AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts.

Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he’d finished listening to alt-country legend Lucinda Williams’ 1992 album Sweet Old World. “I didn’t realize the song was AI at first,” he says. “I thought it might’ve been some obscene joke record from the 80s or 90s.”

The person behind BannedVinylCollection, who goes by “JB” and would not otherwise identify themselves to WIRED, confirmed that his output of X-rated novelty songs are made with AI. Other tunes in BannedVinylCollection’s butt erotica-themed oeuvre include “Grant Me Rectal Delight” and “Taste My Ass.” He says that he is making some money off the music, though most of the profit comes from Patreon and Bandcamp rather than Spotify. “I think it’s fair to make money from it,” he says. “Each song can take hours to make.” His monthly earnings on Spotify, he says, are around $200.

Tim Ingham, the founder and publisher of the trade publication Music Business Worldwide, documented his own experience tracking AI-generated music on Spotify last week. Like Belden, the first AI-generated music Spotify served up to him fell under the adult novelty umbrella; instead of butt-...