[bogzz]

It is utterly unbelievable to me that these platforms haven't done anything about generated content yet.

Hell, a music streaming company could make bank with simply a draconian, human-enforced ban on slop. (I understand it's not a simple problem, but there doesn't even seem to be an attempt at fixing it).

I was a Spotify user for 5 years and a Duolingo paid user for 3 years. When I got recommended slop in a random playlist twice, I unsubscribed and have no intention of ever returning. I cancelled my Duolingo subscription as soon as the imbecile CEO made a big stink about replacing workers with LLMs.

Fuck those companies, we shouldn't even give them a chance at rehabilitation.

[firmretention]

A lot of these platforms are actually generating the content themselves to stick into playlists so that when users listen to them, they get 100% of the royalties.

[bogzz]

I went on a short camping trip with my 60+ year old neighbor a couple months ago. He loves country. He had his Spotify playing songs for him the entire trip, and about 20% of the songs were slop. I felt like I was riding with Jerry listening to Human Music (from Rick&Morty).