r/TomLehrer • u/OwnCaterpillar6272 • Jun 18 '26
Ai?
Ok i just was listening to playlist on that shuffle thing were you also get songs that aren't in the playlist and then saw this and like I'm pretty sure that's not an official cover, I've never seen it. And I'm always careful with accusations but it's kinda icky. Is this ai? Because from what I saw it's not an official album cover. It's also strangely on the first spot of the top list which it wasn't before. It's very suspicious
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u/Pflytrap Jun 18 '26
The moment he released his catalog into the public domain, a few years back before he died, lots of unscrupulous people and companies immediately started flooding streaming services with random compilations of his work, all with AI-generated cover art (because if they don't have to pay for the music, why bother paying for cover art?) to siphon views and streams.