Bandcamp and the anti-AI movement

I read the other day that Bandcamp is banning AI music from their platform. Regardless of what ‘AI music’ means, I think what we’re seeing is a positive step in ‘pro-human’ media.

There was a Christmas advert airing in December for Coke - I think - that featured a lot of AI animals, and you can really tell. They didn’t look bad per se, but they have an AI smell about them, and that’s bad. I saw a breakdown of the Coke truck’s wheels, how many there were and where they were. If you’ll pardon the expression, it was pretty sloppy stuff.

Of all the young people that I know, both of them are staunchly anti-AI. In fact, I think the only people I hear regularly who are pro-AI seem to be doctors, CEOs or grifters, and I’m not sure the CEOs really know what it means.

It’s clear this generative uncanny valley stuff isn’t the one, and the same goes for LLMs that use gallons of water to hallucinate incorrect answers and agree with you all the time. I heard one podcaster say “if this were any good, they wouldn’t have to push it so hard.” Every time we see Lewis Capaldi schilling for Google’s Gemini we roll our eyes and scoff.

I made a prediction at the end of 2025 that this year, 2026, we’ll be seeing more companies and creators big and small, announcing that they didn’t use AI in the making of their content. I think we’ll see Movies, TV shows, even Tiktoks advertising as ‘human-made’ or ‘anti-ai’. This has started with Bandcamp and music, but I think it’ll be other platforms and social media too.

For what it’s worth, I don’t use AI to write these articles, I make them bad all by myself.