5. Slop (Who Is This For?)

A year ago, I was driving my daughter home from preschool when Spotify autoplayed a song that cut out mid-note. It was AI, and whoever made it hadn't bothered to fix the ending. So I tracked down the 19-year-old behind it. That was just the start of a trip down the rabbit hole. It turns out there's a lot of slop out there. Is it going to ruin everything? Or am I looking at it all wrong?

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In this episode

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Cherie Hu, founder of Water & Music (waterandmusic.com)

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Kristin Robinson, Billboard reporter and host of Billboard On the Record (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/billboard-on-the…)

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Romain Hennequin, head of research at Deezer

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Kate Knibbs, senior writer at WIRED (wired.com/author/kate-knibbs)

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Caitlin Canty, musician (caitlincanty.com), and one half of Down Like Silver (downlikesilver.bandcamp.com)

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Tracy Chan, CEO of Splash (splashmusic.com)

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