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Resist the New Autotune

Using AI to make music flattens the form entirely.
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

I was recently speaking with a group of fellow musicians about AI-generated music appearing on Spotify. I argued that such music, not “AI-enhanced” or “AI-assisted” music, but music created start-to-finish with a prompt (or a few) fed to an app like Suno, should be against the terms of service of a platform like Spotify.

Noah Hickey is the visuals editor at The Dispatch, based in Tampa, Florida. Prior to joining the company in 2024, he interned at The Dispatch, worked as a musician, and attended Polk State College in Lakeland, Florida. When Noah is not curating photographs and creating illustrations to accompany Dispatch work, he is probably playing slide on his American Ultra Luxe Telecaster and writing music for his band Foxhall.

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