I'm glad they did this. Confident in my choice to remain with Bandcamp.

Keep it up bandcamp. We are all waiting for when you enshittify like everyone else but you've held it at bay so far.

I hope more platforms ban this useless spam.

Just watch, we’re two weeks away from some tech bro trying to start a Clankercamp website. The best part is that no one except other tech bros will care.

Oh, I need to get back into Bandcamp

Bandcamp consistently throws Ws

Good.

And sure... People will obviously try to break this rule, and I'm sure some will succeed. But that's true of any rule. Rules don't prevent bad behavior, only deter it.

Great decision Bandcamp, I use Bandcamp to support musicians

Bandcamp is where you want to be if you want to support artists. they get money when you buy things from them on there

YES! YES!! YES!!! I hate having to sift through that tripe when exploring certain genres.

Neat, my current setup is :

• stream from FIP.fr via cvlc
• when I absolutely love a tune, buy on Bandcamp
• if it's not available or I bought it elsewhere, e.g. old CD, then get from Soulseek
• scp my ~/Music directory on my mobile phone

I tried LMS for few weeks but honestly just plain VLC is enough for me.

Anyway, point is, this decision makes me want to buy from Bandcamp even more.

I was buying some LPs recently and saw one that caught my attention. I looked them up and almost all their content included some form of AI.

it's bullshit.

fuck AI.

Are Bandcamp still the good guys? I thought they were bought by the big capital and now went down the drain. Artists' opinions especially welcome

If anyone needs to bypass this ban, for $3 I will record 1 minute of yodelling so your content isn’t pure AI. 

good decision, also good decision to not ban all music with ai in it. like, we got so many pedals nowadays. live pitch correction? like wtf. how is that not ai. as long as there is some human pouring their blood, sweat, tears and soul into the music, that is what i want to hear.

Bandcamp W. One of the platforms I buy music from and surf other than soundcloud. You can find some banger albums by genre on there.

It was being OVERRUN with AI stuff, hopefully this cleans it up

Good on them on recognizing that slop is undesirable and shouldn't be encouraged, but that a full ban also kills the nuance of creative freedom and creates painful situations where a single AI tool anywhere in the process (even indirectly) gets hard work rejected, which could hamper aspiring creatives in their ability to (start to) get their work out there and (start to) make a living when they are not what (most) people have issue with.

I hope all my fave autistic musicians are not mistaken for AI and deleted under a false-positive detection of being AI. At least my fave's album releases all pre-date AI music generators. Safe, for now.

I think safer would be to encourage all purely AI-generated be tagged as such, so it can be optionally toggled out of view, and then there's less incentive for the unscrupulous to simply hide that it's AI generated. Banning increases the "hide that it's AI" vibes, not the "don't do AI" vibes. Prohibition does not prevent. Prohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse.

That's nice. But I wonder how they detect them.

As they should.

On the other hand, if AI music was any good why would I go to bandcamp for it?