Bandcamp has banned all music made with AI

[highplainsdem]

(Cross-post from LBN: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143598784 )

From NME: https://www.nme.com/news/music/bandcamp-has-banned-all-music-made-with-ai-3923071

Bandcamp has officially banned AI music from its platform.

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It went on to say the fact it is “home to such a vibrant community of real people making incredible music is something we want to protect and maintain”.

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It also said that any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is “strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.”

Bandcamp added: “If you encounter music or audio that appears to be made entirely or with heavy reliance on generative AI, please use our reporting tools to flag the content for review by our team. We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI generated.”

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Good for them!!!!!!!

From their blog: https://blog.bandcamp.com/

Bandcamp’s mission is to help spread the healing power of music by building a community where artists thrive through the direct support of their fans. We believe that the human connection found through music is a vital part of our society and culture, and that music is much more than a product to be consumed. It’s the result of a human cultural dialog stretching back before the written word.

Similarly, musicians are more than mere producers of sound. They are vital members of our communities, our culture, and our social fabric. Bandcamp was built to directly connect artists and their fans, and to make it easy for fans to support artists equitably so that they can keep making music.


Today we are fortifying our mission by articulating our policy on generative AI, so that musicians can keep making music, and so that fans have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans.

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[SheltieLover]

1. Def a step in the right direction!

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Thanks For Posting This

I saw it on the musicians' forum I go to almost as much as DU.
I heartily applaud this decision.