Problems surrounding AI have been one of the music industry’s most pressing issues in recent months, and Spotify has announced a strengthening of its platform’s protections against “AI slop,” spamming and other fraudulent activity. The company notes that in the past 12 months, it has removed over 75 million “spammy” tracks from its platform.
Its new protections include a policy to police unauthorized vocal impersonation (”deepfakes”) and fraudulent music uploaded to artists’ official profiles; an enhanced spam filter to prevent mass uploads, duplicates, SEO hacks, artificially short tracks designed to fraudulently boost streaming numbers and payments.
The company also says it’s collaborating with industry partners to devise an industry standard in a song’s credits to “clearly indicate where and how AI played a role in the creation of a track.”
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