376
An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All
(www.whiskeyriff.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
376 points (98.2% liked)
Fuck AI
4932 readers
1623 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
My sister uses AI to gen music all the time and what annoys me most is how actually good it is at making country music.
But I mean... It's probably more just because that's a very low bar to pass in modern times because even human-made country music hasn't been good since the 90s. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
It also isn't too surprising since a lot of music, especially from certain classical musicians, was written algorithmically, too.
That doesn't surprise me too much. Have you seen Bo Burnham's Country Song, or SIX Song Country Mashup. All pop country sounds the same.
I was going to post one of those mashups. Nashville figured out the algorithms to selling music. Pop, country, Christian, all formulaic.
American pop country is musically extremely basic. Technically it's music, but you'll have no problems teaching someone that's never touched music in their life how to do it within a couple days. So it's no surprise genAI can mimic this genre and other simpler ones like all the kid's music and nursery rhyme stuff too.
American pop music in general is pretty basic, generic, and devoid of ideas. I mean this was the work of SIX song-writers.
Bakersfield country is kinda decent still but then again Bakersfield is a miserable place so I guess that have to get it out of their system somehow.