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+title: I got fooled by AI
+date: 2025-05-11T22:45-07:00
+excerpt: It had to happen eventually.
+tags:
+  - ai
+  - music
+---
+
+Much like my streak of not catching COVID-19 being destroyed by my own foolish hubris, I have been fooled by AI. Which is probably not that exciting of a statement anymore, but this one felt especially surprising given that I was so thoroughly fooled.
+
+The silver bullet in this case was ["Rat Detective Boogie" by stellar cruise on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hjX6ZsplU). The video itself does not mention AI in any way, but the clues are all there:
+
+- No artist credit
+- No artwork credit
+- Previously dormant account suddenly pumping out videos
+- Assuming this is a real person, they would be cranking out effectively an album's worth of material every 3 weeks or so
+- There is another video called ["Alien Funk"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIfY5JRUbO4) by the channel which has exactly the same audio but different artwork
+
+To be hopelessly pedantic, no - I don't know with 100% certainty that this is AI. There is however sufficient evidence for me to make that conclusion.
+
+The surprising thing to me though was how convincing it was. I listened to this mix at least 2 or 3 times before deciding to see if this artist had any other material, and discovered they had at least 6 (at the time) more mixes. I was hooked - this was great! The perfect sort of tunes to put on the background while working away.
+
+I'm used to the "AI music" that was prevalent a year or so ago. Barely competent, largely laughable with weird fuzz and crackling. Hearing something so clear and competent suggested to me that this was made by a human and didn't even think twice that it might be AI generated.
+
+As I am usually want to do, I looked for their Bandcamp profile to buy their music, but found nothing. It was at that point the scales fell from my eyes. The deeper I dug, more mounting evidence appeared that this was nothing but filthy slop.
+
+Said slop has already made its way onto [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/rat-detective-boogie/1798008603) and [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4uqKI2sytg99CHj72uflsX) - the latter shouldn't surprise anyone, but I thought Apple Music might be one of the last bastions of purity where artists have to be vetted in some way to be human. How naive of me.
+
+This post was largely written because of the work of [Kyle Dhillon, who goes into more detail about the evolution of "slopcore" and its increasing prevalence](https://kd-blog.notion.site/the-future-of-music-is-slopcore). There are two great examples that demonstrate the startling evolution in quality between 2024 and 2025 from Suno.
+
+What makes me sad is that it's going to be increasingly harder to tell when music is made by AI, and that companies like [Spotify are already promoting "slopcore artists" over human artists to curb their royalty payments](https://futurism.com/spotify-accused-promoting-ghost-artists).
+
+I'd like to end on a hopeful note and say that nothing has changed for me - I will continue to avoid any AI-generated creative works like the plague, and funnel as much money as I can into artists and support them however I can. If you need help finding new music, check out [my post about finding new music on Bandcamp](/posts/music-today-is-great/)!