Ai Kills@ai_kills
Yes, we know that AI Kills music is no longer available at Bandcamp as of 1/31/2026.
As someone making music for literally *5 decades* -- I've played guitar for 40+ years (traditional, indie and most recently this AI project) I don't think my music is their intended target and possibly will appeal the decision with more fervor, but in the meantime AI Kills music is gone from Bandcamp and we'll be purging all mentions of the site from future promotion and whatever past we can.
What bothers me about this is @bandcamp redirects this traffic to their homepage instead of to any message explaining why they removed my music. Doesn't that seem a bit self-serving?
So, while they are all about not wanting to "protect artists" they appear to be doing the opposite with something very simple. People that type "buy [AI Kills music]" specific albums on Google go to the Bandcamp AI Kills page with our band name that then redirects that traffic to the Bandcamp homepage. They should have either redirected this traffic back to the artist's website or provided a temporary page until Google updates that shows people how to get to the site of the artist. Instead, they use the artist name and album artwork to redirect to themselves and other artists.
Sure, they can blame this on SEO / Google but they can easily detect where the traffic is coming to and redirect to an interim/temporary page and/or redirect to the artist website which they have -- but of course chosen not to use.
I will likely point out this missive, because this sure seems sus and counter to protecting artists. Sure, if I was just some non-human bot with "slop" as we're all being broadly force fed, but I've been around longer on the internet creating stuff than Bandcamp has existed. See screenshots.
They are bound to ensnare others with my creative experience and that's not a good look at all. And if you're going to come back in the comments and say "you've only had this account for X amount of time" go look at my other Twitter accounts @todd_russell and @TDavid -- one of them predates the existence of Bandcamp. And I have accounts elsewhere much older than that. I was judging writing contests in the keyword: novel area in the 90s.
