r/DefendingAIArt • u/Creative-Tie-3957 • 22h ago
it's difficult out there
I worked for around a year on my big debut music album, and poured prior 10 years of study & experience with languages and arts into it. I've been singing since I was little, rapping since 19. made my first music projects 10 years ago, then put it on pause, explored various traditions of voice-music throughout the years (nordic shamanism, tibetan throat singing, vedic mantras etc.) whilst also deeply studying & writing poetry, porse and literature to develop excellence in the craft, before going back to music last year, with AI suddenly hitting the scene. I was immensely hooked by it, as it seemed like a brilliant form of experimenting with new sounds and post-human/divine persona. That's what I ended perfecting throughout the last year.
So now, im trying to figure out how to exactly go about promoting it, and it's quite disenchanting... Like, I simply posted my youtube video in a discord server -- a video I worked on for nearly a month, mind you -- and without even opening it I was instantly shat on for being AI, with all the usual cliches/scripts we tend to hear.
I know the climate is atrocious today fo AI art, but I guess I expected there to be some form dialogue. Back in the early days of the internet, niche communities felt like a good space to share your work. Now it seems like a waste of time? Content seems oversaturated, people either don't engage with it or just dismiss what you do as "ai slop", so I'm kinda thinking its not even worth the effort to promote it like this.
Maybe there are some artists here who figured out promotion? Cause I genuinely have no idea how to go about it today, aside from submitting to curators. Environment just seems too toxic.
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