aron ottignon

Thanks @kieranpressreyn for reading my questions about the bandcamp AI ban and following up on them. Their answers confirm my suspicions. “The policy is focused on authorship, not tools: who is doing the creative work, and how that work is presented to fans.” His piece elaborates upon how this doesn’t make things any clearer. This will only become even harder to judge. Thanks for doing journalism! pitchfork.com/thepitch/unpac…

I support what bandcamp is trying to do They are important and curate their editorial so well. I always disliked streaming and love album culture. Someone commented maybe it is best to first ban all ai and figure it out afterwards. Fine! People are panicked by ai, and most of it is stupid, but I wanted to point out it is not so simple and we should not let a climate of uncertainty lead us to make conservative judgments about who is or is not legitimate

producer x becomes virtuosic with models. He can’t sing or play a traditional instrument so well but like all great producers searches for what he needs to hear and spends months producing a 4 track ep of a new sound. producer y learns on YouTube how to make generic beats from sample packs and pushes out a few a day Whose art is more human and whose art do you want to hear? A lazy assumption with ai is that the laziest people use it, and the most dedicated people use traditional tools that is silly why wouldn’t humans thirsty for new sounds use models that let you infinitely rabbit hole on creating sounds? Are software developers running claude code agents lazy or insatiable? I am insatiable. I want more sounds and opportunities to cut and mutate and intervene

Putting the ban in bandcamp! It is a wicked problem so I understand what they are trying to do. I’m sure the human moderators won’t be banning artists exploring AI, rather I hope will just be looking to filter out soundspam The gray area will only get larger