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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

It's a nice thought, but it depends on people disclosing that they used AI.

They've created a monetary incentive for people to hide their use of AI. Sure, they may catch the people who use commercial services which watermark their output but music generation can be done on relatively inexpensive (compared to frontier LLMs) hardware and there is no way to automatically detect it.

It's a good thing that Tidal is doing, I'm just skeptical that it'll do much except to make people more creative about hiding it.

[–] otterpop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Between that, having high bit rate music, and last I recall being the music streaming platform that pays the actual artist the most, Tidal is making a strong case for being the best platform out there.

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world -2 points 44 minutes ago (2 children)

I like AI music for certain things just having a bit of music helps me focus

[–] greasewizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 minutes ago

You live in a world saturated with music. You never needed a generative AI to do that

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 points 4 minutes ago

A quick googleing says tidal has 110 million songs, spotify 100 million, apple music 100 million, youtube music 100 million... you get the idea there is functionally an unlimited ammount of human generated music. You will never finish any of these services' catalogs. Don't use slop.

[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Makes me pretty glad I switched to Tidal

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Does streaming music off a proprietary platform owned by a rapist makes you glad?

[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 3 points 30 minutes ago

Eventually I will put the time and effort to move over to a self hosted system, but as of yet I haven't.

Grand standing from your high horse helps no one, and makes those of us that agree with the position seem like jackasses from association, so please refrain.

[–] otterpop@lemmy.world 3 points 39 minutes ago

And I assume you only stream from the finest non proprietary platform owned by a cooperative of saintly patrons? What platform do you use?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Just depends on how and what you do with it. All this means is people will just hide their usage of AI. Used an LLM to come up with some lyrics? Just don't disclose it. Sampled and mixed with AI, don't disclose it. Hell all of the mastering tools now have AI jammed in there as well.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] Mihies@programming.dev 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They are preventing AI to earn few cents /s

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Tidal pay artists more than most platforms, and over four times as much per stream as Spotify. That's not to say it's not still part of a broken system, but most other platforms are worse.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 49 minutes ago

While that's true, it's a low bar. Ideally artists get some meaningful payments. There is also an issue how they count streams, do they count them correctly etc. From what I remember, it's very shady.