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Spotify CEO defends AI music, wants you to stop calling it 'slop'

Posted by bundie |an hour ago |7 comments

jschveibinz an hour ago[3 more]

Just spitballing, but what if multiple AI agents played different parts and had to synchronize, harmonize and even improvise with each other? This might add the texture necessary to make the result more "listenable"?

Anyone out there trying to demonstrate this?

FlippieFinance 42 minutes ago

Well then...

Another problem is that I'm getting absolutely spammed with AI songs on Tiktok, Shorts, Reels etcetera. Cheap AI copies even get more streams than the original. Who is even listening to these cheap copies?

Festro an hour ago

So utterly bizarre that a tech CEO can take this approach. It seems plainly obvious that they've tasked their internal teams with a challenge to come up with an AI product they can sell. Probably during a hackathon or something. And the most viable buzz-y thing the produced was 'remixes and cover songs' for 'superfans'.

In a normal world there'd be a market research phase and the tech CEO would be looking at topline stats on where they think users are looking. And then they'll develop products to meet their requirements before competitors do.

Instead we have a made up product (that other AI platforms may offer for free) and a market research report that is telling the CEO that consumers consider the product 'slop'. And the result is a brand deal, money put down, and the CEO having to try to convince consumers it's not slop before it even launches.

This is what we call 'dead on arrival' right?

Laurel1234 an hour ago

Funny how everyone hates AI slop except for the people with financial ties to it.