Cardiff-based rock band Holding Absence has just experienced the nightmare scenario—an AI generated band that listed them as an influence recently surpassed their streaming figures on Spotify. Can it really get any darker than this?

“So, an AI ‘band’ who cite us as an influence (ie, it’s modelled off our music) have just overtaken us on Spotify, in only TWO months,” frontman Lucas Woodland wrote on Twitter on September 30. “It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting—most importantly—it’s a wake up call.”

Woodland urged fans to “oppose AI music, or bands like us stop existing.” Meanwhile, Spotify recently shared its plans to crack down on AI music, claiming its removed 75 million tracks in the past year. This only seems to apply to “spammy” tracks and “slop.” Isn’t it all slop, tho

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