jesus man, music - art - is about feeling something. what the fuck
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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Unsettling is a feeling of sorts
that is insightful.
There's no difference whatsoever between how a good AI song and a good organic one makes me feel. None.
make out with an atm machine? what, it's got slots....
Just sucks the ai learned it by stealing. Valid take though, I guess. It feels a lot like saying, "factory farming is great for me. All I care about is meat that tastes decent. That's it."
Factory farming isn't a bad analogue as it's the only morally indefensible behaviour I knowingly partake in. Though personally I'm unconvinced about the unethicality of AI, but that's not what this thread is about.
Kevin Macleod already shared this sentiment and published AI generated and AI assisted tracks as well.
Kind of interesting considering he's the king of modern royalty free music.
If you just want to be distracted and have happy ears then this seems a reasonable take.
I guess it’s a bit like burger chains - lowest common denominator for the largest market share. The thing is, the real food lovers will always be at the artisanal meat patty stand instead.
I though you'd say they won't eat burgers and will go to steak house or seafood restaurant.
I hate every sentence I just read. Take the upvote. AI music is the music for people who say they like all kinds of music. Music with no taste. Its like saying you could cook a potato a million ways but your favorite is raw.
Edit: since the music you posted is a pale imitation of trip hop please listen to something with some artistic value that might make you feel something.
I don't like all kinds of music. I don't even like most AI-generated music. I'm extremely picky about what I listen to. The thing with AI, however, is that if it can create one song in the style I like, it can then create a 2-hour playlist of songs just like that and they're all good. This is virtually never the case with human artists. When I find a good organic track and then go listen to other songs from that artist I usually don't like any of the other ones.
"all I care"
no. you do not care. you clearly state you would never put ai slop in your favourites, you just want one big play button to generate background noise.
you clearly state you would never put ai slop in your favourites
No I didn't.
It violates my sense of decency that you think a communicative medium can be replaced by something that can't communicate.
... You get a upvote but I'll be mad the entire time doing it
All music is just melodic noise. None of it communicates anythin to me whether it's organic or AI made.
I upvoted this, but now I need to go take a walk and cool off for a bit. 😡
Congrats. I hate this opinion, so it fits!
this is a great post, upvoted cause I definitely don't like AI music
It doesn't make sense how someone can enjoy art that doesnt have some sort of connection with you, as its literally a bot manipulating your emotions, but I cannot and will not judge! life is too short lol
Unpopular, yes, but also an objectively wrong use of objectively. Subjectively you find that music enjoyable, but objectively it's a statistical average of the bog standard crap you can find on on basically any radio station. Nobody can stop you from enjoying that, but don't think it makes your personal taste anything other than statistically average.
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Downvoting not for the unpopular opinion, but for not knowing what "objective" means
I have a very pragmatic view on music
You're quite self aware in your assessment, you just don't realize that being "pragmatic" about music is like being "efficient" about sex; you're doing it wrong.
This is an incredible comment
I don't think you like music. Or even understand music.
That's ok, you don't have to, but you do not know what you're talking about.
Out of curiosity, can you tell me a human artist or band that you really like?
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Gross
Congrats, you have an average taste in music?
AI are statistical algorithms. The current design means they can only ever be average.
Well yes but not really. I am not gonna act like I know much from this but I think there is some randomness in the results, that's why you just don't get the same thing every time. And there are also prompts, which is just them guessing the output based on your input and they were trained on input before blah blah blah.
In any case it would be kinda average but not really. Also the average of all music would probs sound terrible, just like when you mesh a bunch of pics together they make no sense.
I would guess it is average in a group or subgroup tho?
That's how I understand it. I mean I don't think the opinion is good, I hate it but uhhhh yea
That for sure is an unpopular opinion and I also strongly disagree.
So, take my upvote ;-)
Apart from that, In my experience there is such an incredibly large pool of great music I haven't even heard yet, that the avalanche of AI generated music does not even improve the useful quantity for an individual in a significant way, not even talking about the quality.
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I can’t believe nobody’s called you out on not knowing what “objectively” means yet.
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Imagine bragging about being a mindless consumer.
all I care about is whether it sounds good or not
"I don't care about anyone but me or anything except for what I want"
You sound selfish and insufferable.
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