{"id":341647,"date":"2025-12-10T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341647\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:00:07","slug":"king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-respond-to-spotify-impersonator-we-are-truly-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341647\/","title":{"rendered":"King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Respond to Spotify Impersonator: \u201cWe Are Truly Doomed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of uncredited <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/32633-king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard<\/a> covers have been removed from Spotify after gaining traction through the platform\u2019s algorithms and recommendation engines, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Futurism reports<\/a>. Apparently generated by artificial intelligence, the songs were uploaded to an artist page called King Lizard Wizard and appeared in users\u2019 Release Radars before the platform took action. King Gizzard frontperson Stu Mackenzie said in a statement to <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/themusic.com.au\/news\/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-spotify-respond-ai-impersonator-streaming\/62xR__7h4OM\/09-12-25\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/themusic.com.au\/news\/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-spotify-respond-ai-impersonator-streaming\/62xR__7h4OM\/09-12-25&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/themusic.com.au\/news\/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-spotify-respond-ai-impersonator-streaming\/62xR__7h4OM\/09-12-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Music<\/a> that he was \u201ctrying to see the irony in this situation.\u201d He added, \u201cBut seriously wtf we are truly doomed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Easy access to AI song generators has compounded the influx of AI slop\u2014or AI \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/haven-i-run-poised-hit-ai-deepfake-allegations-slowed\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/haven-i-run-poised-hit-ai-deepfake-allegations-slowed\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/haven-i-run-poised-hit-ai-deepfake-allegations-slowed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deepfakes<\/a>\u201d\u2014to streaming platforms this year. The King Gizzard rip-offs are particularly craven: This year, the band became the highest-profile to date to <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-leave-spotify\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pull<\/a> its music from Spotify in protest of Daniel Ek\u2019s military investments.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify said in a statement to Digital Music News, \u201cSpotify strictly prohibits any form of artist impersonation. The content in question was removed for violating our platform policies, and no royalties were paid out for any streams generated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitchfork has emailed a representative for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of uncredited King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard covers have been removed from Spotify after gaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,171442,3,14065,777],"class_list":{"0":"post-341647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","13":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341647","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=341647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}