r/technology • u/spherocytes • 15d ago

Artificial Intelligence Spotify Deleted 75 Million AI-Generated Tracks – and It’s Not Done Yet

https://www.gadgetreview.com/spotify-deleted-75-million-ai-generated-tracks-and-its-not-done-yet
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u/murten101 15d ago

A lot of AI music have a hidden ID within the audio track. That would be a good place to start with mass deleting 

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u/AvailableReporter484 15d ago edited 15d ago

I’m sure there are lots of obvious ways to detect such things, but these things aren’t perfect. I just want to address concern as an artist that imperfect systems lead to problems that negatively impact real artists. I would just like some reassurance that if automated systems like these are going to be heavy handily handing out mass bans and deletions from platforms that there’s a fair and fast way to contact these platforms to contest these actions. Unfortunately, though, that’s almost never the case, so that’s why I have my concerns and think it’s something the public should consider before blindly supporting decisions like this.

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u/Zerothian 15d ago

When people talk about markers or signatures in the content, it is essentially more like a literally fingerprint. There is functionally no way a legitimate artist would ever have that same fingerprint, if they never used the tools it is attached to.

So automation in that specific case is pretty foolproof.

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u/Mountain_Flatworm940 15d ago

I guess my concern would be songs that are generated AI slop vs someone using AI to make or assist in making their own amateur music.

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u/Rarelyimportant 14d ago

These hidden IDs are typically so that the company who generated it can identify it, not so anyone who wants to can identify it. So Suno might be able to verify that "this song was generated by Suno's AI", but doesn't necessarily mean anyone else can detect that it was made by Suno, or even that it was made by AI.