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.

[abrown68705]

This AI music is getting really bad!!  Let us filter it out, report it, block it or something!  My discover weekly playlist was riddled with AI and I don't want to listen to it! I want to support real musicians! 

[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.

[CognizantApple]

It's disgusting that Spotify promotes AI music and doesn't even give me an option to filter it out. I've had Spotify for 6+ years but I'm cancelling until they clean up the slop. ✌️

[Dalberon]

@AxMn So, if a human listened to music they didn't pay for and then made a song that song would be theft?  I think not. I think if a human stole paint and then painted a mural, the stealing of paint is a theft, the mural is not a theft.  

Apple and Meta have deep pockets and should certainly pay for the music, art, literature, or anything else that they use for training. That doesn't make the product of the training theft, and if it does then most human music and art is also theft.

[jonny99]

It´s a bit different if you are inspired from other artists and then make your own without copying it or if you use AI which is´nt inspired by anything because it´s a machine just taking things others done and then makes something from your preferences in a computer program. Theft or not it´s a sad development in my opinion. And it disrespekt of the real artists out there.

[Dalberon]

@jonny99   It is so rare for me to hear new music and not go "That is a blend of X".  The Hu was probably the last time that happened. I do concur that AI isn't inspired, as that is a feeling. So yeah, if you are saying that it is theft if you don't have feelings that would make all AI music theft.  Probably still make a lot of human music theft too. Most of Aria Grande's music ( who I think is one of the most talented vocalists ever ) feels uninspired to me. 

We are drifting off the main topic though.  We can all agree that our feeds are getting filled with AI, which is mostly not very good (theft or not), and we want a way to get rid of it. 

On your inspired concept though, I have noted that if I am listening and think a song is pretty good then see it is AI it downgrades it for me. It makes me realize that some of the music connection is human emotion. 

[FlemJazz]

Absolutely essential to allow exclusion of AI music. 
Can’t find the vote button, but this is needed. 

[Baelara]

Humans take time to create music, they labour over it. AI will just generate an overwhelming volume in a short time that will largely destroy any possibility to find new, inspired music - or content in general.

AI content filtering is a must.

I get that this makes it harder on humans who will somehow get to prove they're, well, genuinely human.

And I get that a lot of swindlers and crooks will still generate music and offer it as their own and that, sadly, there is no other way than to figure it out and report them.

And I get that it is a whole new mess that you, Spotify, do not want to handle, but that's the way this world is now and we as consumers don't have ANY other way to sway you than with our money.

So please, labeling is a good first step, but we really need you to put a more robust solution in place.