Enthusiasts like Grimes and A$AP Rocky may embrace AI-generated content, but they won’t produce it themselves

Streaming services, notable musicians and fans are confronting the growing presence of AI-generated music and drawing lines in the sand.

On Tuesday, Spotify announced it had removed about 50m songs considered AI slop from its recommendations to users over the past year.

As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives

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Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you while sitting in front of Roy Lichtenstein’s monumental Drowning Girl, on view in New York City. Today in tech, we’re discussing the perils of Elon Musk’s one-man global infrastructure, AI-generated music and a Guardian AI conference in Paris.