14 January 2026
Very popular American online music platform BANDCAMP
founded in 2008, is determined to ban all AI-fabricated music.
For months, they chase those kinds of songs. At one point, the
estimation was that more than 50.000 AI-produced tracks had
been posted.
The organisation shared this message to motivate their
decision. (I wonder how you recognise AI music).
“Bandcamp’s mission is to help spread the healing power of music
by building a community where artists thrive through the direct
support of their fans.
We believe that the human connection found through music is a vital part of our society and culture, and that music is much more than a product to be consumed. It’s the result of a human cultural dialog stretching back before the written word.
Similarly, musicians are more than mere producers of sound. They are vital members of our communities, our culture, and our social fabric. Bandcamp was built to directly connect artists and their fans, and to make it easy for fans to support artists equitably so that they can keep making music.
Today we are fortifying our mission by articulating our policy on generative AI, so that musicians can keep making music, and so that fans have confidence that the music they
find on Bandcamp was created by humans.
Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:
Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI
is not permitted on Bandcamp. Any use of AI tools to impersonate other
artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies
prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.
If you encounter music or audio that appears to be made entirely or with heavy
reliance on generative AI, please use our reporting tools to flag the content for
review by our team. We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of
being AI-generated.
With this policy, we’re putting human creativity first, and we will be sure to
communicate any updates to the policy as the rapidly changing generative
AI space.