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Spotify removes 50 million AI spam tracks from recommendations
Spotify has pulled over 50 million AI-generated songs from its recommendation system and changed how it surfaces music to highlight human artists.
In brief
Spotify has pulled over 50 million AI-generated songs from its recommendation system and changed how it surfaces music to highlight human artists. Spotify removed over 50 million AI-generated spam tracks from recommendations in the past year and adjusted its system to prioritize human artists. Originally reported by…
Spotify removes fifty million spam tracks
Spotify has removed more than fifty million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
Changes to highlight human artists
Spotify has also made changes to its music recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists.
“Since we made these changes, we've seen a marked decrease in listener concerns about this content showing up in recommendations.”
AI Persona badge and detection methods
Spotify launched an AI Persona badge for artists using an AI identity that does not represent a real person, and will not recommend music from AI personas.
Competitors take stricter stances
YouTube Music is putting labels on AI songs, Deezer is giving users an option to filter out AI slop, and Bandcamp is banning AI music entirely.
In short
Spotify removed over 50 million AI-generated spam tracks from recommendations in the past year and adjusted its system to prioritize human artists.
