IT Home In an announcement on October 21, Spotify stated on Tuesday, local time, that over the past year the platform has removed more than 50 million songs from users' recommendation streams that were identified as low-quality AI-generated spam or artificial-streaming tracks, while also adjusting its recommendation system to prioritize music by real human creators.
Spotify stated: "The platform's editorial team applies the same standards and will not include tracks judged to be low-quality AI spam or padding content in recommendation streams." "After making these adjustments, complaints from listeners about such content appearing in recommendation streams have dropped significantly."
According to IT Home, Spotify has not required all AI tracks to be forcibly labeled, but has introduced an "AI Persona" label for creators who use virtual AI identities rather than being real people, and it will not recommend music created by such AI personas. Other music streaming platforms have taken stricter policies toward AI music: YouTube Music adds labels to AI songs; Deezer allows users to filter out low-quality AI music themselves; and Bandcamp outright bans AI music from being listed.
Spotify said the platform comprehensively uses user listening behavior and feedback, upload characteristics, metadata, and third-party AI detection tools to determine whether a track is a low-quality AI-generated spam work. The company said last year that it had taken down more than 75 million songs identified as spam content. Meanwhile, Spotify is working with Universal Music Group and independent music distributor Believe to launch a tool for creating AI music remixes.