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As fans reject AI-generated music, even boosters are drawing the line

2026-10-21 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

Spotify had to purge 50 million AI slop tracks from its recommendations because apparently flooding a music platform with soulless algorithmic noise wasn't the revolution we were promised. Even AI's celebrity cheerleaders like Grimes and A$AP Rocky draw the line at actually using the stuff themselves — endorsing AI music is cool, but making it? That's beneath them. Nothing says 'the future of creativity' like needing a massive cleanup operation to keep listeners from drowning in generated garbage.

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