{"id":340533,"date":"2025-12-10T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340533\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:51:09","slug":"king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-fans-spot-ai-clone-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340533\/","title":{"rendered":"King Gizzard &#038; the Lizard Wizard fans spot AI clone on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mere months after Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard exited Spotify at full volume, the band\u2019s fans who still linger on the platform claim the streamer is now serving up AI-generated clones of their King. <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per Futurism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Music\/comments\/1phag1t\/spotify_now_features_ai_band_clones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redditor Dipper_Pines<\/a> claims that Spotify recommended them the cleverly named knockoff \u201cKing Lizard Wizard\u201d on their Release Radar playlist. As if anyone needed a clearer distillation of how little artists matter to that platform, the five-song EP by King Lizard Wizard features the same song titles as actual King Gizzard songs, including \u201cRattlesnake,\u201d which has swindled more than 32,000 plays from the King Gizzard\u2019s loyal subjects. With its low-effort AI album cover, some tracks even list band leader Stu Mackenzie as \u201ccomposer\u201d and \u201clyricist.\u201d Spotify didn\u2019t respond to Futurism\u2018s request for comment, but the \u201cKing Lizard\u201d account \u201cdisappeared\u201d after its story ran.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it\u2019s not just a Spotify problem. King Lizard Wizard\u2019s music is also available on YouTube, which apparently has the same moderation standards as the Big Green. The King Lizard Wizard songs on YouTube also credit Mackenzie with the lyrics and composition.<\/p>\n<p>King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in July over Spotify CEO Daniel Ek\u2019s investments in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/king-gizzard-wizard-lizard-pull-music-spotify-dr-evil-tech-bros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI military drone technology.<\/a>\u201d One of Ek\u2019s investment funds, Prima Materia, raised $600 million in funding for AI drone developer Helsing, of which Ek is also the chairman. Other artists, including Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu, also pulled their music, making similar accusations of war-profiteering against the company that\u2019s supposed to give people cheap music. \u201cAlthough the financial practices of all streaming services are acutely anti-musician, the actions of Spotify to use the profits they made from essentially stealing music in order to murder people to make even more money is almost beyond comprehension,\u201d Xiu Xiu wrote in a statement. But never mind that, what\u2019s Daniel Ek\u2019s listening age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mere months after Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard exited Spotify at full volume, the band\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-340533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}