Welsh band spent a decade building a fanbase — an AI imitator outpaced them in two months
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Lucas Woodland, frontman of the Welsh post-hardcore band Holding Absence, recently made a disturbing discovery on Spotify: an AI-generated act that cites his band as an influence has more monthly listeners than their human inspiration.
Holding Absence has been around for a decade; the AI “band,” Bleeding Verse, only launched on Spotify in late July.
“It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting,” Woodland wrote on X. “Most importantly – it’s a wake up call. Oppose AI music, or bands like us stop existing.”
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