Reporting AI Slop

[wade-phase]

Hello,

I've been a Pandora user for quite some time and recently a station of mine played a track by this "artist:"

https://www.pandora.com/artist/aria-sai/ARJP2fcxP6X6n9Z

I investigated the "artist" via external channels and found that it is not an actual person, but an AI generated fictitious entity posing as a person.

I do not know what Pandora's official policy is regarding AI slop, so let me briefly point out why this content is detrimental to your service.

While some people object to the content on the grounds that it is computer generated, I do not have a problem with this fact. I have listened to electronic music for a very long time and find the use of computers in music generation to be a very positive innovation that benefits both artists and listeners.

My problem with this content is that it is deceptive and created in bad faith. If the music were simply created by an artist using an AI voice synthesizer for the vocals, that would be totally acceptable. But instead of doing this, the creators of this music have chosen to obscure their identity and instead falsely claim that music they used a computer to generate was created by a non-existent computer-generated entity in an attempt to mislead listeners into emotionally attaching to this entity by exploiting their psychological sentiments which have been created through prior experiences with actual human artists.

It is clearly a bad-faith exploit, the sole purpose of which is to artificially elevate the popularity of this inexpensively computer-generated content to increase play counts and revenue intake from the licensing fees that Pandora pays to real artists for their content.

Tolerance of this behavior is detrimental to the service because Pandora exists to connect listeners with artists and musical content, and if Pandora is playing fake, low-quality, computer-generated slop instead of something an artist spent time and energy to create, then both the artists who create content and the listeners who consume their content are harmed because, instead of connecting the listener with an actual artist, Pandora has connected the listener with a scam artist whose intent in the creation of music is not expressive but exploitative.

When I visited the artist page to report this content as deceptive, I found no simple mechanism to flag it, so I decided to post here to request that you take down the content.

Also, given the increasing prevalence of AI slop content, I think it would benefit the service greatly to provide users with an easier mechanism for reporting the presence of deceptive content like this, as posting to a community forum is an inefficient use of time both for Pandora users and staff.

Thanks!

[raqsjulia]

I just heard an Aria Flux song and my spidey senses started tingling.  I just felt like something was off with the song.  Of course I looked her up and she's not real.  So disappointing.  I'm canceling my subscription to Pandora.  You're doing a great disservice to your customers and to music artists.  I can't be part of this.

[TexasHumvee]

I am going to give Pandora another month to get this **ahem** off their programming, as NOBODY wants this in their life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[restlessbear50]

There's really no reason to "give Pandora another month". They've made their choice. They're embracing ai slop and they don't care what any of us think.

I fully encourage people to make noise about it, and absolutely block their ads and don't pay for their subscriptions. The greedy corporate leeches that are now in charge won't change their behavior unless their pocketbook is affected, we've seen that clearly enough.

The other option is to find alternatives, which I already have. But I stay subscribed to this thread and a similar one on Spotify to keep track of the temperature, so to speak.

The corporate ghouls keep pumping out propaganda to convince us that everyone wants and loves the ai slop, and they will keep doing so until the bitter end. They've sunk way too much money into it at this point, and there yet remains plenty of people who gobble up the slop like good little piggies out of ignorance, indifference, or both.

[Haunty]

Also canceling my subscription. I don't want to support or pay for AI slop.

[Dee71712]

Aria Flux is what led me to this.  I have music that plays in the background while I work, so I don't have the opportunity to thumbs down everything.
Pandora needs to tag this stuff as AI and give us the opportunity to not support it.

[chrimoke]

Aria Flux was how I ended up here too. A computer can generate sounds, but it has no soul. What makes music and art meaningful is that it was made by a human soul for other human souls. Everything else is just empty.

It just doesn't really offer tunable stations like Pandora does. Tragically.

No, seriously, get rid of AI music. I keep finding AI songs dropping into my stations. Giving them a thumbs down messes up the station's algorithm. I have no way to filter out all the AI slop that pulls money away from human artists with human souls and gives it to some **ahem** with a computer. I've had a Pandora account since forever... but I'm out the first time Bandcamp or some other platform offers what Pandora did 15-20 years ago along with a no-AI policy.

Moderator Edit: Merged comments

[Amanuensis]

I strongly concur.  I would like Pandora to adopt a no-AI policy and remove all music created through generative AI.  I understand that the music distributors may not let you know in all instances; in that case, users should be able to flag an artist.  At the bare minimum, a configuration option should be provided to remove all AI content for oneself, though I strongly recommend that it simply be banned.

The primary reason that I have been a paid Pandora member for the last 17 years is that the algorithm that does the matching was trained by humans who love music.  That is the major differentiator that has kept me loyal to Pandora and kept Pandora ahead of its competitors, even as some of them grew larger.  Embracing generative AI is a betrayal of that care you have tended for the last several decades; I urge you to strongly consider the consequences of a future where AI music runs rampant inside Pandora.

[TexasHumvee]

I wonder why Pandora has not addressed this issue...I mean, surely they have some idea that it's not being widely accepted. Does anyone have info on anything Pandora has said about AI songs?

[chrimoke]

Pandora, like most businesses out there, seems terrified to being left behind the AI wave. I was trying to listen to a electronic station, but every other song was AI: 10 albums released so far in 2026, AI art, generic song names... it's pretty enraging that Pandora is redirecting artist payments to lazy keyboard warriors. I've been using Pandora for 20 years (!) now, but maybe this is it.

Spotify isn't much better, and I always preferred Pandora's MGP for radio stations. I'm trying Deezer now (French service similar to Pandora, founded 2007), and that seems pretty good so far. Might be worth checking out, since Pandora seems to have no interest in supporting artists.

Why have a brain and a soul when you can AI? Stop thinking and creating! Just let a machine turn you into a husk from which I can extract money.

-some tech bro, probably