Music and sound · 2026-11-09

A Welsh radio station plays AI-made music to test whether listeners really hate it

Welsh musician Mike Chaffin launched AI Slop FM, a free internet radio station that plays AI-made songs alongside human-made ones, without telling listeners which is which.

✨ What the radio station is

Welsh music lover and musician Mike Chaffin created the internet radio station AI Slop FM. It plays music made by artificial intelligence alongside songs recorded by human musicians. He runs the station alone from Ammanford in Carmarthenshire. It can be listened to free of charge, around the clock.

The word "slop" in the name refers to mass-produced, low-quality content made quickly and without care. Critics often use the term for AI music they see as cheap imitation.

📌 Why he runs the experiment

Chaffin removes any mention of AI from the tracks, so listeners do not know which songs were generated and which were written by people. He wants to test whether people really dislike AI music when they have only the song itself and no hints.

He also believes many decent songs on streaming platforms never find an audience, regardless of who made them. He hopes the station will give some of these songs a chance to be heard.

🔹 How listeners take part

Listeners rate tracks with letter grades from S to E, mark the emotions the music evokes, and can leave written reviews. The most popular songs make it into the weekly chart called Slop 40.

Anyone can submit a track, including both musicians and people who make music with AI. The station is still in beta. Chaffin is waiting for enough submissions to fill his schedule across different genres, and he listens to every track to make sure no one is passing off existing hits as their own.

🔸 Industry context

Over the past year, the streaming service Spotify removed more than 50 million tracks from its recommendation algorithms, which it classified as low-quality music or AI-generated spam.

Data obtained after a hacker attack on Suno, a company that develops music AI models, confirms that it trained its models on millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius.

Sources: 🔗 DOU/dev.ua