[HN Gopher] AI Slop is taking over Spotify
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       AI Slop is taking over Spotify
        
       Author : WXLCKNO
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2025-10-20 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | tjr wrote:
       | How about vinyl? How much AI slop is being pressed onto vinyl
       | records?
        
         | spcebar wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
         | Zero. Vinyl has costs of production, AI slop doesn't.
        
       | jsheard wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | 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 wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
       | 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:
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       | https://suno.com/s/o4oyu5Eq7nMdQyzK
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       | 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 wrote:
         | Here's another: https://suno.com/s/v3LuDD9SjVPohVB7
        
           | rhetocj23 wrote:
           | I listened to both and they both sounded soul-less.
        
         | brazukadev wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | 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 wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
       | 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 mass-produced Netflix
       | Original slop.
        
         | randycupertino wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
       | 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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