I think some people will never reach a sufficient interest in music to where they can produce songs that reach their level of taste. But those people can be far

I think some people will never reach a sufficient interest in music to where they can produce songs that reach their level of taste. But those people can be far more experienced and interested in a different craft, like programming. So services like these are there to make up the difference in interest for those who don't want to try hard in one domain, but don't see their lack of interest as a problem. It's just a consequence of limited attention budget to devote to so many crafts, and serves as a form of automated outsourcing. Cultivating interest in something you're not interested in is hard. Especially when you care more about N other things already. People who use services like these to produce "slop" wouldn't have produced any songs in the first place otherwise, and I feel a lot of them couldn't force themselves to if they tried. At one level, if the creator is personally satisfied with the output then the bar has been cleared, regardless of what others say. And it's hard to judge someone for choosing programming over music but wishing they could dabble in the other with some level of efficiency. At some point, if you put the bar low enough some people are going to be intrigued, push button and receive song, as nothing will stop them from doing so anymore. That's the point of the bar being lowered. However, I think the calculus changes when those people start to give themselves the air of human artists and upload their songs to streaming. This I believe deserves critical observation since in my opinion art is more than being a human pumping out songs like a factory and watching numbers go up. It's a form of elaborate communication between parties and peer communication is fundamental to our species. So when machines speak for people, a lot of social assumptions that have existed for centuries are overturned. Anyone could have been a human factory pumping out songs detached from the artistic process of reflection the past few decades, but spending hours instead of seconds producing things in such a vacuum is pretty soul-draining, so it was a disincentive for people wanting to do so. I believe the two types of creative output (handmade and AI) have different "qualities" to them. I do not think either can be equated in terms of this "quality". One is deliberately produced and one is randomly stumbled upon. I think we need a new term for the AI era that encapsulates this "quality" of intention in creative output, without the negative implications of a word like "slop".