The Week contest: AI music
This week's question: Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated band that plays generic '70s country rock, is now racking more than 1 million listeners a month on Spotify. If the group were to release a rock song encouraging listeners to abandon human artists and embrace AI-produced music, what would it be titled?
Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Flight fraud
RESULTS:
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THE WINNER: "Hey, You, Get Onto My Cloud"
Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut
SECOND PLACE: "The Algorithm's Gonna Get You"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
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THIRD PLACE: "While My Computer Gently Beeps"
Wylder Conoly, Austin, Texas
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Grok Around the Clock"
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
"In A Gadda NVIDIA"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
"Feel Like Faking Love"
Jack Payne, Blairsville, Georgia
"AI Will Always Love You"
Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York
"Sweet Home Silicon Valley"
Troup Miller, Austin, Texas
"No Human, No Cry"
Karen Shepherd, Social Circle, Georgia
"Algorithm of the Night"
Diane Ross, Hatfield, Pennsylvania
"Upload Girl"
Raven Deerwater, Mendocino, California
"Welcome to the Machines"
Michael Grossman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"By the Light of the Harvested Tune"
John Keefe, Mount Vernon, Washington
"Fake It to the Limit"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
"In Search Of The Lost USB Cord"
Clifford Hull, Los Gatos, California
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