{"id":114746,"date":"2025-09-03T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114746\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:50:11","slug":"crazy-sheep-anthrax-become-the-latest-victims-of-ai-slop-impostors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114746\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Sheep? Anthrax become the latest victims of AI slop impostors"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve had AI imitating dead artists<\/a>, AI imitating folk artists<\/a>. Now AI have tried to pull the wool over Anthrax fans in a shape of a new album, Crazy Sheep. <\/p>\n

Crazy Sheep turned up on the band\u2019s Spotify<\/a> page the other day, listed as a collaboration with an artist called \u2018El Director\u2019 who only has 273 monthly listeners on the platform. But one listen to the album is enough to realise that Crazy Sheep has nothing at all to do with the real Anthrax \u2013 not unless they\u2019ve made a sudden detour into bland one-size-fits-all EDM.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no comment about it from the band as yet and the album \u2013 if you can call it that, it\u2019s only seven tracks \u2013 has been greyed out on the Spotify web page.<\/p>\n

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And as for \u2018El Director\u2019? Well this \u2018individual\u2019 has apparently released nine albums since the start of 2024, an incredible work rate for a human being and all nine have cover art that appear to be stock or AI-generated images.<\/p>\n

But the question really is, what is Spotify doing about all of this? Their tardiness in taking down AI-generated music of existing artists, not to mention the whole Velvet Sundown controversy earlier this summer is not good PR for the platform.<\/p>\n

In recent months, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Deerhoof have removed their music from Spotify, albeit in protest of Daniel Ek\u2019s investment in AI military drone technology. Unless the platform starts taking the profileration of AI slop seriously, that trickle of defecting artists could easily become a stampede.<\/p>\n

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