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.
Basically, what we’re seeing is the personalization of media.
Early Udio generated songs when run through a stem splitter were horrible to listen to and you could hear how it was just generating the frequencies with none of the texture—like a simulation of the frequencies an instrument would produce.
At the very least they should be re-recorded with real instruments and vocals or using the existing digital tools. Slop is one word; I like to use mush, as that is what it sounds like when you really listen closely.
Spotify's biggest enemy is Spotify. Apple Music doesn't have this problem.
The Beavis & Butthead and Daria shows in the '90s also used a lot of licensed music. When the DVD versions arrived in the mid-2000s, the music was removed and replaced by stock instrumentals; I'm not sure the torrents of the original versions are even being seeded anymore.
Many Apple Original, Amazon Original, Comcast Original, Disney Original, Skydance Original, Sony Original, are also “slop”.
However, it is also a fact that the vast majority of people can't care less to listen to their friends' and family's Sunos, as they were not involved in the process and therefore can't vibe to the random soul-less soup.
Please keep your slop for yourself.
Like “40’s gangster jazz”, or “studying in the Hogwarts library”, etc
It’s the majority of what I listen to lately and it’s been pretty good.
On a related note, I was working with someone recently and he put on a jazz playlist he found on YouTube. We both enjoyed the music and neither of us realized it was AI until about halfway through the playlist.
I don’t think it’s a big deal that it’s AI, as long as you enjoy the music.
But on Spotify when it gets shoved onto your playlists without warning..
On a related note, my vinyl collection is looking more and more prescient over time.
If streaming gets sufficiently bad, I’ll just spend the subscription fee on newly released records, and artists will get a lot more than they do now.
Vote with your wallet.
Finamp and jellyfin, the PWA is also solid.
I don't know what service is safe, but it seems like the incentives for the companies is not to direct me to what I want, real people performing music.
I think I’ve heard one AI slop thing in my daily discovery queue, once.
It’s hard to say if that one track was ai slop or not, given my tastes (I downloaded Poppy, Music to Scream To, for example).
https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Music/comments/1m522g2/is_this_a...
I still haven't figured out if it's AI or not but there is no info about the band online, touring show details, photos etc, so I am leaning towards it is a fake AI band.
It would be nice if AI-music was watermarked in some way so we could filter it out.
For audible (for now, until Audible kills it!) there is a chrome and firefox extension called "devirtualizer" that removes all AI-narrated books from your results: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/devirtualizeaudible...
https://en.deezercommunity.com/product-updates/deezer-just-r...
What I do is pick one or two dozen records at the beginning of the year and limit myself to them, listen actively instead of just putting it on, don't just treat it like noise. Don't need to bother with any subscription service or AI bs. Even before the AI slop if you looked at the numbers, random influencer crap was much more heavily promoted than some of the greatest music in human history, there's such a recency bias in the entire streaming industry.
