It is fair to say that McDonalds is a very literal form of slop, yet I enjoy it. That said, I despise AI music, and at least McDonalds doesn’t literally steal f

It is fair to say that McDonalds is a very literal form of slop, yet I enjoy it. That said, I despise AI music, and at least McDonalds doesn’t literally steal food from better restaurants, whereas AI music companies are just indefensible thieves[1]. And I suspect consuming an AI-generated song is considerably unhealthier than consuming a Big Mac, which at least has some protein. [1] LLMs and art generators don’t understand text or images but the illusion is quite robust. The thing that grinds my gears about AI music is the AI inevitably “tips its hand” and reveals it doesn’t understand melody or rhythm in the slightest. An AI music “hallucination” isn’t a weird face in the background or a fictional citation, it is the AI briefly having the musical sensibility of a baby on a toy piano.