It's not about the quality, it's about the lack of real human intent underlying it and the fact that AI inevitably regresses to the mean. AI will never(or at least not anytime soon) replicate that, it'll always be fast junk food for our brains.

Spotify will generate the music with AI, slowly sunset human create music in the catalog, and keep all of the subscription rev for themselves with no need to pay humans for the music.

> I wonder how Spotify will handle this spam of AI slop

I'm sure they're hoping that it becomes so normalized that they'll never have to pay an artist again.

It is fair to say that McDonalds is a very literal form of slop, yet I enjoy it. That said, I despise AI music, and at least McDonalds doesn’t literally steal food from better restaurants, whereas AI music companies are just indefensible thieves[1]. And I suspect consuming an AI-generated song is considerably unhealthier than consuming a Big Mac, which at least has some protein.

[1] LLMs and art generators don’t understand text or images but the illusion is quite robust. The thing that grinds my gears about AI music is the AI inevitably “tips its hand” and reveals it doesn’t understand melody or rhythm in the slightest. An AI music “hallucination” isn’t a weird face in the background or a fictional citation, it is the AI briefly having the musical sensibility of a baby on a toy piano.