Comment by HeinzStuckeIt

Lyrics produced some of the first AI slop I noticed after ChatGPT was launched in late 2022, even if the large models hadn’t been trained on them specifically. Overnight there were a bunch of different advertising-laden sites that clearly scraped Genius or other lyric websites, and then had GPT generate commentaries on what the lyrics supposedly mean, so that these would get picked up by search engines.

The result was mostly comical, the commentaries for vacuous pop music all sounded more or less the same: “‘Shake Your Booty’ by KC and the Sunshine Band expresses the importance of letting one’s hair down and letting loose. The song communicates to listeners how liberating it is to gyrate one’s posterior and dance.” Definitely one of the first signs that this new tech was not going to be good for the web.