AI purveyors are on the defensive. Just watch them struggling to spin Pope Leo’s anti-AI encyclical yesterday as something more positive than it really is. That’s an impossible task, but what else can they do?

And now today, the head of Spotify tries to convince critics that AI music might be slop, but somehow Spotify can turn it into something that doesn’t stink quite as much. Good luck with that.

Get ready for more spin of this sort.

AI bosses have finally figured out that the public is against them. So they are scrambling to find some new narrative that will deflect all the attacks. Maybe they ought to try transparency and actual protections for the public and workers. But I’m not holding my breath on that….