All right, hey, everyone. It's Anthony Fantano, the Internet's busiest music nerd. I don't mean to scare you in this video, but I actually do. I intend to freak you out a little bit. I want you going pee-pee in your diapers. Not out of a need or a desperation to further feed into the internet outrage economy. Lord knows there's enough of that already, and we all got to do it sometimes. Okay, guys? We all got to do it.

No, this is more vitally important because there's a storm coming that I need you guys to be prepared for. Whether that be a literal preparedness that allows you to function through the oncoming AIpocalypse, The Slopalopalypse, The Slopocalypse, The Slopalypse.

Here's the thing. The main brains, the main maestros who we have covered on this channel, be it Suno or Udio, the guys who are really at the forefront of all of this bullshit, terrible trash, the garbage AI music that you see just flooding the internet right now. These companies, for a minute, have been locked into a very vital lawsuit with the major labels because it was pretty fucking obvious these platforms were using major label music to train their AI programs and interfaces, and in some cases, spitting out carbon copy music of certain artists' works or even just their voices.

That lawsuit has actually ended recently in a settlement. A settlement and what is essentially a licensing deal. Guys, this is not good. I stress this is not good because when you see the fine print and the articles and the coverage around this settlement, this whole agreement isn't to bring Suno and Udio to heal and put them in a position where they're going to be operating at a point of weakness.

No, Suno, Udio, probably any other up-and-coming AI music generation platform, and the majors are going to start working together hand in hand. These platforms are going to be operating in a way now with major label support and permission, which means what we have been seeing so far is only going to get worse.

I know that there has been a lot of super mediocre and terrible AI music coming out as of late, and I theorize that part of the reason that that is. That settlement, that agreement, the end to that lawsuit hadn't quite arrived yet. So Suno and Udio and similar platforms were afraid of having their platforms drop output that essentially sounded too much alike the music that was on these labels that they were getting sued by.

But now that things have been settled, we are at a point where once Suno, Udio, and the major labels are just ready to let her fucking rip and allow these platforms and their users to just carbon copy, create as much major label artist music as they want, just to their heart's desire. It's going to be an absolute fucking bloodbath on the internet.

Maybe bloodbath is the wrong word. I think Mount St. Helen's style disaster is maybe more appropriate of a comparison here because what you're likely going to experience on social media is going to be a lot like an ash cloud that not only makes it impossible to breathe and exist, but you won't even see your own hand in front of your face. Because the title wave of AI Slop you are going to be just absolutely bashed over the head with, no matter what corner you turn, it's going to be almost impossible to avoid.

Let's say you're a really impassioned member of the Lady Gaga fandom, the Little Monsters. The major labels and the slop merchants that are going to be using these platforms, they're not going to be able to 'help themselves'.

Any metric by which you would keep track of your favorite artist's work and artistic trajectory is going to be flooded with morons, just making one bullshit, fake, copy, Lady Gaga song after another, and basically copy and paste for any other major top 40 artist that you can name.

And look, even if you're not somebody who listens to a whole lot of chart-topping music. This stuff is going to flood your feeds, too. It's going to be in your face, day in, day fucking out. And it's going to be getting algorithmically pushed because one, people are going to hate it, and the more hate that it gets, the more people are going to engage with it, and the more the algorithm is going to throw it in your face.

There's also two; there are going to be morons who like it, which is also going to juice it as well. And number three, all the billionaires connected to this whole AI thing, which is just five fucking corporations in a trench coat. They, too, want it to be successful because they're all invested in it, which is another reason social media and big tech is going to continue shoving it down your throat.

And if you think other mediums of entertainment don't also have this very same future coming around the corner, they very much do because Disney as well just inked a similar deal with an AI generation platform, essentially greenlighting the idea that once they've figured out what the monetization process is going to be, their various intellectual properties, of which they own many, can be endlessly sloppified so long as they're getting a bit of the residuals at the end of the day.

So guys, look, I don't come on here to be super doomer or super negative or portray things as darker than they need to be. My intention here is not to upset you. And I'm not even coming on here to claim and say that I have all the answers, and I guarantee this is all going to happen. It's really bad. And all we need to do is this to prevent it. I don't have that answer. I don't have that silver bullet. I am sorry.

Even as me, being uncle music himself, I don't know. I really don't know. All of this shit, unfortunately, is being forced upon me as well as you. And if there's any answer to any of this, we're just going to have to find a way communally to create hubs and spaces, safe spaces online, where people are able to essentially weather this oncoming storm. Let's say, digitally speaking, AI fallout shelters, where people with actually functioning non-stupid brains and people who aren't bots can culturally come together and convene and have actual discourse and share music and share ideas and share art, again, in an AI-free space where we're not being constantly inundated with Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan, Justin Bieber remixes, where they sing the Charlie Kirk song.

I mean, if you go on YouTube, the website you are on right now, there are already hour-long videos on here of just nothing but AI-generated Juice WRLD music, and people actually fucking listen to it. And again, if you think this shit is inescapable now, it's going to get so much worse once the labels have figured out how they're going to get pennies or fractions of pennies off of every single time one of these AI-slop pieces of shit, based on their content, gets streamed.

Once they they figure that out and they're basically A-OK with this happening, not only are they going to do everything they can in their power to push it, but for sure, anybody willing to prompt this stuff all day and post it, they're going to catch a little bit of a fraction, a piece of the pie, which will incentivize enough idiots to make as much fucking AI Lil Peep music as they possibly can.

Guys, again, this is not good. I feel like all the AI bullshit slop that we have been hating so much, and I know, frankly, a lot of you are tired of hearing about. We're just at the start of what this is going to be. And while personally, I don't predict that this is going to destroy music and destroy the world forever and completely take over and ruin life and mankind as we know it.

I do think it is going to be a lot like a dark period and a storm that a lot of us are going to have to weather and figure out as many ways as we personally can in our own lives, shut it off, block it, ignore it, and just focus on things that are actually worth your time and worth your attention. Focus on real art, real creativity that actually moves us because this is exactly what big corporations and the labels and rights holders have been wanting to do, dying to do. Find out the ultimate way to cut out the artist entirely and simplify their whole business model by just creating stuff that will grab people's attention out of thin air.

And it's going to be onto us to not only foster communities and business models where people who are making actually good stuff, authentically good stuff, and making it themselves, create communities and spaces where those people can thrive, but also do everything that we can to make sure that most of our attention is not being stolen away by all of the AI slop bullshit that for sure is going to be wild and out there and attention-grabbing, so attention-grabbing. It's going to be hard to ignore all the time, but it is going to be a test of fortitude to actually focus on and seek out music and art that is worth our time.

Just ignore the noise, push it to the side, and be good, capable stewards of artistry and creativity, and then reassess once, I don't know, all this bullshit is over, and this bubble has popped, and this nightmare is over.

But yeah, those are my thoughts on that. Hopefully, you guys, I don't know, aren't too freaked out and are maybe encouraged, because I think once the labels, and I think once Disney and other rights holders allow the tap to just be opened on this stuff, it's going to create a flood.

And it's a flood you don't want to get caught up in, believe me. I think that's all I have to say for now.

Anthony Fantano, Slopalopalypse, forever.