.... then they came for the country-music musicians:

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry

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Model Autophagy Disease is one of those things AI boosters don't like to talk about. As the name suggests, it's a syndrome that can lead to model collapse in about five ingestion cycles when a model's own output is included in the ingested data. Like bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, it comes about due to terrible industry practices. Those are difficult to eliminate if the industry in question is entirely dependent on those practices. That's the song the music industry is singing right now.

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For music to matter, it has to evoke emotion. If that emotion is one of horror at AI's exponential banalification of music, or grim satisfaction as it writhes out of the control of its makers and sinks its fangs into their veins, then it may precipitate the collapse of other, bigger, more dangerous models. Another great theme of country music is redemption, after all.

As usual, reading the comments is seriously worth it: there's considerable wise discussion of the enshittification of the alleged popular music charts in times past, which Artificial Banality has now merely turbocharged. Spot the accountancy firm.