{"id":57,"date":"2026-05-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-music-is-flooding-streaming-services-but-who-wants-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:00:00","slug":"ai-music-is-flooding-streaming-services-but-who-wants-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-music-is-flooding-streaming-services-but-who-wants-it\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>AI music is flooding streaming services \u2014 but who wants it?<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colorful soundwaves\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1468752442.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>This is <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/the-stepback-newsletter\">The Stepback<\/a><em>, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how AI is changing music and the music industry, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/terrence-obrien\">Terrence O&#8217;Brien<\/a>. <\/em>The Stepback <em>arrives in our subscribers&#8217; inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for <\/em>The Stepback<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/newsletters\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How it started<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018&#8217;s <em>I AM AI<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/27\/16197196\/taryn-southern-album-artificial-intelligence-interview\">Taryn Southern<\/a> and 2019&#8217;s <em>Proto<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/5\/15\/8584937\/holly-herndon-platform-album-review\">Holly Herndon<\/a>, albums that were created with significant assistance from AI. Others got in on the action too, exploring the outer limits of tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2018\/3\/13\/17114760\/google-nsynth-super-ai-touchscreen-synth\">Google&#8217;s Magenta<\/a> and even training their own mod \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/921599\/ai-music-is-flooding-streaming-services-but-who-wants-it\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,5,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-gadgets","category-column","category-gadgets","category-streaming","category-the-stepback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}