Spotify has declared war on AI tracks: 75 million generated songs removed from the music service's catalogue

The popular music service Spotify has conducted a large-scale clean-up of its catalogue of AI-generated tracks and announced that it has strengthened measures to protect bona fide artists.

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75 million songs have been removed from Spotify's library! The management of the platform explains this decision by the fact that recently the technologies of generative artificial intelligence have progressed so much that almost anyone can use them to create music without putting any effort into it.

Such "composers" and "performers" have flooded Spotify with a huge number of tracks that are disguised as works by famous musicians. The authors of these fakes receive significant royalties from Spotify for each listen to their music, and the mass of such tracks makes it impossible to compete between AI music and real artists.

To curb this practice, Spotify is introducing a spam filter that will automatically flag mass downloads, duplicate tracks and SEO-optimised song titles. The system is set to favour real artists and should not affect their earnings.

Spotify has also banned AI clones of artists' voices, and is working with partners to come up with a new algorithm that will require artists to voluntarily indicate how they used AI to create a track.

It is likely that other digital platforms will soon resort to a similar solution, as the amount of AI content is becoming too much with an increasing trend.

Source: Spotify