{"id":35736,"date":"2025-07-03T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35736\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:25:11","slug":"from-sensual-butt-songs-to-santas-alleged-coke-habit-ai-slop-music-is-getting-harder-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35736\/","title":{"rendered":"From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa\u2019s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI slop is flooding every single<\/a> digital<\/a> platform<\/a>, and music streaming services are no exception<\/a>\u2014so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts.<\/p>\n

Take the sordid saga of \u201cMake Love to My Shitter,\u201d an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he\u2019d finished listening to alt-country legend Lucinda Williams\u2019 1992 album Sweet Old World. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize the song was AI at first,\u201d he says. \u201cI thought it might\u2019ve been some obscene joke record from the \u201980s or \u201990s.\u201d<\/p>\n

The person behind BannedVinylCollection, who goes by \u201cJB\u201d and would not otherwise identify themselves to WIRED, confirmed that his output of X-rated novelty songs are made with AI. Other tunes in BannedVinylCollection\u2019s butt-erotica-themed oeuvre include \u201cGrant Me Rectal Delight\u201d and \u201cTaste My Ass.\u201d He says that he is making some money off the music, though most of the profit comes from Patreon and Bandcamp rather than Spotify. \u201cI think it\u2019s fair to make money from it,\u201d he says. \u201cEach song can take hours to make.\u201d His monthly earnings on Spotify, he says, are around $200.<\/p>\n

Tim Ingham, the founder and publisher of the trade publication Music Business Worldwide, documented<\/a> his own experience tracking AI-generated music on Spotify last week. Like Belden, the first AI-generated music Spotify served up to him fell under the adult novelty umbrella; instead of butt-themed country music, it was \u201970s soul-inspired songs about substance use like \u201cI Caught Santa Claus Sniffing Cocaine.\u201d Browsing around Spotify, Ingham writes that he quickly identified 13 artists that appear to be AI-fueled \u201cwith approximately 4.1 million cumulative monthly listeners between them.\u201d Not all of this music was overtly goofy\u2014some of it simply imitates popular genres like country.<\/p>\n

Spotify did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

The mainstreaming of AI music is not contained to Spotify alone. French music streaming app Deezer tracks the volume of AI songs on its platform and has found in recent months that its AI detection system flags 18 percent of tracks uploaded per day, which is around 600,000 songs per month. While Deezer\u2019s tools flag and remove some AI content, like the other major streamers it doesn\u2019t offer a way for listeners to proactively block AI-generated songs from appearing through algorithmic recommendations. \u201cI fully believe that all streaming platforms shouldn\u2019t allow the music to be uploaded,\u201d says Belden. Right now, there\u2019s no such streamer with a blanket AI ban. Major platforms like Spotify and YouTube prohibit AI music that deepfakes actual artists, while YouTube requires creators to label \u201crealistic\u201d AI content. Spotify does not have a disclosure rule around labeling content that\u2019s AI.<\/p>\n

Belden initially shared his story on X last week after media<\/a> reports<\/a> highlighted the overnight success of the Velvet Sundown, a psychedelic rock band that had swiftly amassed over half a million monthly listeners on Spotify within weeks of debuting its music on the platform. Reporters described both the images the band used to promote itself and its music as obviously AI-generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception\u2014so much so, even…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[738,171,975,24929,6584,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-35736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-spotify","12":"tag-streaming","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114790237802089194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}