Question on Spotify Data & Third-Party Generative AI

LFuse — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:45:43 GMT

My Discord bot, "Hershey 🎷," which displays Spotify stats and includes some AI-powered text generation features, had its request for extended quota declined.

The reason given was, "Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine learning or AI model."

I'm fairly certain this relates to two commands (/roast and /compare) where the bot sends aggregated user Spotify data (like top songs/artists for a period) to Google's Gemini API as a prompt. The API then returns a generated text response (a roast or comparison), which is displayed to the user. My bot itself performs no AI training.

Given this, I understand that sending Spotify user data to a third-party AI for processing, even just for prompt-based text generation, is likely considered "ingesting content into an AI model" from Spotify's perspective, due to how these AI services might use prompt data. Is this understanding correct?

Are there any recommended best practices or alternative approaches for developers related to a user's Spotify data that would be more compliant with the policy against AI model ingestion, especially for extended quota?

The project is already open source, and I'm open to making adjustments to align with platform guidelines while still trying to offer engaging features.

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