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> is anybody using this slop for entertainment?

Yes, from time to time I buy a subscription and upload my songs to see what comes out. Very entertaining. If you know how to handle it, the output is far from slop; see e.g. https://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1428. The whole point is, that this is just another "instrument" (i.e. a means to make music, as was the drum machine in the eighties, or the Fairlight for those who could afford, or all its much cheaper alternatives in the nineties to this day). The "instrument" doesn't replace musicality and abilities, but it enables people who have those to make (good) music.

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I'm sorry but i literally have zero interest in art that doesn't demonstrate process or talent. Prompting abstracts both of those away.

I think of Suno "music" like I think of Soylent as "food": it gets the job done as a means to an end, but hell no would I ever consume it for its taste alone.

By the way, Zappa is rolling in his grave to be invoked on this article

Is this an AI generated response? It has nothing to do with what I wrote, what I demonstrated or my actual experience as a trained musician. Your text sounds very generic, obviously without checking my sources. Nobody requires you to have interest in things you don't like, and you are free to prefer the slop you are served by the "big four" of the music industry. Btw. Zappa would have liked today's possibilities (just have a look at Francesco Zappa or Jazz from Hell, and his justification “if they can’t play it, then why should I be denied the privilege of hearing what I imagine and what I write").