AI slop existed long before AI did. It’s all the boring, committee-driven copycat filler that has been clogging up the pop charts forever. I think that our job as educators is not just to push back on AI slop made by AI, it’s also to push back on AI slop made by humans. Bob Dylan and the Weavers are better than Peter, Paul and Mary because Peter,

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I love 1980s hip-hop because there’s no way to predict it from projecting trends in 1970s pop. It questions basic assumptions! It’s missing elements that you might have thought were necessary (like melodies) and it brings in elements you didn’t know you wanted until you heard them (like samples and turntable scratching.) Now the 1980s rap exists,

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