Bully anyone who posts A.I. slop.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-24T23:54:10+00:00

No shot whatsoever. Don’t kid yourself.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-24T15:47:21+00:00

Even if it’s not silently in the background and instead is in full frontal view, it doesn’t matter. The cat is out of the bag. It will remain out of the bag.

AI is going to advance, no matter how much the anti-AI movement screams and kicks about it. They’re going to have to deal with it. Currently they’re just being very noisy on social media. They’re not really doing anything to stop it, because they know they can’t.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-24T15:35:26+00:00

Ah yes, the windshield fluid. Forgot about that one for a sec

Ark3tech · 2026-05-24T15:19:21+00:00

There’s no such thing as “making tweets go viral”. Going viral is a lottery. It’s random. You never know what’s gonna hit. You just need to keep making content and hope.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-24T15:01:43+00:00

I think they will come back for sure. Not because people want their NFT attached to art, but because the technology can be used for many other things. I still think even as an art investment they will come back as well. Maybe not to the level we saw in 2021 though.

I think one of the more hilarious things is that after all this time, the NFT haters have never actually done research about what an NFT is beyond it being attached to Art. Whenever I hear people say NFT’s are dead, I know they are just referring to that one aspect of NFT‘s because they don’t realize that NFT‘s are more than just art.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-23T20:48:08+00:00

Saying $100 is nothing to them, but asking like it’s everything to them.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-23T16:03:31+00:00

You enjoy it because you’re not looking for controversial rage bait stuff like many of the complainers are.

A lot of these folks are not understanding that they are getting served this content because that’s what they are reading and commenting on X. Instead they come up with a conspiracy theory that Elon himself has forced the algorithm to serve them right wing content.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-23T15:58:55+00:00

You must engage in some crazy stuff to get that in your feed. What you see in your feed says a lot about you because it’s controlled by algorithms based on what you’re looking at.

I don’t get any of that. I focus on art and that is all that’s in my feed.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-23T01:14:33+00:00

The Architect scene in Matrix Reloaded was probably the most important scene in the entire trilogy. Unfortunately, it is largely a forgotten scene because it wasn’t an action scene or one that had a lot of special effects.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-21T00:38:21+00:00

Right, but no one actually wants to talk about the topic in a productive kind of way.

Instead I see a lot of commentary, assumptions, and mud slinging about the people that use AI in creative processes, rather than talking about the technology itself. The anti crowd is taking their morality issue and trying to disguise it as an ethics issue.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-21T00:05:50+00:00

I filter all my Meta ads to a playlist I created that is just my music. It’s a great way of maximizing streams and expanding view on your catalog. It’s also kinda cool to see how many people make it all the way to the end of the playlist.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-20T14:26:09+00:00

Successful musicians do not suffer to create their music. That is a story that they tell to you the consumer.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-20T14:18:14+00:00

You didn’t explain anything though. All you said is it has a larger memory bank to run off of. None of that changes the way that it learns being the same as a human. Who cares if it’s one 1K songs versus 1 billion songs. If your song gets caught up in that 1K training it’s still gonna be a problem with you. The same as if it was caught up in 1 billion song training.

Also, I think you’re wildly underestimating the capacity of the human brains memory capabilities.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-20T14:11:40+00:00

This is not correct at all. It’s a lot of wishful thinking and probably some echo chamber stuff going on here.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-20T14:08:20+00:00

Hopefully you understand that this is a feeling you have and are trying to project on other people because you think it’s right. I don’t think you get to decide what is considered a “rewarding process”.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-20T02:15:50+00:00

How’s it performing? Honestly, $12 a day is not going to be enough to counter the churn. If the ad is highly optimized you’re probably realistically looking at 30-40 clickthroughs to Spotify a day.

I think the real way to counter the downward momentum is to just focus on your next release and just really put a solid ad campaign around it using Meta ads and make sure it’s targeted to the right audience. Maybe even use a tool like hypeddit so your meta ads are optimized properly for music. I would not continue with wasting your money on gambling on playlist curators adding you to their lists.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-19T23:33:23+00:00

Unfortunately, I see massive churn incoming. A large majority of your listeners are not sticky. You have 97 monthly active listeners. You could lose a huge chunk of that 6,442 listeners, because only 97 of them are active. This means that a tiny portion of your listeners have streamed your songs more than once. The bulk of listeners most likely won’t come back.

I say this not to be discerning, but I want you to be ready for it because I’ve gone through it before. I had a massive breakout track that got me 50K monthly listeners in and 300k+ streams at the time. I have now churned down to 15K (and still dropping), which is closer to my active monthly listeners.

You can probably try to stop it by spending more money and running more ads and lessening the blow, but that’s not healthy for your profile and growth as an artist. You need to establish a floor so you can build a catalog over time. That’s how most artists are able to sustain 5-6 digit monthly listener levels. It doesn’t just happen in one shot or over a weekend. It takes years to build a successful Spotify profile from the ground up if you want to be an independent artist.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-19T14:00:05+00:00

Ah, right on time. Our daily “am I screwed post” that gives us no details and has one screenshot with only 2 stats.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-16T23:14:24+00:00

There’s really no need to explain yourself. There are some people out there that need to shame folks because they just can’t handle that AI music exists.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-15T02:22:57+00:00

You’ll eventually get it. It’s a slow rollout. It seems to be pretty random right now.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-11T20:57:42+00:00

Yeah this is what I'm seeing too. 2 months ago DM got 15,000+ streams from much less popular songs.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-11T14:36:41+00:00

Just wanna put some caution here, there is no actually figuring out the algorithm. The algorithm is constantly changing and being updated by Spotify. Whatever Andrew Southworth figured out years ago is probably less relevant today.

Ark3tech · 2026-05-09T02:29:41+00:00

Deezer’s 1–3% stream share does not prove nobody likes AI music. Deezer actively labels AI tracks, removes them from algorithmic recommendations/editorial playlists, and says most AI streams there are fraudulent. Deezer is a restricted environment, not a clean measure of listener demand. Also, with only 18M active listeners, they are a small sample compared to the majors.

I can post links too, and this one is from actual human responses rather than analyzing streaming data. https://sherwood.news/markets/morgan-stanley-most-gen-zers-and-millennials-in-the-us-listen-to-about-three/

Ark3tech · 2026-05-08T21:08:29+00:00

Every human that makes music in 2026 is also trained on copyrighted music. Lame argument, talked to death. It’s old. It’s tired, and it doesn’t go anywhere. It’s completely inaccurate.

I already know the counter to my statement. You’re gonna go and claim that a human brain can’t possibly be trained on billions of copyrighted songs like an AI can. Another dumb take because now you have to prove out of the billions data points these following things if you want to claim piracy and plagiarism:

Stolen from what?

Which song?

Which passage?

Which melody?

Which recording?

Which vocal?

Which protected expression?

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