Spotify says more than 50 million “AI-generated slop” and spam tracks have been taken out of users’ recommendations.<\/p>\n
The digital music service last year announced its plans to “protect listeners from spam, impersonation, and deception in the age of AI”. <\/p>\n
In an update on Wednesday, Spotify said: “AI-generated slop and spam don\u2019t belong in your recommendations, and we\u2019ve made changes to keep them out and protect the listening experience”. <\/p>\n
“Earlier this year, we looked closely at the tracks listeners were skipping, ignoring, or telling us they didn\u2019t want to hear,” Spotify said.<\/p>\n
“A clear pattern emerged: these tracks were consistently ones identified as slop or spam.”<\/p>\n
The platform said “numerous” updates had been made to its recommendation system over the last six months to \u201cremove slop and spam, and surface more music made by authentic, human artists\u201d.<\/p>\n
“Our editors hold the same standard and don\u2019t program content identified as slop or spam. Since we made these changes, we\u2019ve seen a marked decrease in listener concerns about this content showing up in recommendations.”<\/p>\n
AI-generated tracks were identified through listener engagement and feedback, upload patterns, metadata and information from multiple third-party AI detection tools, Spotify said.<\/p>\n
More than 75 million “spammy” tracks were removed from the platform last year for “serious or repeated violations” of Spotify’s rules.<\/p>\n
AI song tops music charts<\/p>\n
Artists fear their work isn\u2019t being protected enough from the fast-emerging technology. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, AI song Celebrate Me shot to the top of the iTunes charts<\/a> in New Zealand, the US, the UK, France, and Canada after going viral on TikTok.<\/p>\n Credited to artist IngaRose, it was created on AI music software Suno and had more than 7 million plays on Spotify.<\/p>\n Suno is an American generative AI software designed to create music from a simple text prompt.<\/p>\n