On 31 July a court in Munich ruled that Suno had stored the songs it trained on. Eleven days later Spotify announced it will badge AI artist profiles and cut them from recommendations. Both are real progress. But read Spotify's own wording: the badge is about the artist's identity, not about how the music was made. A fake person gets flagged. A real person uploading a fully generated track under their own name does not. That's the gap, and neither decision closes it.

On 31 July a court in Munich ruled that Suno had stored the songs it trained on. Eleven days later Spotify announced it will badge AI artist profiles and cut them from recommendations. Both are real progress. But read Spotify's own wording: the badge is about the artist's identity, not about how the music was made. A fake person gets flagged. A real person uploading a fully generated track under their own name does not. That's the gap, and neither decision closes it.

The Human Frequency — Notes on making music by hand in the age of AI By Roger Ricks AI is not just coming for music. It is quietly taking over one corner of our lives after another, and the strangest part is how quickly we get used to it. We adjust to the polish without even noticing we are adjusting. Think about how normal those flawless, filtered faces on Instagram have become, the ones with no pores and no bad days, the ones wrapping us in a world that does not actually ex

The Human Frequency — Notes on making music by hand in the age of AI By Roger Ricks Last time I told you there was one sound in my music that could never come from a machine, something that is technically a flaw, and I promised I would show you exactly where it lives. This is me keeping that promise. My new single, "That Day," is out now, and honestly it is full of those flaws. Every single one of them is there on purpose, and I want to tell you why. The moment behind the son

The Human Frequency — Notes on making music by hand in the age of AI By Roger Ricks I want to start with a number that honestly unsettled me a little. In a survey of around nine thousand people across eight countries, ninety-seven percent of them could not reliably tell fully AI-generated music from human-made music in a blind test. Ninety-seven percent. So if you were quietly counting on your own ears to keep you safe, well, I was too, and that number put me right back in my

Where AI came from, what it's changing, and why I still play every note Let me be honest with you before I say anything critical: what these AI tools can do now is genuinely impressive. I build my own guitars in a workshop in Zurich, I play and sing and produce almost everything myself, and even I sat there the first time thinking, "okay, that's remarkable." So this isn't going to be a rant. AI is going to change how music gets made, whether I like it or not. What I want to d