According to sources close to absolutely nobody, AC/DC’s management recently attempted to upload the band’s complete discography to Bandcamp—only to have the entire submission instantly rejected for allegedly being “wholly or substantially generated by artificial intelligence.”
The trouble reportedly began when Bandcamp’s new AI-detection system flagged High Voltage within seconds, citing “statistically improbable uniformity across tempo, riff structure, song titles, and lyrical themes.” The system then auto-scanned the rest of the catalog and reached what it described as an “inescapable conclusion.”
“At first we thought it was one album uploaded multiple times,” a Bandcamp moderator allegedly explained. “But then we realized it was actually fifty years of music.”
The rejection notice, viewed by this publication in a vision brought on by loud amplifiers, stated:
‘This release demonstrates extreme stylistic repetition consistent with machine learning models trained on a single guitar riff and one emotional state.’
The algorithm reportedly highlighted several red flags:
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Songs averaging exactly “fast enough to drink beer to”
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Guitar solos that appear to be generated by pressing “Pentatonic Mode: ON”
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Lyrics composed exclusively of words like rock, roll, night, hell, fire, and woman
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Vocal delivery described as “angry gravel preset v3.1”
Bandcamp’s system was especially suspicious of Back in Black, noting that it sounded “nearly indistinguishable from Highway to Hell, For Those About to Rock, Let There Be Rock, and several other files with different cover art but identical vibes.”
Management appealed the decision, insisting the music was created by real humans—specifically Angus Young, repeatedly, since 1973. The appeal was denied.
“We respect legacy artists,” the platform responded, “but we cannot allow content that appears to be generated by a single loop running for half a century.”
The situation escalated when Bandcamp moderators asked whether the band had used “prompt-based composition,” pointing out that every song could plausibly be generated by typing ‘write a hard rock anthem in the style of AC/DC’ and pressing enter.
Sources say the final blow came when the system flagged Thunderstruck for “sounding like the AI discovered arpeggios and got too excited.”
In a brief statement, AC/DC’s camp responded:
“We are deeply offended by the suggestion that our music was created by a machine. A machine would have evolved by now.”
Meanwhile, Bandcamp reaffirmed its position, stating that while it supports human creativity, it must also protect users from “synthetic content, recursive riff engines, and suspiciously immortal blues-rock patterns.”
At press time, AC/DC was reportedly considering re-uploading their catalog under fifty different band names, each claiming to be “influenced by AC/DC,” which Bandcamp has confirmed is still perfectly acceptable.
