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Before you call AI music "slop," consider: recorded sound was once the devil's work. Now it's kudzu. Welcome to the end.

In Part 2, Tony Parisi dissects AI music’s strange promise: liberation for artists, dependence on platforms, and a growing sea of profitable slop.