I Figured Out How to Find Real Music Channels on YouTube Amid the AI Slop

**TL;DR:** I Figured Out How to Find Real Music Channels on YouTube Amid the AI Slop

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Much of my day is spent sitting at a computer writing, and in recent years I've most often accompanied this by long (or live) YouTube videos that offer background sound without being too distracting. There are all kinds of options: scenic railway journeys , TV show tunes , piano instrumentals of songs I like, the sounds of forest rain , movie soundtracks , walks across game worlds , and more. In recent months though, AI-generated mixes with AI-generated thumbnails have become much more prevalent.

Run a quick search for study and chill-out music and you'll find plenty of videos where the artwork looks suspiciously like something ChatGPT would make and the audio track is what you'd expect to get out of an app such as Suno . It's harder than ever to spot AI-made content , especially when it comes to simpler, more minimal creations—like illustration-style images or lo-fi chill-out music.

I don't want to listen to AI music, so at the start of each day I'm now clicking around warily on YouTube trying to find something that has been composed and packaged by actual people. It's not easy anymore, but it's still possible. The problems with AI music AI content strikes again Credit: Life

Source: Lifehacker

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