Spotify Axes Thousands of AI-Generated Songs From Boomy

Artificial intelligence aside, Spotify is cracking down on non-human-produced music by removing tens of thousands of tracks from Boomy. [their] We will enhance “creativity” through music that utilizes AI. Spotify has removed about 7% of all songs uploaded by Boomy. This amounts to “tens of thousands of songs,” a source close to the situation told Ars Technica. Boomy’s website claims to have created over 14.5 million tracks since its launch in 2018. This represents almost 14% of the world’s recorded music. However, Spotify has raised allegations that bots impersonating human listeners artificially increased the number of streams for his Boomy songs. “Artificial streaming is a longstanding industry-wide problem that Spotify is working to eradicate across its services,” the company said in a statement to Insider. Boomy claimed to be against “manipulative or artificial streaming of any kind” and said he was working with Spotify to restore inventory.