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Would love to see this extend to album art as well. Even if difficult to enforce, it being a written policy would be a start

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That's an amazing step forward, much appreciated! It would be awesome if you'd also take a similar approach with both visual and written material. Regardless of the site's focus being music, the parasitic technology remains the same, and we're all in this together.

About time you acted on my reports then isn't it.

They’re not more trained to tell whether a song is AI generated or not, to be fair.

Regardless of what Bandcamp allows or not, genAI cover art is mediocre and it fuels the root of the same problem they're trying to contain.

Yeah sure, it's just the words people use on that platform. Cover picture, yay. It's not the point of my question.

Thank you so much! 🙏

As an artist who has been using your services since Bandcamp was founded, thank you for taking a stand against fascism, and continuing to bolster independent musicians by giving them a platform to share their work with others

Human Impersonation is what AI is. It's function is to subvert human beings. To destroy society. The whole industry needs banning and jailing.

Thank you

This is a great step! Would love to see this policy extended to the use if genAI for 'cover art' and writing copy.

Good to see someone making good decisions on AI music.

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yesssss LFG!!!!

thank you

solid

You should also make sure you make the distinction between A.I. and Generative by dividing the two terms. Generative Music has existed since the original Moog systems. Ambient and atmospheric can be "generated" with careful patching of instruments. the two terms are not one in the same.

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Thank you!! <3

Thank you for taking a stand.

I've been buying most of my music through bandcamp for a good few years now, so this is great to hear!

Those tools wouldn't count as ai, they are real life recorded voices and the software requires you to come up with the lyrics, melodies etc.. it's still a very human made thing. They use a little bit of ai but only for getting more realistic vibrato curves and pitch slides

no. if bandcamp's definition of AI includes vocaloid they will simply change their definition to exclude vocaloid, as per the divine directive of Hatsune Miku.

Thank you so so much!! Now let's hope other stores follow this trend because AI is an absolute plague to musicians and listeners alike.

Ban AI art too, generated artwork betrays trust just as much as generated music does

Great step. Because I don't want to pay a lot of money for AI slop. And yeah, as others have said, it would be great if you banned AI cover images too. How do you absolutely validate if AI is used in music, though? I figure for electronic music, DAW files could work. But for older musicians, videos?

This isn't going to work out.

Now ban GenAI images also Artists matter just as much as musicians

thank you for doing this!

I was scared by this announce about what i would find inside. I'm glad about how strict it is and respectful for the future of human made music. And to go further, I will also add like other people here to clarify your view about album covers.

This is the right move. Art is human. I'll continue to support and purchase music through Bandcamp.

Nice to see a company doing it RIGHT for once (although yes, please ban ai cover art too, thank you)

So is Bandcamp going to ban all of the AI-assisted cover art as well?

Still believe that?

W, but I would also extend this to cover art

Thank you for stating this, this is so important. We will stay vigilant and hold you to that.

Please extend this to AI generated cover art.

neat!

Hell yeah.

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Thank you for banning AI music on Bandcamp. There was so much of it that it was getting difficult to find real musicians.

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Excellent (and clever) move, thank you.

Such awesome news! But does this also apply to AI-generated covers?

It is reassuring to see Bandcamp addressing the topic of generative AI. Ensuring that artists can continue to create music and that fans can trust the music they find on the platform is essential.

Thank you for taking a stand on this! ❤️ As a customer, as a radio host who uses Bandcamp for digital crate digging and as an artist. Being able to trust the music means the world!

Great step. When are you going to recognize Bandcamp Union?

I completely agree, but why aren't Bandcamp offering this guidance to real artists on the platform? That could, like you say, help them differentiate themselves from obvious violations of the AI policy

OK, Bandcamp, now for step #2:

thank you

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