// A MESSAGE FROM DECODED'S FOUNDER
The mechanisms used to determine what is “AI-created” are flawed at best. Anyone who picks up an electronic instrument now risks their hard-earned reputation, their career, and their life’s purpose — and the irony is brutal: the algorithm passing that judgment was written and dispensed by the very same industry giants that independent musicians went independent to escape.
We at DECODED.music say: Hell no. We are built from the same heartbeat that runs through every one of you — a radio signal that borrows our flesh as the lucky vessel afforded the luxury of broadcasting the frequency.
We understand the vulnerability being exploited by the very machine that claims to be protecting us from it. We protect the integrity they are trying to privatize. We defend the artistic expression they are trying to lock behind another paywall. We actually verify the human art they are trying to scrub out of the artist. We will not be silenced — and neither should you.
So I ask you this: do you honestly believe that every mainstream musician in today’s opportunistic landscape plays only classic instruments — an elite-trained virtuoso by day, a computer-science guru by night — with no auto-tune, no AI-assisted algorithm, no electronic drum machines, no drum pads, no three-key preset keyboards, and no other un-credited algorithmic assistance? Surely Post Malone’s own music never comes under question.
But you — the independent musician — are the one thrown into trench warfare, fighting for the most indispensable and vital part of your existence: the paradigm of your vitality that delivers your breath purpose. And you are the villain.
FUCK THAT! Yeah, we said it.
— Kenny
