I keep ending up with AI music in my playlist when exploring for me music. What is your workflow to avoid it? Searching DDG for me has been more bandwidth intensive than I like…
Some background. My favorite song is a song I haven’t heard yet. And my appetite sways wildly. One month it’s old school urban rap, the next it’s kpop, and then Nordic death metal and so on.
I never know what I’ll be in the mood for but I’ll find a thread with a song I don’t know and use it to build play lists to see what I find and sometimes I find trash gems that way.
This last time our friend group watched Eurovision 2026 together and some of those songs are bangers. One of them led to adding a few artists built off of playlists from that song I really liked, and they all ended up being AI… damnit!
By not updating my music taste for the last 15 years
Be warned that all styles of music are getting AI inserted into them.
Your method works as long as you never use an algorithm to mix your playlist, but as soon as you do, you’re likely to get an AI track inserted into your ears, even if it’s 70s classic rock.
Pretty much what every one of my friends have done. My kids were a great source in their late teens / early twenties. But as they’ve gotten older now they pretty much listen to the same stuff.
No, I’m not going to have more kids.
If your kick is new music than you should just switch languages and listen to stuff pre 2022.
I listen to a ton of foreign language music. The 2022 piece would help but it won’t last for me. Young people are always coming up with new sounds and I love that!
Using Bandcamp
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/
Piracy. Private trackers are genuinely better stewards and curators of their libraries because unlike the the slop factories, they’re made by real humans, for real humans.
By not letting an AI choose what you hear.
Seems pretty obvious, really.
I used to only rely on people making recommendations but there just isn’t enough of that with the people I know unfortunately. Though you’re not wrong…
Listen to artists I know are human, if the artist doesn’t show up in a web search sorry but they gotta go its too risky
By getting old.
I don’t purposely listen to anything made after 2015.
By listening to music from before AI slop existed.
deleted by creator
Can’t help you with music but I share your frustration when it comes to being suckered into consuming AI slop. My entire adult life, text to speech has been a constant part of my day, so I pride myself on being able to sniff out when the person talking isn’t a person.
Even with these AI voices I’ll eventually catch an odd stutter or wonky prosody, but it may take a good minute or more of listening, and when I do figure it out I feel like I’ve been scammed.
Same! I’m getting old enough to be not sure I can trust my own discernment.
Qobuz has seemed to stay on top of generated music for me so far even with recommendation playlists.
deleted by creator
Related bands are less likely to be AI than cold searches. You can also check to see if they have any social media influence, AI bands are unlikely to have any live clips
I’m doing those and they’re still getting in. But I don’t look to see if they have a presence until I’ve decided I want to know more about the band…
Definitely research them! Don’t just stop at a single song, find out what country they came from and who their influences are. You’ll start to piece together a mental map of the various bands you know, as well as discovering new bands that way.
I feel like I’ll need to do this every time I discover someone new…
I usually add new songs to one of my many themed playlists (platform of choice) then research more once I start to recognize them. Sometimes I get tired of them before then and just remove them.
Listen to songs that are more then 10 years old. My autism doesn’t like new music so I just have a playlist of over 4k. Although I did add a few from music creators from TikTok. Very little though. I’m quite strict
i only listen to music from bands that have existed since long before ai music became a thing
I own my media. I have old vinyl, 8-tracks, cassettes, cd’s and digital files. I’ve never once “streamed” music except when I turned on my AC Delco radio back in the 70’s.
