Mark / Disable AI Generated Songs

[DerKEKl]

The platform is increasingly flooded with AI-generated songs (especially the Release Radar), making it harder for users to discover authentic, human-created music. To improve the listening experience, Spotify should introduce a clear label for AI-generated songs and provide an option to filter them out entirely.

[carlostroll]

If this issue doesnt get taken seriously by Spotify, is just going to get worse, because not only is Spotify getting flooded with fake AI generated "Music/Artists", but the algorithm is also getting tricked to push ai generated music into Weekly Discovery Playlists and Radios. AI generated "artist" are using bots to rapidly inflate their growing rate of monthly listeners and streams. These bots also create their own playlists and add the ai generated songs. This makes the algorithm think "oh this artist is growing really fast and getting a lot of streams in a short period of time, they must be good" and proceed to push ai generated music into various playlists, which then get streamed by real people, pushing the music even more, converting this into a vicious cycle.

Real users and people that listen to playlists as background noise may not always be able to tell the difference and skip ai generated songs. But for people actively trying to discover genuine new music, AI generated songs just sound like what they are: soulless, repetitive and empty generated music.


All this is an issue that affects the platform in many ways, like:

• The music discovery experience gets ruined, because users have to actively navigate through tons of ai generated music to find real artists and real songs in spotify playlists
• Emerging new artists now struggle even more to get their music pushed by the algorithm, making the platform unactractive to promote their music and getting discovered
• And maybe the most scary and unfair effect: because ai generated "artist" are getting a decent amount of streams from listeners that dont get to skip their songs before the 0:30 mark, they are able to monetize their "music". So basically, Spotify is paying and rewarding ai generated "artists". These "artists" do not even care about making genuine good music. They just look for an easy and quick side hustle that is STILL unpatched, simply by uploading prompted generated mediocre "music". Quantity over quality.
  
  

If Spotify cares about their platform, their users, their artists and their whole community, they should really take this issue seriously.

So please, to everyone that reads this comment and care about this platform: Vote for this issue and make some noise. Lets get some traction to get Spotify to listen.


Example of an ai generated artists, that get promoted in Weekly or Monthly Discovery Playlists in the rock/metal scene (they are even VERIFIED by Spotify):
Cimmeris 

[jonny99]

Wery well written. Now when you get suggestions in release radar or discover weekly you have to manually check every unknown track to find out if it´s a real artist or just a fake which is very timecosuming and takes the mind of from what you realy want to do listen to god music not shitty muzac. Why don´t spotify start a streaming service with just AI generated music so those who want it can emigrate to that. 

This is written by a real person so any misspelling is on me.

[randomedd]

I've been using the AI DJ since it was release and honestly, I quite like the feature, but I have noticed more and more songs popping up for me that are 100% AI-only. Who wants to listen to AI generated music?! The industry needs to fight back against this or music as an art form is just dead.

[Garmiir]

This situation keeps getting worse, won't Spotify do anything about it? It's truly getting annoying, i feel like i'm in Matrix at this point.

[Dale83]

My "Release Radar" is no longer useful, let alone fun. Weeding through and trying to ensure I'm not listening to AI is a major pain. I'm seeing more and more songs with multiple "artists" now, sometime 5 or 6, and none of them are legit. AI music is a plague, please Spotify, give us tools to easily block/filter AI.

[42towels]

100// agree! Even more since Spotify raises again its charge for the family abo to outrageously 22€.

Where is the added value to the Service?
Its finally enough!!

[Miku_addict]

Thats just disappointing honestly, nobody actually likes ai music either lol, people usually just listen to it as a joke or ironically and don't actually ENJOY the music. Ai kinda defeats the point of music being art and enjoyable instead of LITERALLY being slop

[Miku_addict]

If you want to discover music made by real people in the meantime, definitely go on YouTube and do some research there, it'll be easier to explore music and artists and decide if something is ai there so you can have some juicy 30 hour long playlists on Spotify lol. I usually always find artists on social media instead of Spotify

[rat_whiskers]

Over a year now of people wanting a way to filter out the ai trash, and Spotify is not just ignoring us, but is actively encouraging and amplifying the amount of phony, counterfeit content on its platform. Pushing it into our feeds, hiding the fact it's ai slop, almost certainly benefiting from it monetarily, and all the while treating everyone but the highest tier mega-popular artists like garbage.

I've had enough. I can't stomach even opening up the app anymore, knowing just how ens#|ttified it and this company has become. After 10 years, I'm done with Spotify.

Good luck to the rest of you sticking with it. Hopefully if enough of us take our money and leave it will cause Spotify enough fiscal pain to make the service better for the rest of you.

[selicos]

This is needed. I'm tired of seeing my real life artists friends get bumped from lists for a generic 2024 song that's clearly not human generated.