Take vinyl, for example, which, despite the digitization of music and the onset of streaming, has somehow remained completely and utterly unadulterated by the crushing weight of—just kidding, we’re putting AI slop on vinyl now. Suno, the AI slop factory for music, is behind efforts to slopify vinyl, which I can only describe as sad at best. On Suno Vinyl’s landing page, the company writes, “Vinyl isn’t live yet, but it’s coming. While you’re wasting clean water by making music slop, you will also be wasting other resources by making what Suno describes as 12-inch black, environmentally friendly PETG—the only vinyl option for this grotesque experiment in physical media. So, if you’re the type of person who views making music as a box to check off some AI-optimized to-do list, then have it.