Regarding AI
Message from Ross about AI:
“Obviously music videos and visuals having AI is annoyingly sometimes hard to work out (especially when it’s use is not labelled or credited). But to be fair, that can be hard to work out. If that happens on a stream (I think we’ve had a few this month lowkey), I just won’t comment on the music video at all but still comment on the song/artists.
HOWEVER.
AI music. I won’t comment on anything and will dismiss it if I find out it’s an AI vocal or any AI use in the production or instrumental. If you still enjoy that stuff, you have no judgement from me.
BUT please do not request them on streams. Here’s a few things/clues to look out for when it comes to AI music and songs on YouTube:
1) In the description of the video or even next to the title of the video, you will see a small “AI” label. (This is how it should be done legally and I appreciate the youtubers who label this, even if I don’t want to support it)
2) If it’s a song with a vocal and in the description of the video you see credits of a producer/composer etc. But zero sign of a vocalist’s name. That is an AI voice. Why else wouldn’t you credit a human who has put work into singing in the song and giving them a shoutout and mandatory credit?
3) This one isn’t as easy but I’ve seen it myself – People can enjoy the ‘vocalist’ in the comments section and ask who they are to hear more work of theirs (scary for the future of music) and the youtuber will either: Not answer their comment but answer every other type of comment OR be honest about it and say the system/software they used (again, transparency is preferred and important imo).
Thanks again! Trust me, folks, zero judgement from me if you enjoy it yourself (it does really worry me personally about the future of music) but PLEASE can you check what I said above if you have any suspicions. As you saw on stream, it’s not fun for me to dismiss a request like that with zero comments and it kinda breaks my heart when it happens.
Much Love,
Ross”
Look for something like this next to the title:
