Spotify: Here’s what made Spotify remove thousands of AI-made songs

Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in popularity. From writing articles and images to singing, generative AI is finding increasing use online. Recently, the music industry witnessed a ruckus with AI bots training themselves with songs to churning out music that sounded like popular artists. These AI-generated songs have been shown on various streaming platforms, including: SpotifyA Swedish company is removing tens of thousands of AI-generated songs from its platform.
Spotify removed 7% of songs created by AI music startup, according to The Financial Times report boomyThis percentage equates to “tens of thousands” of songs, and the company has also stepped up its efforts to curb such incidents.
“Artificial streaming is a longstanding industry-wide problem that Spotify is working to eradicate across our services,” the company was quoted as saying.of AI-song Removed due to suspected “artificial streaming” of bots masquerading as listeners.

Crackdown from April
On May 1, Boomy said in a statement on its Discord server Boomy that Spotify had stopped uploading songs to its DSP, removing some of the tracks that had already been uploaded, according to a report from Music Business Worldwide. said.
“Most recently, Spotify stopped publishing new releases from Boomy. In addition, certain catalog releases were removed from the platform. ,” the company is quoted as saying.
Spotify says removing AI-generated songs allows the company to “protect royalty payments for honest and hardworking artists.”

“If we are identified or warned of potential cases of stream manipulation, we will take steps that may include removing streaming numbers and withholding royalties to mitigate the impact,” the music streaming company said. There is
AI ‘raises serious questions’
According to an earlier report in the Financial Times, universal music group (UMG) is Spotify and appleto block AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from copyrighted songs.
Citing an email sent by the company, the report said, “We will not hesitate to take steps to protect our rights and those of our artists.

“This next-generation technology poses significant problems. [generative AI] I am trained in popular music. You can say you want the lyrics to sound like Taylor Swift, the vocals to sound like Bruno Mars, and the themes to sound more like Harry Styles. The output obtained is due to the fact that the AI ​​was trained on the intellectual property of those artists,” a person close to the situation was quoted as saying.
Earlier this year, AI-generated video clips surfaced on social media in which several artists were seen singing cover versions of other artists’ songs. This prompted major record labels to pursue his AI-generated songs.