My guess is that Bandcamp doesn't want to be cloud storage for Suno slop in the way that almost every other digital music service has. As Brad points out, Bandcamp has no algorithm to exploit. The people generating slop albums are doing it to stuff Spotify playlists but they're probably also uploading it to Bandcamp because why not.
A lot of fun bad-faith arguments are being made in the comments ("what if I use AI to create the chord progression but then PLAY it on my guitar? Checkmate, Luddites!") but I agree with the commenters that say the issue is authorship. You're still playing the guitar, you're still making editorial choices. That's different from telling Suno to "write a sea shanty about pirates" twelve times and uploading that as your own work.
Analogies to drum machines or MIDI files or whatever fail when applied to AI because AI is a completely new thing. We've never had computer programs that can spit out a full song complete with lyrics in any genre. Used this way there's no authorship, just output. I've written before, AI has never experienced heartbreak, or joy, or love, so all it can do is compute what a song about those feelings would sound like. That's not how human creativity works at all.
I don't know how Bandcamp will enforce this. Albums that are nothing but slop are sometimes recognizable as such, but I'm wondering if they've opened a can of worms by asking people to report suspected AI-generated music. Some innocent artists are probably gonna get dogpiled.
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