Just like the “verified” badge on Twitter eh?
I only care about this if they also have the functionality to block them from being recommended in any algorithms, or better yet prevent anyone from listening to it at all
Fuck Spotify. I’ll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.
Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.
Pfff, too late spotify. I’ve already switched to one of your competitors. Allowing AI “artists” at all is unacceptable. No sale.
Which competitor doesn’t allow them?
Bandcamp
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/
And unlike streaming sites, you own what you buy, and the artist gets paid much better; you’d have to stream the same song 200+ times with a premium Spotify account to generate the same profit for the artist as just buying the song outright on Bandcamp.
Yeah, but Bandcamp isn’t an alternative to Spotify.
It’s an alternative to streaming.
Sounds like it’s still an alternative!
not exactly a competitor since it’s a music marketplace, not a streaming service, but bandcamp does not allow ai-generated music
I’m using Qobuz. Seems alright so far, unless someone knows something I don’t (totally possible lol)
I get this when trying to setup an account on that site?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
They should have used a 💩 for the AI artists instead.
They should just not allow AI “artists” at all.
They’ve been using it as an infinite money glitch for awhile now. Make AI slop music and make a bunch of bots listen to it for the ad revenue. Nobody makes the music, nobody listens to the music, nobody listens to the ads, but Spotify gets paid. They’ll never crack down on this unless they themselves have to stop. Until than, they’ll just “assume” everything is made by people and play dumb when questioned.
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Which is what I find crazy. That money comes from advertising which is not endless. How are the advertisers able to show any semblance of ROI when nothing is passing through? Obviously Spotify doesn’t care if the proles voice their discontent. But how are they able to keep the advertisers from getting fed up with no returns?
I think in business attribution is really difficult. Like figuring out why a click/purchase happened. It might be that these systems are so opaque and difficult to penetrate that nobody notices when hundreds of millions are missing. Or maybe the actual situation is a little different, like maybe real people do listen to AI music. I’ve heard a bit about that anyway. Though I’ve also heard about organized criminals combining affiliated artists and bot listens to launder money.
This can’t possibly be profitable for the scammers.
Well okay then…and fuck Spotify anyway.
The pirate life is the only way to be. Take to the seas mateys!!
🏴☠️🏴☠️ Yarr!! 🏴☠️🏴☠️
And how long until they start accepting money from people to Verify their AI created garbage?
I assumed that was already the case here.
How are they “verifying” that it’s a flesh and blood human, and that the human doesn’t rely on AI? No digital method would work. You’d need to visit in person and have at least one other human witness them singing or playing without internet access.
See, that’s how you make actual users buy the badges. Now to be considered not AI you have to put money up. Who wins? Spotify does. And they don’t even have to make verification all that thorough, just enough to say they tried to filter out the worst of the bots.
