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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid
Even listeners who hate the idea of AI music are getting served tracks like “Taste My Ass” and “I Caught Santa Claus Sniffing Cocaine” on Spotify and other streamers.
Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he’d finished listening to alt-country legend Lucinda Williams’ 1992 album Sweet Old World. Other tunes in BannedVinylCollection’s butt erotica-themed oeuvre include “Grant Me Rectal Delight” and “Taste My Ass.” He says that he is making some money off the music, though most of the profit comes from Patreon and Bandcamp rather than Spotify. While Deezer’s tools flag and remove some AI content, like the other major streamers, it doesn’t yet offer a way for listeners to proactively block AI-generated songs from appearing through algorithmic recommendations.
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