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\n\tLucas Woodland, frontman of the Welsh post-hardcore band Holding Absence<\/a>, recently made a disturbing discovery on Spotify<\/a>: an AI<\/a>-generated act that cites his band as an influence has more monthly listeners than their human inspiration. Holding Absence has been around for a decade; the AI \u201cband,\u201d Bleeding Verse<\/a>, only launched on Spotify in late July. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking, it\u2019s disheartening, it\u2019s insulting,\u201d Woodland wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cMost importantly \u2013 it\u2019s a wake up call. Oppose AI music<\/a>, or bands like us stop existing.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBleeding Verse, which says in its Spotify bio that it uses \u201chuman lyrics, turned into songs with AI\u201d has accumulated 897,349 monthly listeners in just two months. Holding Absence, four actual humans who have been touring the world and releasing music since 2015 (though its current incarnation with Woodland didn\u2019t begin until the following year), currently have 847,638 monthly listeners. <\/p>\n