AI Slop is taking over Spotify

https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/spotify-slop/

22•WXLCKNO•2h ago

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tjr•1h ago

How about vinyl? How much AI slop is being pressed onto vinyl records?

spcebar•1h ago

I would imagine not very much? The people buying vinyl are buying as a collectors item or because of its audio qualities. It's very easy to accidentally listen to something that's AI generated, you have to very actively purchase a vinyl. It also costs virtually nothing to get music on Spotify but is relatively expensive to get anything on vinyl.

rchaud•46m ago

Zero. Vinyl has costs of production, AI slop doesn't.

jsheard•1h ago

The same thing is happening on YouTube, my recs are stuffed full of obviously AI generated music compilations lately. It's obvious from the volume those channels are posting (often ~3 hours of "new" music every single day) that little to no curation is happening, it's just elemental slop straight from the firehose.

WXLCKNO•52m ago

Agreed, on YouTube the AI slop music has been trending even more. I hadn't experienced it on Spotify however and only last month they had stated that AI music would be tagged as such.

rhetocj23•1m ago

My personal consumption of YT has dropped pretty sharply - I only go on there for specific content that I personally pick out myself. The recommendations have become really bad progressively IME over the past 2 years.

rhetocj23•1h ago

Would be pretty ironic if AI destroys the value attributed to the brand name of these firms who are not policing the mounting slop.

Narciss•1h ago

I love making AI music.

Sometimes I freestyle rap over instrumentals that I’ve created with AI, record myself and then use that recording to create an AI song.

Some of the songs I really love, like this one:

https://suno.com/s/o4oyu5Eq7nMdQyzK

There’d be more to say - but of course, creating songs without regard to their quality or your input in them is slop that shouldn’t be shared.

Narciss•1h ago

Here’s another: https://suno.com/s/v3LuDD9SjVPohVB7

rhetocj23•1h ago

I listened to both and they both sounded soul-less.

brazukadev•43m ago

Lots of people love making them, almost nobody likes listen to them so you are the audience of the app you use to create it, not a creator.

rhetocj23•2m ago

And theres nothing wrong with that. The issue is people like Altman thinking creativity et al is just a formulaic mish-mash of what exists and is not as difficult. Like yeah ok mate....

rchaud•41m ago

Spotify's biggest enemy are the record labels that they have to pay license fees to. Slowly ramp up the AI slop while ramping down the label-owned material and hope subscribers don't notice. It's a play that worked for Netflix, which used to have every major show a decade ago and is now majority store-brand slop.

rchaud•39m ago

randycupertino•9m ago

I noticed music in TV shows is AI slop so they don't have to pay licensing fees lately as well. I was watching Unsolved the series about the Notorious BIG and Tupac murders a few weeks ago and in one of the club scenes a "Biggie" song that I'd never heard of was playing in the background, I wasn't familiar with that song so I googled it and it was an ai Biggie inspired recreation, not one of his actual songs.

matesz•35m ago

Tangent to this, some AI software is good for to experimentation. Here is an excellent example - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alb_ZFHVXCU

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