Reviews reporting thread

pauldunhill wrote: https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3209292 This appears to be a review of a totally different album/band?! The comments make no sense for an lp recorded in 1970, plus the reviewer refers to a track titled “I found a dream” which doesn’t appear on this record?!

I can safely bet that it's a LLM-generated review posted by an automated bot. Hence, it looks as if that blob of text was generated using an unspecified generic vanilla prompt.

Edited by Hrychu - August 09 2025 at 02:18

https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3210055

A disgrace. It would still be a disgrace even if Dave hadn't passed away, but it is doubly so. Could someone remove this and warn the perpetrator, please?

"This album simply doesn't merit more effort in reviewing it" is quite damning. Why bother writing something that does not have any merit ? At the psychiatrist office, we call this an own goal. Chalk one up for the bad guys

Like it or not, A.I. artwork is a novelty that is in vogue and so many artists are using it.

That said, I think reviewers should tend to the music rather than the album cover.   I have not listened to this album. But now I will.

A reviewer called one of my album covers “totally ficticious”…. Well Duh!

Save the one stars and venom for cats who fart into the microphone and stuff. Nova Cascade is a well respected project as far as I know. But Avaticron is probably right, removing reviews is not a good call.

Edited by Valdez - 18 hours 12 minutes ago at 23:47

I don't think this rises to the level of needing removing.

Hrychu wrote: Like it or not, A.I. artwork is a novelty that is in vogue and so many artists are using it. That doesn't make AI slop immune to being openly disliked by the audience and critics alike. That said, I think reviewers should tend to the music rather than the album cover. Your statement reinforces this rude trend of not giving a flying fuсk about visual artists because 'mUsIc iS tHe mAiN fOcUs'. The approach you've just showed is exactly what pushes bands and musicians to use AI slop for their album covers instead of collaborating with actual visual artists.

Yes… exactly. I couldn’t give a ‘flying f**k’ about a poor album cover, if I like the music.

I don’t care if a musician uses A.I. for their album cover either. I do care if they use A.I. for the music, because, simply put, The Music does not belong to them.

There are plenty of sites devoted to the visual arts.



Edited by Valdez - 10 hours 41 minutes ago at 07:18

Valdez wrote: Yes… exactly. I couldn’t give a ‘flying f⚠k’ about a poor album cover, if I like the music.

Sadly, that's the only thing we, the critics, can do right now. However, I think it's worth encouraging bands to give a bit more spotlight for visual artists from time to time.

Edited by Hrychu - 10 hours 31 minutes ago at 07:28