When is Spotify going to act on AI content?

[ArneS1]

AI slop is getting out of control quickly. NO ONE wants to listen to this garbage, but still Spotify is allowing and sometimes even actively pushing it. When are they going to do something about this? And if they won't, is there a streaming service that does not allow AI content?

[Athanassius]

That's quite simple : no need to pay artist and love to charge us for that 'music' . My recent weekly playlist contained 12 'songs' made by AI. Enough is enough. Greedy Spotify is killing itself. I'm about to quit. Nothing new to listen , need to find the platform made for humans. Let the Spotify for robots. And some people who thinks AI creates nice 'music' 

[BladeFrank]

If they're going to force Ai content down our throats, we need to at least have an option to turn them off. We pay for spotify. I don't wanna listen to this trash. I will cancel if this isn't a feature soon. 

[XPerryMental]

This is just typical behavior from Spotify. Anything they can do to siphon royalties away from actual musicians they will do. I actually took all my music off Spotify because the way they rig their royalty payments they would never pay me a penny. Spotify is the schoolyard bully of music streaming services.

[igalklebanov]

how's tidal regarding AI content? strongly considering moving. been a premium member for years.

there's also a 3rd party service that allows migrating your playlists for 5$ of something too.

[mdupree68]

I'm seeing spammy AI content squatting on real artist profiles, presenting songs as though they were by real artists.  The screenshots are one example - I got 3 over the weekend by the same spammer squatting on Jay Farrar, Richard Buckner and Richmond Fontaine.  It's garbage, it degrades the artist's brand, it pollutes my feed and it is a major threat to the integrity of Spotify's dataset.  We need a "report" button

[mcballz]

Woke this morning to find this fake song credited to Uncle Tupelo. If Spotify doesn't get this stuff off the platform, I'm out. https://open.spotify.com/album/06QgK6MT8xZMi21HKS0qQC?si=mm-JANBBTVO6QQT6BRH27Q

[PaHB]

I'm gonna cancel too I guess. The way Spotify handles AI content is apalling. I hope there will be a platform free of AI garbage soon.

[p30better]

I get your frustration. AI music is growing fast, and not everyone likes it. Spotify hasn’t set strict rules yet, and I don’t know of any major service banning AI content. Hopefully, they improve soon.

[spotix]

They've never had a good way to report deceptive or mislabeled content. For years now random people would upload their music onto artist pages, which ends up on your Release Radar, and Spotify have never done much about it. I've commented on threads in these forums over the years about these issues, and the best we ever got was a literal Google docs form for us to manually fill out to report the "fake" content. Not even a way of doing it in the app. And then? The link to the Google doc was deleted. But that was a long time ago.

Artists themselves have spoken about this for years. Spotify simply do not care one iota; they make their money either way, and have zero incentive to change.

At least back when random people would upload their music to artist pages, it was music (usually very generic trap) made by a real human. But now, obvious AI slop finds its way into RR every week, usually under some long defunct band. This week I've seen new releases from Death (the metal band whose singer died many years ago), and SEVERAL singles from Letters to Catalonia. Both of those cases are very obvious fakes.

Anyway I'm not sure if the other platforms have the same amount of spam, but I switched to Deezer a couple months ago for a bit and it was fine, so I'd encourage anyone to at least try a different platform for a month and see if you like it. Many will do trial periods anyway so you have nothing to lose.