SLOP - 2025 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year

Описание: Merriam-Webster made the word 'slop' the 2025 Word of the Year. It refers to AI music as being garbage, but "Every Media Revolution Breeds Rubbish and Art." EDM, Rap, Hillbilly, Rock, Bubblegum, all have been considered to be trash...the slop of the day.

97% of people can't differentiate what is and isn't AI generated. One writer wrote that while 90% of AI music is garbage, but 10% is 'tolerable.' Hasn't that always been the case with popular music? Before AI, only 5% of released music broke even, another 5% were hits that made up for the 90% that didn't break even.

All of the distributors like YouTube, ASCAP, Spotify, and even the Copyright Office use the honor system asking content creators to voluntarily admit using AI. I.E. don't ask don't tell!

Forget the US government helping. It tried in 2023, but was revoked this year and is now 'guided' by the very tech companies it sought to regulate.

Since AI generated content can't be copyrighted, which can affect royalties, can we trust musicians to be honest when submitting? An industry described by Hunter S. Thompson as "...a cruel and shallow money trench"?

Is SLOP the new genre?

Sources: https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot....