showerst 13 hours ago

I like to work to music, but find anything with words distracting. So I listen to a lot of random youtube playlists of lo-fi/chillout stuff, which has just been swamped with AI lately.

I don't think this will be a big deal in a few years once it's as good as human musicians, but right now it's super annoying because the music is always subpar and it's hard to separate out the genai on youtube.

cornhole 14 hours ago

I’ve been unironically listening to covers done by AI Plankton. His voice works surprisingly well

Group_B 13 hours ago

Not too surprising that this is finally happening. It’s going to become more and more difficult to filter through all this AI music slop. But can it even be described as slop if me or someone else genuinely enjoys listening to it?

Is the end goal to just pump as much AI music as possible and watch as all the ad money comes in? I wonder how Spotify will handle this spam of AI slop as it becomes more prevalent.

  • toomuchtodo 12 hours ago

    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.

    • hooverd 11 hours ago

      I should stop paying for Spotify. I'd like my artists to get paid.

      • _aavaa_ 10 hours ago

        You should not use any streaming service and buy the albums then.

      • FireBeyond 7 hours ago

        If nothing else, switch to Tidal, who 1) pay 3x more per stream to the artist than Spotify, and 2) also has a much more egalitarian algorithm that doesn't funnel most of the money to the big names (in terms of how they "cut the cake", their payout thresholds basically steal revenue from smaller artists to give to bigger ones).

  • add-sub-mul-div 10 hours ago

    > 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.