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AI 'slop' hits worrisome note for recording industry: Can regulation protect creators?

By Mike Swift ( September 19, 2025, 23:58 GMT | Comment) -- Music platforms like Deezer are being flooded with ersatz AI-generated tunes, social media platforms like Reddit face an inundation by machine-generated text and images. Is there a role for regulation and legislation to prevent the unchecked spread of what has been dubbed "AI slop"? One hope is a nascent content standard that attempts to flip the impossible problem of flagging AI-generated content to the solvable problem of identifying content created by humans. For now though, the recording industry is betting on copyright litigation over the use of copyrighted music and lyrics in US courts to stem the problem.Deezer, a French music streaming service, launched a new tool at the start of 2025 that allows the platform to identify music created by artificial intelligence, discovering that 10 percent of music uploaded there was machine-generated. By April, the share of uploaded music made by artificial intelligence grew to 18 percent....

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