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AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?

TechnologyMay 3, 2026
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AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?
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The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018's I AM AI by Taryn Southern and 2019's Proto by Holly Herndon, albums that were created with significant assistance from AI. Others got in on the action too, exploring the outer limits of tools like Google's Magenta and even training their own mod …

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