Bandcamp has banned all music made with AI

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4. And btw, what you wrote about AI being used at all levels of the music industry "for a long time" is wrong and

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very misleading.

Generative AI, the type you used unfortunately to generate a song you want others to hear, has been around only a couple of years, with the two most popular AI music generators becoming available in the spring of 2024. Since then the people using them, none of whom should have been using them, have flooded music platforms with AI slop. Deezer alone has been getting more than 50,000 AI-generated tracks PER DAY.

YouTube is flooded with that crap, too.

Seriously, if you are a musician - as your mentioning rearrarranging an AI tune for real musicians suggests you might be - please steer clear of generative AI, for your sake and others'. There is a very strong backlash against the exploitation and fraud that is generative AI. I can't imagine real musicians wanting to play something written by genAI, or real music lovers wanting to hear it. If you try springing something AI generated on real musicians and music lovers, don't be surprised if they walk out or let you know in no uncertain terms what they think of genAI.