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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
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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/)!