Listening to The Velvet Sundown’s newest release, some users of Spotify users love hearing the guitar strings and the satisfying vocals in the music. With over 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, fans are enjoying these new songs while working, chilling, and studying. However, what most of these fans don’t know is that this seemingly normal band actually isn’t real at all. Behind the screen, a prompt being filled into a chat bar generated the song within one minute, shorter than the length of the song itself.
While most artists an excessive amount of time and spend months, if not years, and lots of money to on making new releases, AI allows users to some can generate songs quickly and cost efficiently. with basically no cost or time spent, which This is prompting a mass apocalypse of AI songs, leading . This takeover of AI music creators on Spotify has led to outrage among Spotify listeners. This prompted the company to implement a mandatory AI-label for creators using AI in their music that incorporate Artificial Intelligence into their songs, coming next month.
If an artist is found to have incorporated AI into their content, through an automated screening and human moderators, a tag reading “AI Persona” will show up next to their name. These artists also have the option to self-disclose AI’s involvement in their music. However, many doubt that they will do so, which deems the automatic check necessary. Even with this update, many argue that Spotify is not doing enough to minimize AI generated music on the app. The company also announced that they will “tune [their] algorithms to highlight authentic human artists and… strive to not include spam, slop or low-effort content in our recommendations.”
Despite Spotify’s efforts, Before the Artificial Intelligence epidemic, users were enjoying their songs without worrying whether it was made by a real person or not. Now, they’re annoyed by the amount of AI on the platform. Even if Spotify is changing things, many listeners people believe that the easiest solution would to be get rid of AI on the platform entirely. Spotify has responded to the criticism by stating that AI artists are not violating their rules, so it isn’t necessary to ban them from the platform. While Spotify continues to update their app, users can trust that they can listen to real songs, by real people, just by looking at their profile.