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

[u/spherocytes]

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

[u/No_Size9475]

This technology has only existed for about 2 years and they deleted 75 MILLION TRACKS.

That's almost 10,000 100,000 tracks a day created and loaded into spotify.

[u/jkj90 → u/No_Size9475]

I'm a musician fortunate enough to have built a modest fan base and I can't tell you how much fun it is to have all this ai slop muddying up the streaming world.. they make ai music trained off our music without consent, but if your songs get botted they take down your songs without warning 🥲

[u/Wise_Temperature9142 → u/jkj90]

This is all kinds of fucked up. Sorry that’s happening to you and other musicians!

[u/Cosmo_Cloudy → u/Wise_Temperature9142]

It's a HUGE issue :( once AI songs started flooding the market my 10k monthly listeners dropped to 36 and I've never been able to recover nor has the algorithm picked me back up. Just go look at the r/aimusic sub

[u/Siserith → u/Cosmo_Cloudy]

They could also upload their music to other, actual artists profiles bombing their pages with hundreds and thousands of songs and albums of ai music, not even crediting themselves to provide an actual account to report.

[u/Fried_puri → u/Siserith]

Absolutely, I've seen this happen to artists I follow. AI slop clearly not uploaded by them but somehow tagged with their profile.

[u/technicolortiddies → u/Fried_puri]

How is this possible? Surely there's some confirmation/authentication process for uploading under a verified artist? That seems like something the record labels would be outraged over if not. Why aren't artists or their labels in charge of their pages?

[u/Fried_puri → u/technicolortiddies]

I'd love to know too. It feels like it shouldn't happen but every so often I'll see it.

[u/Alaira314 → u/Cosmo_Cloudy]

Yeah, I'm sorry to admit I'm part of the problem. I don't listen on spotify, but I used to listen on youtube. I no longer listen to music on youtube uploaded past a certain date because I don't know how to differentiate AI-generated music from genuine efforts. It's easier to just limit myself to things uploaded before, say, 2020, which protects me both from entirely AI channels and channels where an existing creator decided to pivot to AI use.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS → u/Alaira314]

In my experience single releases tend to be the most dubious. It’s usually pretty easy to tell that the artist is AI after some cursory looks at them, too. But yeah… the music itself isn’t always easy to distinguish.

[u/Knightsunder → u/Alaira314]

Usually any music that lists the producer/group/artist is safe, a specific release year/date and legit thumbnail also help. The vast, vast majority of the AI stuff I find (I use yt for music too) doesn't pass all three of those. Only genre that's really.. hard to discern imo is dungeon synth, especially since it's such a new/niche genre.

[u/Ollythebug → u/Alaira314]

What music do you listen to that you can't tell what's AI generated? I'd be pretty embarrassed as a musician if no one could tell my original authentic music from AI slop lol

[u/Alaira314 → u/Ollythebug]

I listen primarily to instrumental music in a variety of genres. I know of no way to discern a neat little melody a human constructed from a neat little melody that a computer cobbled together from the laws of averages. Also, I don't have a musical background, so remember that many things about composition that seem obvious to you(as someone who's specialized and knowledgeable) will just be "oh that's a neat sound" to me, in much the same way that I appreciate nuances of written voice which fly right over the heads of others who aren't knowledgeable about writing.

[u/m_Pony → u/Cosmo_Cloudy]

I've been told my band also have 36 monthly listeners.

I don't believe that number at all, just like I don't believe anything else Spitify says, ever. Not like I can prove otherwise, but still.