Nameless customers on Soulseek are trolling the platform by importing 1000’s of Homer Simpson AI covers.
The peer-to-peer file-sharing community is a favorite of DJs and music followers wanting to find lesser-known tracks.
Nonetheless, it’s now been taken over by Simpson “covers”. An investigation from Vice discovered that there are at present round 2,000 of the AI-generated variations on the platform.
All of those variations listing the unique monitor title and artist credit score, whereas retaining all different information unchanged, so customers are unaware they’ve downloaded the Simpson cowl till they press play.
Vice additionally factors out that there’s now a 24-hour radio station, ‘D’OH FM’, which completely options Homer Simpson covers.
The station, which claims to be powered by Duff Beer and broadcasting reside from Springfield, additionally helps you to request songs for Homer to carry out.
AI Homer Simpson covers are nothing new, with a model of Underworld’s ‘Born Slippy’ already well-known on some corners of the web.
In 2024, a canopy of Hozier‘s ‘Take Me To Church’ went viral, main the musician to share his opinions on AI-generated music. “I feel that stuff is the extra form of foolish, innocent stuff,” he stated.
“It’s kinda bizarre, yeah. I feel it’s simply enjoyable,” he continued. “I feel it’s simply individuals taking part in with the know-how for stuff like that. The extra complicated, long-term stuff of AI when music catalogues are being skilled for generative stuff is the place we’re within the larger questions…”
Earlier than that, The Libertines reacted to a Homer Simpson AI cowl of their music ‘Don’t Look Again Into The Solar’. There are additionally Homer Simpson AI covers of the Arctic Monkeys, Limp Bizkit, Muse and extra.
In different AI-related information, Google has given its digital assistant Gemini the power to create AI-generated music.
