YouTube Music Users Decry AI-Generated 'Slop' Flooding Recommendations

Overview

• Recent Reddit reports describe feeds and autoplay sessions increasingly populated with AI-created songs from generic, high-volume accounts.
• Dislikes and Not Interested actions appear to mute only individual tracks, and similar uploads or the same accounts return to recommendation rows.
• Subscribers are urging Google to add AI filters and artist or account blocking, with some threatening to cancel and others shifting to curated playlists over algorithmic discovery.
• Google and YouTube have not issued a public response to the complaints, and MediaNama says it has asked the company for comment.
• Industry data show platforms are wrestling with scale, as Spotify reported removing over 75 million spam tracks and Deezer says about 50,000 fully AI-generated songs are uploaded daily, while YouTube offers disclosure and monetization rules but no listener-level AI filtering or labeling in recommendations.