AI-powered music generators Suno and Udio have been churning out soulless slop for almost two years now, but it seems that AI-generated songs have largely failed to capture the public's imagination in the way that many of the technology's critics had feared.
A handful of AI-made tracks have broken through to the mainstream: in 2023, a controversial 'fake Drake' song with deepfake vocals picked up millions of streams before being taken down, and more recently, an unsavoury AI-generated track made it into Germany's charts, stirring up tensions for an entirely different reason.
