Metal Anarchy

TuneCore apparently tried to label Zao’s new music as generative AI. It’s unclear why the band were flagged, but the issue has since been resolved.

Zao previously said the following:

“We were accused by TuneCore of using generative AI. So here is a shot of the DAW and our ‘dirty mid-fi’ (patent pending) tracking. You will notice not only do we not even quantize stuff, or mute breaths, we also track drums and cymbals separately so we can do what needs to be done with the drums (but not edit, there are mistakes all over the place). There isn’t even technically a click track or drum samples on this. If we were using AI it did its job poorly. Everything aside from drums and vocals is through a jellybean line six pod. There is even a clip warning on a track. this would be the worst AI ever.”

They continued:

“This is a case of probably a vinyl-only release since we have been using them (very well, we will add) as a digital distributor for over a decade. Blindsided by this. And can’t get a ‘person’ to explain why we were accused of using ‘generative AI.’”

They later added:

“After blowing them up, all of a sudden they ‘fixed’ it and we are apparently back on track. We will see on June 26th.”