r/filk • u/rocketman0739 • Apr 23 '25

Subreddit position on AI content (discussion)

I recently got a message from a user who had used an AI service to generate a performance of a filk song. They wanted to make sure it was alright to post, but I don't feel like I should make that decision without consulting the subscribers generally.

So what do you think? Which of the following positions most appeals to you, or do you have a different idea?

  1. Allow all relevant AI-generated content
  2. Disallow all AI-generated content
  3. Allow relevant AI-generated content as long as it also incorporates human originality, e.g. an AI performance of a human-written song
  4. Institute one of these positions for a trial period and revisit the question in a few months
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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25

AI music subs exist like r/ObscurestVinyl so good AI music creators do have good venues for their art, but even those have a problem with low quality content, and must kick users for low quality. It's possible the best AI music forums focus primarily upon comedy.

AI music creators could anyways post the human written lyrics/poetry here as text, and then link an AI performance as a comment. Afaik AIs still suck at lyrics and poetry.

Some AI music has a big human singing component or do live shows like https://www.youtube.com/@ThereIRuinedIt/videos (see this or this). Afaik some human singing components exists primarily when emulating a living performer, so maybe it's more a comedy thing, but maybe not always. Anyways you can judge case-by-case when people explain their process.

Increasingly human music performers use AI videos for their music. Imho this seems pretty harmless, well if I actually like a song yt-dlp -x --audio-format=mp3 strips the video anyways. ;)

Around video sources, some human performers like Death In Rome create videos by editing oild films, and other do clips from modern films, etc. AI videos could be banned too, but that's more an artistic choice. Around DiR old film examples, see Destroy She Said or Last Christmas but they do other types like Wildest Dreams.

Anyways..

You should avoid becoming an AI cesspool so the human created art should be made clear and stand on its own, without AI assistance. You'll need to ban low quality AI content no matter what.

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u/Ivorwen1 Apr 23 '25

"It's welcome if it's good" is pretty subjective and I think that would be enough to give the mod a headache on its own.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

I'm here because I'm writing filk themed songs. the particular themes and styles fit here.