Have you ever ever heard of Damaged Avenue? In fact you have not. They’re simply one other AI-generated bullshit metallic factor meant to scrape away what little royalties bands truly get by some grasping scumbag, and make zero cultural affect with its stolen “artwork.”
Damaged Avenue at the moment has 127,000 listeners on Spotify, is on loads of playlists to the purpose the place they have their very own Spotify-generated “This Is”, and is shamelessly stealing from bands like Knocked Free, Counterparts, and The Satan Wears Prada. Which is disappointing, however undoubtedly par for the course in the case of Spotify not giving a care about musicians. Doubly so contemplating it appears most of Damaged Avenue’s “recognition” comes from AI-generated playlists.
The challenge not solely steals their music, but additionally appears to be utilizing shitty AI-generated variants on the covers of different artists data. For starters, what number of variations can you notice of Knocked Free‘s newest effort You Will not Go Earlier than You are Supposed To? I will wait.
Counterparts vocalist Brendan Murphy is predictably pissed off, stating on his Twitter: “$100 to anybody who can get me the legit contact information for James Trolby I received’t do something fucking loopy you received’t get in bother.” Whether or not “James Trolby” is an actual individual, a pretend identify, or simply one other layer of obfuscation behind the challenge stays unclear.
However yeah, that is what the longer term seems like if no person stops it: pretend bands, pretend artwork, pretend individuals, actual cash — and none of it going to musicians who truly create one thing.
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