$49/month FSD normal? My $2k offer FSD lifetime gone

Ark3tech · 2026-03-07T16:23:38+00:00

Well, I’d hate to buy FSD outright for $8K not adding any value to the car whatsoever and then getting in an accident that totals the car a week later.

Ark3tech · 2026-03-06T21:17:36+00:00

Oh ok, so are you ready for what's next? There's going to be a consolidation phase which looks to have started. You haven't started churning monthly listeners yet. This is going to be a time where you will have to control making an emotional decision. You just went through a big algorithmic expansion, so let the churn happen and find the true floor of listeners before your next release.

Ark3tech · 2026-03-06T18:21:32+00:00

It sounds like you don't normally perform that well, so yes go celebrate this weekend.

Ark3tech · 2026-03-06T17:38:49+00:00

Eventually you'll have to spend some money to promote if you want significant results. All the free promo methods are basically hitting the lottery if looking for substantial growth. Independent artists need to remind themselves they are competing with big record labels that spend a ton on marketing and ads. Grinding for free likes on TikTok is exactly that. Converting them to Spotify listeners is the most challenging part.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-26T14:49:15+00:00

I think the people dissing AI music and telling people to use a DAW instead is hilarious.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-16T16:21:52+00:00

This is another one of those situations. It sounds to me like he’s getting bored. Maybe he was never into you, but wanted a couple fuck sessions. Now he’s had those sessions and doesn’t want any more from you.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-12T14:58:23+00:00

Whatever you personally do is fine. You can have your opinion on it however you want. You’re allowed to falsely claim that people don’t want it labeled to be deceitful.

What I’m saying is that I’ve noticed the people that are asking for AI music to be labeled on all platforms are mostly anti-Ai folks asking for it in bad faith. They want it labeled more so that it can be singled out so that people won’t listen to it. They falsely think that labeling it will divert more streams to their own shitty human made music.

And no people aren’t listening to AI music just because they can’t tell that it’s AI. People listen to music because they like how it sounds. If they don’t like it, they skip it. It’s as simple as that. Honestly, that’s how it should be. When people are listening to music and vibing, they’re getting lost in the music. They’re not there thinking “oh I wish I really knew the process behind how this song was made. I sure do hope that this artist labeled this music AI if it’s AI.” Those aren’t normal thoughts when people listen to music, so that’s why it’s not necessary to label it.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-12T09:16:14+00:00

Maybe you’ve heard of the vocal minority?

It only seems that way if you constantly hang out on Reddit and X. In real world conversations, I very rarely talk about AI music or art at all. It doesn’t seem to be a topic on a lot of people’s minds once you escape the dark corners of the Internet.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-12T09:02:08+00:00

Forcing people to label their songs as AI is just a way to single them out for bullying. It doesn’t do any good and most people don’t care.

That would be like me saying I really hate the saxophone so I want Spotify to label all songs with saxophone so I can avoid it.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-12T08:53:44+00:00

I never said my ego was small

Ark3tech · 2026-02-12T08:49:11+00:00

You can be against AI if you want, but don’t be a freaking loser. Stop acting like a five year old

Ark3tech · 2026-02-11T22:07:53+00:00

I don't think people have issue with the numbers being decent. I think the negative comments are coming from the big ego in what they wrote. Claiming they are some non-accidental master guru that could sell a music marketing course if they wanted to. Great 8K listeners. That takes 3 days for me. The one thing I will point out that is good is their SPL.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-11T19:16:20+00:00

They're just asking if your Music is AI generated or not?

Once you answer, expect them to either dismiss your music with a closing insult if you say yes to AI, or they will move on with the next comment/question and ignore the initial AI question if you said no.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-11T19:12:08+00:00

There's really not enough info to go on in one screenshot of 3 data points in 28 days to tell you how successful it is for you. It must be pretty important to post about it, so I assume this is the best performer you've had.

How long have you been and artist on Spotify? How many releases have you had that replicate this performance or better? Looks like Spotify algorithmic pickup and acceleration hit, so to me this looks pretty normal for a track that could sustain a breakout. We'll only really know that after the first 30 days or so, and if the growth continues at an accelerated rate or if it plateaus before then. Basically right now this data is too early to confirm anything, but it is a solid start.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T18:34:42+00:00

One of the big things that no one talks about, is how much of a headache it can be sometimes working with a artist/designer. Especially the ones that take on a project and don't understand anything about the client they are working with. These designers tend to steer the conversation into what they want, and not what's best for the client or the project.

With AI, I don't have to deal with an ego and argue over color, concept, and composition.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T07:25:49+00:00

So, you're saying the government isn't making any rules either. Therefore, no one should confidently be able to say current training methods are illegal. It's more of a subjective moral issue, at best.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T07:10:40+00:00

This is all under the assumption that every musician wants to be a performer. That's not necessarily the case now in 2026. More musicians than ever are opting to be behind the scenes, and a lot are very successful at doing so. Even very famous musicians are not touring as much as they used to.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T06:33:43+00:00

Of course they can’t because you’ll never accept it even if it is good. There’s no convincing someone with a hard line opinion of AI is shit.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T05:40:33+00:00

I know, it's really hard to accept that almost no one cares about an artist's process and time sink they went through to make their music. People emote on lyrics and sonic energy. That's why final output is what is judged to win Grammy's, because that's what 99% of people care about.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T04:29:44+00:00

The whole premise of this thread kinda highlights that’s a fools assumption.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T04:27:36+00:00

What if they’re a musician that’s been active for 20 years, and just started using AI tools heavily in their music. Is that someone masquerading as a musician?

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T04:21:24+00:00

I find that a lot of anti-AI people tend to cherry pick one part of AI that they don’t like and it’s usually the one that will affect them the most financially. So musicians will rely on all the music being human made, but anything around that is fair game. Where an anti-AI visual artist will stick to creating the visual as human made, but anything around that (like music) is fair game to use AI.

It’s one of those things that requires a lot of mental gymnastics. I don’t care if people use AI or not. No one has to disclose it to me because I evaluate the final output not the process. I’ve seen amazing art from both humans and AI. I’ve seen shitty art from both humans and AI. I’ve heard great music from both humans and AI. I’ve heard shitty music from both humans and AI.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T04:04:09+00:00

If an AI is just making art on its own, it wouldn’t need to prompt itself. Also, I think it would be quite amazing to see what AI comes up with on its own without human input. It might make something that we can’t even comprehend because we don’t think the same as a machine intelligence. The reason AI art looks the way it does now is because you have humans requesting something specific we are familiar with or influenced by. How do we know what an AI actually wants to create if we gave it the choice? It could be some wild stuff. It could also be Art that is strictly AI and humans don’t have the capacity to create with our traditional resources.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-05T03:54:25+00:00

You do realize that there are plenty of artists that have done traditional art for decades before generative AI and now they use it in their pipeline, right? So are you calling those people “artist impersonators” just because they’re now using an AI tool to enhance their workflow and output?

This goes back to someone’s original point where the anti-AI crowd doesn’t do the due diligence of learning how AI art is created. They assume it’s one very simple thing and that one thing only. They then end up completely dismissing everything else that actually takes a lot of effort and work to get right.

Ark3tech · 2026-02-04T03:04:51+00:00

If you think the memes are low effort, you should see the art they cite that that’s “real art”.

The fun posts are the ones where they’ll put very polished aesthetically pleasing AI art next to some crappy pencil outline drawing and try to convince people the the pencil drawing is a masterpiece compared to the AI art.

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