[ExI] Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Music Fails

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Cc: BillK <pharos at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Music Fails

 

On Fri, 26 Sept 2025 at 20:08, BillK <pharos at gmail.com <mailto:pharos at gmail.com> > wrote:

Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face
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They say that AI is not supposed to be able to produce music that
people like, because AI doesn't have emotions or understand human
experiences.

Really?
So I asked Gemini AI to research this.
The research report astounded me with its understanding of the problem.
I'll put the report in a follow-up post.
BillK

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BillK, I will offer this view.  My father in law loves instrumental music, particularly saxophone (he and I are both sax players.)  He was going around on Spotify and heard a sound he really liked, so he called and asked if we can find him a CD of that.  (CD?  Why?)

 

So we went about looking and discovered the players had no website and no traceability.  About that time I realized the music was synthesized.  OK, so no actual saxophones were harmed in recording that music.  But it was an extremely good synthesis.  Whoever did that knew what he was doing.

 

Upon further listening, I realized the tunes themselves were very likely computer generated.  I cannot prove that, but there were indications of it: I had never heard those particular tunes, but plenty a lot like them.  

 

Not sure what to tell FIL, but I won’t lie to him.  There are not three young female sax players, there weren’t any.  And there mighta not been any human composer.

 

We showed him how we know.  I would’ta cared, but he didn’t want “artificial music.”  Told us to forget the whole thing.  It is still good stuff.  I didn’t keep the link but I might try to find it again.

 

That was a milestone which came quickly.  I remember debating AI music composition very recently, I think the past two or three years.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Paradox of AI 'Slop' Music: A Disruption Analysis of Art, Economics, and Authenticity

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