u/mybasementsongs

What would everyone think of these potential changes?

When I implemented the Hybrid Rules, the goal was simply to champion AI as a tool, not a replacement for Human authorship, intent and creativity in an online space increasingly flooded by fully automated, low effort content.

Since their implementation, we've grown the weekly engagement of the sub by 72%

Which, I think adds weight to the idea that people are hungering for more than the novelty of a new tool.

In order to help raise the bar on this concept here are a few ideas for rule changes

1. Mandatory Title Formatting

Proposed Format: [Genre] Song title and/or brief description of the song/vibe

It helps listeners immediately find the styles they enjoy and keeps the feed looking clean and organized.

2. "Behind the song" Body Requirement.

No more blank text boxes with just a URL. If you post a track, you must include a short paragraph in the body explaining:

- The How: Briefly describe your process to create the song

-The Why: Why did you make the song? What does it mean to you as the creator? Is there a story behind it etc?

If you don't care enough about your song to write at least a few sentences about it's creation, we can't expect the community to care enough to listen.

3. The 24 hour Engagement Rule (Good Faith Interaction)

- The Rule: If a member leaves a good faith compliment, question or critique on your song, you will be required to reply to them within 24 hours. Failure to engage with your own audience will result in the post being removed.

-Why: Community is a two way street. If ya want people to invest their limited time on this space rock, listening to and commenting on your work, you need to be willing to invest the time to at least respond to them.

-This will need to be community policed at some level, if you comment in good faith on a post and they don't reply, report the post to the mod team and it will be removed.

TO BE CLEAR: BAD FAITH TROLLING OR INSULTS OR "AUNTIE" Comments can be ignored and wont be count against you. I'm not expecting you to respond to "SLOP!" "SOUL LESS!" "GET A LIFE" trolls.

Let me do that for you if you want 😄 it's my pleasure!

What do you guys think?

EDIT: SO FAR FROM THE FEEDBACK

24 hours to reply to a comment seems to be seen as too tight. 72 hours seems to be suggested a few times.

This is an intensely personal song, Written in a very despairing time. If you are an "Auntie" here to throw mud and want to try and hurt my feelings (good luck), this is the song to do it on.

I wrote this song shortly after turning 22 nearly two decades ago.

This song is in my top 3 favorites that I ever wrote.

Unfortunately I never made it a "proper" (by my basement standards) demo so had to use the only version I had which was not meant to be official demo.

I did leave a vocal easter egg in the new mix though and Suno couldn't have done a better job Rotoscoping my guitar playing and vocal delivery.

By far, of all my songs, this is the one I played to myself the most.

Penny for ye thoughts?

"My love is gone", written and composed at the age of 22, nearly two decades ago. Realized faithfully to the original concept using my demo from the time and modern tools like SUNO.

MBSR: This project is a "Wedding" between personal history and generative realization. Vocals/Performance: Realized via high-fidelity AI models. Composition/Lyrics: 100% Human

For thousands of years, music was a lived experience. Then, in the mid-1920s, it became an object.

In this video, we explore the forgotten history of the American Federation of Musicians’ (AFM) campaign against "Canned Music." From the "Robot" propaganda ads of 1930 to the total recording strike of 1942, musicians once waged a full-scale culture war against the very technology we now take for granted: the recording.

As we face the rise of generative AI, the arguments of the past, that machine-made art is "soulless," "artificial," and "fake",are returning with a vengeance. By looking back at how the world reacted to the first "recorded" sounds, we might find a path forward that preserves the most valuable part of art: human presence.

I worked really hard to put this together, took about 20-24 hours of my time to Research, Cross Reference, Think of Assets, Generate Assets, Refine Generations, edit it all together in Adobe and about 50 dollars in credits spread across gemini, OpenArt, Suno, EllevenLabs

Our sub has grown from 1.8k weekly visitors to 3k weekly visitors, a 66% increase, since we rebranded the sub with a HYBRID emphasis a month or so ago!

Hopefully we can keep building on this momentum!

Thank you to all the good faith participants and heck, even some of you "Aunties" for helping us build a community of AI music that puts the focus on the Human inputs!

I have read the rules, Mr Mod.

For what it's worth I'll submit a song

This is "Lazy wee". Written the summer I was 19 year old, decades ago. About those nocturnal teenage summer nights, hanging out, jamming, doing nothing productive.

The original demo was recorded in my Mom's living room one night she was out of town and I had my buddy bring his recording stuff over and we knocked this out in 1 take. My buddy is on that Soloing guitar while my rhythm guitar drives the music. He sang back up with me on the second chorus and we had a 3rd friend come over and add his to the final chorus too.

With Suno I added, bass, djembe, keyboard, and a better lead singer, although in the second chorus my original lead vocals, empowered by my friends seems to outshine suno's vocalist.

Penny for ye thoughts.

I didn't see any clarification in the rules.

I'd obviously expect that you wouldn't want purely prompted songs posted here. Understandable.

But what about when it's Hybrid? what If the original demo is still in the Suno Mix?

Any clarification on what is allowed and what is not would be appreciated.