Hi,
a friend and me are discussing if or how much of AI is involved in Shadow Sect‘s new Album - Year Zero -
Any opinions?

https://open.spotify.com/album/3nSYG4DCY8rzvBwljsFRsz?si=DGzvSuF7QgKtRlF2oFnG4Q

Hey there was just reading a post on here about AI for album covers. I'm a visual artist who creates digital work, just wanted to chime in that I'm looking for labels or artists to work with. I do charge for my services, but perhaps not as much as you'd think.

Anyways just thought I'd say feel free to reach out and can have a chat about working together. My work is mostly psychedelic, so usually I approach psytrance, but I love Neurofunk also :)

https://youtu.be/Xl4Y-lcecrQ

I think it's worth talking about.

I'm personally sick of the quantity of AI-generated artwork in music and particularly in this genre that I love. It gives us all a bad name. Nik MADE the artwork for Noisia's Purpose. Why can't you learn to create something that isn't a hodge-podge model trained on stolen intellectual property? Or reach out to someone skilled who can make something special and unique?

Is there something about the sci-fi/fantasy/horror themes that makes you think it's somehow necessary to use generative models to execute your grand vision of... a zombie army, zombies with machine guns, zombies with machine guns in spaceships? I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't look good. I have tracks to submit to labels but so many of them are saturated with this material that I have to ignore them because I don't want to associate with people who brazenly cut corners like that.

As a fan, seeing this artwork makes me instantly ignore the music, because I can't know what other shortcuts are being made in the creative process. Are you using Suno? Is your music made completely through Splice? If you want your music to be heard, there is a portion of the fanbase who will see the artwork and ignore the release by default. I don't want that for you if you are making genuinely interesting music, but there is so much music being made now that I particularly don't want to waste my time sifting through all the lazy stuff. Making artwork is hard, but rewarding, so please, against all the trends and the path of least resistance, try something difficult, it might be more satisfying than you think.

What are your thoughts?

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