Last week, I read an MSN music list so bad, it made my eyeballs bleed. It was the 10 Metal Bands Who Split Up and Did Better. I was convinced that the article was written by an AI program and corrected by someone who was not familiar with the genre. In response, I wrote a scathing review about "Amoye Favour's" poor take on Metal.
Shockingly, I opened up the laptop this morning and this was the first story that greeted me:
Somehow "Amoye Favour" wrote another list...AND DID WORSE!
Rage Against the Machine - This is very true. The 4 members went their separate ways and did nothing memorable. The entire rest of the list is entirely wrong.
The Clash - NOT METAL! Even if the Clash was metal, which they're not, the biggest hit between the 4 members was from Mick Jones' Big Audio Dynamite II about a decade after the Clash broke up. (Listen, B.A.D. II was NOT better than the Clash, but if you don't know music and just went by singles sales, you could make an argument for Rush.)
The Beatles - Yes, the Beatles are listed in an article about Metal. ABSURD.
My Chemical Romance - NOT METAL! I am looking around the room for the hidden cameras. We are joking here...right?
The Police - NOT METAL! After every entry, I went back and looked at the title of the article. Yes, Amoye Favour is claiming the Police are Metal.
Pink Floyd - NOT METAL! What the hell are we doing here?
Bathory - Bathory were pioneers in Black Metal, that much is true. But by the band's second album, the band's only songwriter, Quorthon, had made Bathory nothing more than a glorified solo project.
Bathory "broke up" in the year 2004 when Quorthon was found dead. So, technically, the band members did do worse because of Quorthon's death, he was Bathory's only member from 1997-2004.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - NOT METAL! Play Free Bird!
<sigh>
Might as well.
Motorhead - Again, another technicality. When Lemmy Kilmister died, Motorhead died, so Lemmy Kilmister did not do better than his days in Motorhead from the grave.
Oasis - NOT METAL! NOT METAL! NOT METAL! Even the notoriously prickly Liam Gallagher would admit that Oasis isn't a Metal band.
I cannot stress how irrationally angry this list made me. So I went over to Muck Rack and lo' and behold, there is no author's photo for Amoye Favour, but a list of about 50 of the worst articles you're ever going to read, generated in a period of just over a year.
In theory, Amoye Favour is a writer for Metal Shout Magazine, so I went to their website.
You know what? I must be the stupidest guy around. I love Metal. Earlier this year, I wrote Top 100 Metal Songs of All Time, but right or wrong, good grammar or poor, what you read is what I write. As I slid down the internet rabbit hole, I found nothing but fake information.
Amoye Favour is not real. He really is an AI Generated Author.
Metal Shout Magazine is not real. It really is an AI Generated Website.
Now the unnamed editor is real, I am convinced it's one guy who is busy selling ads and making money by using AI Generated Content.
As a lark, I was going to call the contact number at Metal Shout Magazine, but I googled the number and it came up as a "reputable" dentist in Los Angeles, despite claiming to be a Delaware number.
I'm wrong and Metal Shout Magazine is real?
You should be embarrassed.
Good luck contacting me, I purposely don't read my emails.
Have your AI Program write an article about how much Beacon of Speech sucks, there's over a thousand poorly written articles to choose from.
Now if you google Amoye Favour, there appears to be a poet by that name that is very real, but not very metal. So I created an AI Generated Image for Muck Rack to steal from us to tell the difference between the two less than common names.
If I am real and get 20 readers, and Amoye Favour is fake and gets 100,000 readers, do you see how dangerous AI is using a fairly benign example?
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