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The original was posted on /r/citypop by /u/Nav_Panel on 2025-01-02 20:30:32+00:00.
Hey folks! Happy New Year!
We've been a community for 10 years at this point, and it's been amazing seeing it grow. My heartfelt thanks to everyone for the contributions; I've discovered so much great music over the years.
As for the announcement: as the years pass, our world continues to grow and change, and one of the big changes over this last year has been technological, specifically the growth in AI tools. AI tools for music creation are very cool, but as a historical and regional music community (City Pop, is, after all, from the 1980s in Japan) it presents us with a conundrum. How should we deal with it, given that folks on the sub seem generally OK with contemporary music in the classic style?
The community consensus seems to be that we should ban AI-generated music, especially since it's a prime vector for spam. I want to throw in my support to this consensus (as is my role as janitor), and with that, I will be taking the heretofore unforeseen action of adding another subreddit rule, or really extending the existing rule, which will be put on the sidebar shortly:
Please do not share illegal download links or AI generated music on the subreddit. Thanks!
Given that I'm the only moderator on the subreddit, I need your help: if you see something, say something. Flag the post and I'll get to it within a few hours in most cases. I review every flagged item every day, so if we work together we can keep this subreddit a clean and fun place to share the music we all love.
Here's to a SMOOTH 2025!