How can you report fake AI artists?

[jnnx]

I found this AI "artists": https://open.spotify.com/artist/5iDxkYqkajjBahsudnNB0H?si=Bhx0Q_j0RhKnw_xPR-aMKQ that hijacks the recommendations by listing popular artists as performers on their songs. The music is obviously AI garbage. Is there a way report that?

[TanyaS]

Hi @jnnx 

You can report by pressing on three dots near the artist profile -- scroll down press on option report to report from the listed reason 

Hope this helps 

[ThatSingularity]

Hey, I came across a spotify artist called "Gazela" that is just straight up stealing music from Kesha, along with her imagery (both by taking the images or making AI mockups of them). The actual stolen songs have the same lyrics and a bunch of similarities to Kesha's ones, but with a different sound, and Kesha is not credited anywhere.

I tried to report this artist but there's no option to select the music as the thing you want to report, so I wanted to know if there was some way I could report this?

[Hannaella111]

There is also Novi spotify:artist:7LfxHLrmQNqEggZvjaQL1A using Suno AI pretending to be an author and composer...

[stimpsonjcat]

You can report an artist, but none of the reporting options have an option to report fake AI music. 
And even though Spotify removed 75 million fake AI tracks, I still come across AI generated music and album covers. So, Spotify, please add a clear option to report fake music.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4laJhFrOJrEPQJzxPV07mZ?si=Vrby-4CoQwGhrocWTI5Y2g

[greentsrd]

i also found one and tried to report it but it wouldnt let me. for some reason its credited on the soundtracm for that thing you do. 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7lKQtm4sJL5NLREKDXziH3?si=D5gm0JdUTWqeuAVy_NBQxQ   its crazy how people even make money off that since spotify pays so little

[Ruffalo]

I also found a few AI artists. There is currently now option to report artists as AI. Spotify really needs to implement this to protect real artists.

spotify:artist:1rKapWjXOEusWmUBLIGAyY

spotify:artist:5XP7cbu2pLKY7gtP0oalNl

[o1ids6f_b-51n]

i have blocked at least 10 ai "artists" in the last 24 hours -- and many of them were "verified artists" - this is so wrong. Spotify you need to up your game if you expect us to pay for this service.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Mi7UZZa3v6zZ1wbrij1Rj?si=Hu3VQ8NdTfqEFB7urzPRaw
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5iLZfTS4XLeBiFTULAeYLQ?si=jfQ-Wc3tR3ad6Xbf6zNUQg

[raud00237]

Also Enlly Blue. I was like wow, cool new artist - nope! AI and a lucrative seductive AI woman to advertise it aswell... Shameful Spotify that theres no way to know withough doing your own research, no way to report such things or turn off AI artists if I dont want them!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/28W1qq34TByUcLOtkceRxp?si=vSHcUkM-QbOBt1SLgkwKnw

[Mohla]

Why does the headline say "solved"? This is no way solved. There's simply not an option to report AI-songs when you click the three dots. There just isn't any way to report ai-music in spotify. And it's turning the whole platform into garbage.

[Yordan]

Hey, folks,

Your feedback on this is important, as it may ultimately end up paving the way for our broader user experience. Thanks for sharing it here - we appreciate it.

We're working on introducing clearer AI disclosures in the song credits, as well as stricter impersonation rules. These updates will help protect artists’ identities, ensure royalties are distributed fairly, and give you - the listeners - more transparency.

Note that AI disclosures do not affect how the music is treated for recommendations, but you can still manually block any artist or hide/snooze any song you don't want the app playing from the three dots menu.
 

For an in-depth look I'd recommend checking out this article.

The Community is here if there's anything you need assistance with.

[greentsrd]

we shouldnt have to adapt. the company should just add an option to report and make a rule about it.

also, one of my fav soundtracks has almost half its songs credited to just one ai artist. i wanna listen to an album without blocking whoever decided to name their ai band after that thing you do. if spotify truly cared, they would let the users report bots instead of "a new system". fight fire with water. not fire.

[seldomseenkid99]

I just got an obviously fake artist recommended to me even though it only has a single listener. Despite having a blatantly deceptive bio pretending to be human, I can't do anything but block. I quite literally have no control over whether it happens again.

I've been a Spotify user for 10 years and this might be the thing that makes me switch. The algorithm is clearly broken if this no-value, no-listener slop can end up on my recommended despite having so much user data available. 

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@Yordan wrote:

Hey, folks,

Your feedback on this is important, as it may ultimately end up paving the way for our broader user experience. Thanks for sharing it here - we appreciate it.

We're working on introducing clearer AI disclosures in the song credits, as well as stricter impersonation rules. These updates will help protect artists’ identities, ensure royalties are distributed fairly, and give you - the listeners - more transparency.

Note that AI disclosures do not affect how the music is treated for recommendations, but you can still manually block any artist or hide/snooze any song you don't want the app playing from the three dots menu.
 

For an in-depth look I'd recommend checking out this article.

Note that AI disclosures do not affect how the music is treated for recommendations, but you can still manually block any artist or hide/snooze any song you don't want the app playing from the three dots menu.

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Disclosure isn't enough. At bare minimum, users should have an option to report AI music AND hard block any music flagged as AI from being recommended. This is a non-negotiable.   

The wishy washy policy statement glosses over a major issue - listener disempowerment. Like artists, users should have active control over how they incorporate AI into their experience. Problem is user experience is increasingly designed around passive consumption right now. Transparency is just a band-aid unless you also give users more control of how they curate their algorithm.