Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from recommendations
Original title: Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
Spotify also launched an AI Persona badge and says it will not recommend music from those personas.
Spotify says it removed more than 50 million songs it classed as AI-generated slop or spam from recommendations over the past year and changed ranking to surface more music by human artists. Editors will not program content identified as slop or spam. Spotify still does not require labels on every AI track, but it will not recommend AI personas. It cites listener feedback, upload patterns, metadata, and third-party detection tools.
Unconfirmed: The 50 million figure and which tracks count as AI slop are Spotify’s own claims.
- Spotify said it took down more than 75 million spam songs last year.
- YouTube Music labels AI songs, Deezer offers a filter, and Bandcamp bans AI music.
- Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group and Believe on an AI remix tool.
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From the original article
2 min read at theverge.com
Spotify says it has removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. That's according to an announcement on Tuesday, which says Spotify has also made changes to its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists. "Our editors hold the same standard and don't program content identified as slop or spam," Spotify says.
By Emma Roth · theverge.com
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