Release Radar this week was almost all AI generated music

[ChrissyGee]

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

My Question or Issue

I usually check out the release radar once per week just in case there's some fun new music I've missed out on.

This week though I noticed that out of the 30 tracks, 23 of them all followed a very specific pattern:

• All from artists with just one or two tracks in their library, with no listeners and no followers or no related artists.
• All tracks are slightly less than 2 minutes long.
• All track titles suffixed with "- Original Mix".
• All the album art is some AI generated variation of colored squares or triangles.
• All tracks structurally sound pretty much the same. A simple four on the floor beat with a wobbly bass line and random twinkly synth sounds on top.
• Some times even the actual melodies were identical between several tracks as well.

Is this an AI thing?

Are AI people flooding Spotify with terrible AI made music that somehow satisfies Spotify's algorithm and gets hyper-promoted?

I grabbed all the suspected AI tracks and put them in a playlist here: AI tracks? 

I've found a lot of gems through the release radar over they years, and if it ends up becoming unusable due to a flood of AI generated stuff that would be awful!

[w00table]

Country

Norway

My Question or Issue

Recently, I've stumbled across a handful of "artists" with nonsense song titles and artist names, each with a single song of right around 2:00. Most of the found artists also have an extremely similar quality, as though the songs are AI generated from the same prompt with a different seed. Is Spotify aware of this issue? I know there was a huge FBI bust earlier this year with a guy stealing some millions in royalties. I wonder how much of an arms race this is between scammers and moderators...🤔

Artists:
Keeling Kenny
Jiyra Moon (? - has three songs)
Bourque Solano

Montanez Hope
WeATHERFORD DORAN
Taft Russ
Jaramillo GOODRICH
Carlos Mattson
PICKENS OAKES
Kovach Omalley
Sanabria Oakes

Mcmillen Gil

Barrow Zimmer
Atchison Fournier
Bauman Machado
Thibodeaux Dove
Conn Baron
Gough Prather
Calabrese Chow
Mullis Weller
Beeler Dowd
MARQUARDT BARTLEY
Flood Prado
Ammons Shaver

Sanches Eller

Basham Gerber

Seiler Alaniz

Rauch AKins

Davey Culver

Simonson Song

and so on, and so on... ad infinitum.

[1159653719]

I'm having the same problem. My discover weekly is also a mess but I thought release radar was only for bands I've shown interest in before. Right now, it's all trash I've never heard before

[biv2k]

Yeah I’ve just unsubscribed due to this, recommendations filled with really bad AI-generated trash. Either scammers are abusing Spotify to upload and profit for these works, or Spotify is creating them to dodge royalties. Either way, it’s not what I’m paying for.

[Mackstarr]

This is a big problem, but it's not only individuals doing it, Spotify themselves are creating thousands of AI generated artists and placing them in our recommended playlists. It's an extension of when they promoted some unknown middle of the road Swedish in-house producer with millions of listens on Spotify but nothing outside on other streaming platforms and got caught out.

[Naxterra]

This is happening for months for me. Spotify always gives irrevelant suggestions, not even close to what I listen to with weird artists and songs. I will soon cancel my subscription and fully switch to Apple Music. Only thing that keeps me with Spotify is their Windows app, which is also getting bloated a lot lately.

[Landau]

Please stop allowing AI generated music! I want my money going to people who actually create, not a person who writes prompts. Leaving Spotify soon. Between AI music overload and the removal of "hide track" option from Discover Weekly on desktop is ruining the Spotify experience. My tolerance for this shenanigans is reaching an end.