YouTube Music recommendations are filling up with AI-generated tracks leaving netizens fuming

AI generated content is started to spread rapidly and this time to the music recommendations of YouTube users which has displeased a lot of paying users. A number of users on Reddit and other forums have complained that they are seeing a lot of AI generated music recommnedations with the usual recommendation metods like clicking on ‘I am not interested’ or thumbing down the title making no difference to the recommendations.

"Opened YTM today and six out of ten News recommendations were AI slop. The other day every other song in my auto-generated playlist was AI slop. Clicking "I'm not interested" nor thumbing them down really makes no difference as it only applies to this one specific song, not the "artist"" wrote one user on Reddit

Several users in the comment section mention who say that the same kind of ‘slop’ is also creeping into their feeds, an issue that seems to especially bugging YouTube Music users.

“I listen to a lot of R&B and there's a lot of slop there. Disliking the song does nothing because they'll keep recommending the same AI accounts no matter how many of their songs I dislike. We need an option to block accounts.” noted one user

“they're terrible, and youtube is terrible for their complicity.” added another user

Meanwhile, some users say that the issue is not limited to YouTube Music and is also permeating to other music streaming platforms like Spotify or Amazon Music.

With artificial intelligence systems allowing users to create content and in this music in seconds, that is almost impossible to discern from the content created by humans. While many users battle with how to distinguish between real and AI music, others are quick to figure out if the track is not created by a human. With multiple threads on Reddit, this does not seems to be an isolated issue either and YouTube would have to take further steps in order to ensure that users listening experience remains relatively unhindered from the AI generated ‘slop’.

While the company would probably work on improving its detection and segregation of AI generated content in the long term, users on Reddit have asked the streaming giant to return the block account option in order to not see content from accounts that they suspect to be AI generated.

How are users noticing if music is AI generated?

Some users say they figure out if the track is generated by AI if the ‘band name seems generic’ or if the ‘cover art is suspicious’. Others say having generic songs with moderately processed vocals is an indication as well.

“humans do those as well, but the mid generic humans usually don't have as good other production unless they use AI to fix that. I” explained one user

“Any and all AI music without exceptions have signs of being generated: very weird vocals that a normal person wouldn't normally sing that way” explained another user