SLOP - 2025 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year
Prof Snyder's Music Biz News by AI Music and Music Industry Educator, Jeff Snyder
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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, b ...