I disagree, it's not that hard to moderate. Lemmy is not a legal system, if a mod mistake happens no one gets hurt. Appeals are easy, and you can specify in the rules that AI content must come with a disclaimer and description of why its OK if it wants to stay, otherwise it gets banned with everything else AI.

For the 0.1% "OK" AI songs mods just have to stop and read a sentence description, its not an overwhelming burden for something that maybe comes through once a month.

I agree that we should start with a ban all AI content. But we could easily make exceptions for actual effortposts like those listed in the parent comment. It's not a huge leap. AI slop? Banned. Novelty from someone who used a tool that included AI? Well its not really slop, so don't ban it.

The problem is that only accounts for such a small percentage of AI output

Ban AI here and there can be another community for that kind of content.

If it's rare, then there won't be enough of it to sustain another community. An easy way to moderate for this could be to just ban outputs of the most popular, easy to use tools like Suno, and ask for an explanation of the process to be provided.

The problem is that only accounts for such a small percentage of AI output, that it is impossible to moderate for.

Why? The moderators are human, yeah, they might make some mistakes, but I think communicating these basic guidelines to posters to discourage slop AI use, and seeing occasional experimental AI use is feasible. Especially if you put in "if you are going to post AIs, please explain the reason why it fits into an acceptable criteria" , and ban the rest of the slop posts.

besides, the stuff I'm talking about ends up making niche, experimental music that is hardly going to blow up and take lemmy by storm. You know what it sounds like when you put sheep in a pen and have them press buttons? Random. You know what it sounds like when you interpret the messy data of realtime twitter? Random. It gets old quick, but it's a fun little thing that some people will enjoy for a bit, and take home something to think about.

My view is that it will go down as well as posting other experimental work; five upvotes, 2 downvotes, off the main page by sunset. I'll even put my money where my mouth is, I'll post something (non ai) experimental now and see how well it does.

EDIT : Why did the experimental piece get more upvotes than a more regular metal song?? I don't know what to take away from this.

https://lemmy.world/post/40877878?scrollToComments=true > Experimental music , 7 upvotes
https://lemmy.world/post/40569003?scrollToComments=true > death metal, 3 upvotes.

Or is it more like a drum machine with baked-in algorithms written by software developers?

even better, using a scripting language that calls algorithms.

EDIT : Fair point though

Kinda? I know what the difference between LLMs and proc gen is. I don't think that it will be clear if a ban comes into place, and people are so knee-jerk at anything that isn't 100% human made that they will care and demand anything that uses any kind of artificial intelligence or non human composed and played music be burned at the stake.

Also, I think that LLM based generation is a subcategory of proc gen. I think LLM based stuff *can* be set up in non slop ways to create non slop work, and I want the "experimental" high effort LLM stuff to be treated as such.