AI-Generated Slop Music Takes Over 2025: From Viral Butt Songs to Bizarre Santa Tracks
What the heck? Artificial intelligence is all over! AI slop has not only permeated the workforce in certain areas, but it’s permeated art, writing, and now music. The slop is low-quality, mass-produced content that tries to pass itself off as something true or real, accurate, and useful. It’s not. Not at all. And the worst part is that it isn’t just fake, it screws up algorithms.
AI as a Tool
Yes, artificial intelligence can be great. It gets things done at often hundreds of times the speed. You can (unfortunately) have artificial intelligence replace people at work, do research, and it can often be used to create. But when does it stop?
If AI is used to augment research or to enhance artists’ work, then it’s one thing. Using it as a substitute for the work is another. In a helpful sense, it’s okay. Or maybe it’s even good. However, the threat of AI becoming more powerful is real. And not powerful in the way of the Terminator, but for it to take over jobs.
AI as a Fake
Herein lies the problem: AI songs, according to Deezer, the French music streaming platform, which are about 600,000 songs per month, are flagged as AI. Non-artificial intelligence-generated mathematics says that’s about 20k songs a day! Yikes. Thankfully, Deezer has a way to remove some of the slop, but Spotify and YouTube are behind in this.
Another frightening aspect is bots. Besides the creation of AI music, users found a way to create bots. The bots go in on the platform and stream the artist’s song(s), so that the artist can get money. Such a case is that of Michael Smith.
Michael Smith, a North Carolina resident, used artificial intelligence to create a seriously large catalog of songs. He distributed them to streaming platforms, then created lots and lots of bots, using VPNs. He then streamed the songs using lots and lots of bots. Since the songs streamed generate royalties, he was able to make money. Lots of it. After a seven-year-long investigation, Michael Smith was arrested and ultimately charged with wire fraud conspiracy.
Butt Songs and Santa Doing Lines
Hopefully not together, but this is just a little sampling of what AI music can be. Unfortunately, Spotify has had an influx of artists who aren’t. They’re artificial intelligence-created slop.
Sure, some songs might be amusing (like “Make Love to My Sh*tter” and the appetizingly named “Taste My A**”). But these songs, no matter how humorously titled, pose a serious danger in the way of skewing the number of streams as well as taking away the platform from real living, breathing (and often starving) artists.
So What’s Next?
At the current time, Spotify and several other major streaming platforms do not have any requirements for revealing what is AI-generated content. Last month, a band that was created by AI, The Velvet Sundown, amassed approximately half a million listeners in a month on Spotify. If we keep encouraging the streaming of these fake bands, then maybe we should change Spotify’s name to Stupefy.
