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.

[DerKEKl]

Hey folks!

We're seeing your feedback and, in this regard, we'd like to share some more info on the matter 🙂

Spotify is 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.
For more info in regard to these new introductions, see the Newsroom article here.

That's all for now, folks! Stay tuned for possible updates in the future.

[Gabijoanna]

These AI “artists” or “bands” are stealing from actual creators. At least disclose who is and isn’t using AI. 

[phparadis1]

Rallying with everyone here. Having an AI toggle switch is a no brainer, I don't understand why it is not there already like with explicit songs. As users (especially premium) we should have the right to decide what we want to hear. Updating credits is like pretending you care but you actually do not. No one ever goes there and it would ruin the listening experience

[kevinbkopp]

Recently got duped by Spotify recommendations with AI generated music by an AI artist called Orion7. I submitted the complaint formally to Spotify's chat and am posting to the community. 

I support real artist and have been a Spotify subscriber for a decade but this is the first time I am truly debating cancelling my subscription. I hate that I am being fed AI generated music in my recommendations without an easy way to identify that it is AI generated or the ability to filter out AI generated music entirely. 

Spotify should combat this immediately and should not be suggesting AI music to folks that don't want it. 

[halsom]

Does anyone know if this idea has been resolved by Spotify? It's been less than a year, and this request has received 52 PAGES of comments supporting the idea to offer subscribers a clear path to remove AI music from their experience. Clearly, it's high time to give us the option.

I agree with many of the comments here that AI music is direct theft from humans by taking from people's music, and it's something no one has asked for — yet we're being forced to experience it without knowing! It's enough to make me (and by the looks of it, a lot of folks) seriously consider abandoning Spotify in favor of an app that gives us choice.  

[Dalberon]

@halsom Why do you think it is theft?  I cannot get my head around the logic of this and it does seem to be a popular opinion. 

I am in this thread as also wanting to block AI music, but because it is mostly very mediocre, not because it is theft. All music is made from people that listened to other music and then combined what they learned into their own twist. If AI music is theft, I think all music is.

[kenrocklepremier]

Because if I as a bona fide human being base my work on someone's earlier work, I have to credit and compensate them, e.g., George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" relative to The Chiffons' "He's So Fine."  The difference is, AI credits no one, and compensates no one.

[Hubbardrbjr]

This issue WILL be what drives me to another platform if there isn’t a solution soon.

[Hoyboy81]

I found a song today on my discover weekly which it turned out was AI. I was so annoyed and disappointed that it wasn’t real and felt conned. I didn’t know this was being allowed on Spotify. I have now doubted every new band I have liked from Discover weekly and am looking through my playlists to remove any others. 
I don’t mind there existing but I want to have control to filter them out. Surely we have that right to only enjoy and support music from real artists?

[jonny99]

Dalberon

I think it´s a big difference if a musician is inspired by what he or she listens to and then writes his own.Or i f you use

AI programs to do so. That´s not creating it´s a form of theft in my opinion. But the problem here is that we don´t won´t to be forced by spotify including it to what they give us as suggestions. Give us the option to block it or at least tag it beside the tracks. 

[AxMn]

@Dalberon The idea of AI music being the product of theft comes from the fact that for the most part, it is.

Search recent legal actions against Meta and Apple regarding being caught with their hands in the cookie jar with their use of torrented (pirated) music when they were denied the rights to materials, or simply when they didn't feel like paying for them, including but not limited to music.

So any materials that use those pirated materials is also theft.

Think of it like buying a really cheap 70" OLED out of the back of a van in a dark alley. It's not far off.