I saw that Indie Gala has a royalty free music bundle for sale of this - https://www.arcade-origins.com/
Thing is, checking their site, there’s no way to actually buy straight off them, which is super weird. All “covers” are AI images and every video on YT channel was posted after Jan 2025.
I don’t know enough about music other than listening to it, so I have no idea what cues, if any, to look out for when it comes to AI music. I also do not want to spend a single cent buying something done with AI.
If the artist has released 10 albums in the last month.
ETA: Also, do they have any web presence other than on streaming services, any live shows, or any other evidence of their existence?
is it on YouTube? it’s AI.
is it on SoundCloud? it’s AI.
was it published after May 2021? it’s AI.
Theme 1 : 2mn00s
Theme 2 : 2mn00s
Theme 3 : 2mn00s
Theme 4 : 2mn00s
Theme 5 : 2mn00s
Theme 6 : 2mn00s
Theme 7 : 2mn00s
Theme 8 : 2mn00s
Theme 9 : 2mn00s
Theme 10 : 2mn00s
That’s pretty suspect.
Also,I can’t see any company info whatsoever. I would never give money to a nonexistent entity.
Here is an example of a legit music licensing company. https://www.extrememusic.com/
Notice how every song has lots of artist credits and licensing information? For example:
HEIST (FT. KXNG DOPE) (EXPLICIT) Details Publishing Lyrics Composers Dae One ASCAP: 1188044151, 33.34%
Michael Christopher Bowden ASCAP: 527364153, 33.33%
Kxng D.O.P.E. ASCAP: 820452078, 33.33% Collecting Publisher
EXTREME MUSIC CANADA INC SOCAN: 860583422, 100% Original Publisher
EXTREME MUSIC LIBRARY LTD PRS: 500879361, 100%
ISRC GBBPP2502923
AI music usually is sometimes spottable because the vocals sound auto tuned. The vocals sound very autotuned. You can also hear digital artifacts like if he had been compressed to very low bitrates or been through some heavy denoiser.
After listen to for while also, and this may be a personal thing, but my body starts rejecting it, like if I was listening to the same song 10 times even though they were different songs. It’s weird and hard to explain.
I get that rejection thing, some friends and I were listening to spotify and they shoved in their AI “music” into our playlist, and after a bit everyone was confused on wtf it was… but yeah, hard to describe it. Like it’s just wrong or gross even. Like you’ve just touched a wet rag that’s been stuck in drain pipe and for some reason it’s warm.
If the album art is AI it’s very likely the music is AI.
There are a bunch of music artists who used to use random images for youtube thumbnails who switched to AI images when it became viable, I assume because it’s more legal not to use copyrighted art without permission and because they could have more control over the image, so I think it would make sense to also look for some other indications the music itself was generated.
Based just on what you described, it sounds like it’s AI generated.
Ugh, there’s a name I hadn’t heard before - Indie Gala. I used to have been wheeling and dealing a lot on getting games on sales for 10 years and they just look like an insultingly cheap place down to the games they push out.
It’s like autotuning, is the vocalist’s voice going in ways that is completely impossible? That’s a sign.
I’m not sure if there’s reliable ways to detect it automatically, but seeing if they have any sort of presence outside of where you are purchasing it would be a start. I’d normally say look on MusicBrainz but even if the bundle above is legit, it’s not the sort of music that would end up on there I suspect as the website owner appears to be the creator and there’s no obvious artist attached to it.
Anyway, that bundle seems suspect to me.
This is it, but I assume that, eventually, ai “music” outfits will have their own websites and merch and all that
Does it sound like it was played with hands containing more fingers than what a normal human would have?
Buckethead sounds like that and he ain’t AI; just hella gnar on the guitar. 🤷♂️
- Is it on vinyl?
- Was the vinyl pressed before 2000?
