedural, however that could also be indicative of an average artist. Since I tend to list to house/lounge/downtempo, it can start to feel like that.