
"Spotify is continuing to grapple with a tidal wave of AI slop that's frustrating its users. While the company recently promised to address the issue of AI impersonators and content farms that "push 'slop' into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers," the platform's paying subscribers are increasingly fed up with being recommended slop. A quick search on social media reveals that slop continues to find its way into users' Discover Weekly, which are personalized playlists that refresh every Monday to serve them new music based on their listening habits. "Discover Weekly is unusable now cause it is just full of AI slop," one user complained on X-formerly-Twitter."
""This week's Discover Weekly has four [AI-generated] songs in the first five entries. It makes me very sad that this garbage penetrates the recommended playlists of users." Many users threatened to jump ship and leave Spotify altogether as a result. "Six songs out of 30 on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify were AI this week," one user wrote in a Bluesky post. "Ridiculous that Spotify is pushing this crap on us. Looks like that's it for Spotify.""
Spotify's recommendation algorithm is surfacing significant amounts of AI-generated music in personalized playlists, particularly Discover Weekly, causing widespread subscriber frustration. AI impersonators and content farms are injecting low-quality tracks that alter users' recommendation profiles and penetrate top slots of weekly playlists. Users report sudden shifts to AI songs after exposure to shared tracks, and some report multiple AI tracks among the first entries of playlists. Several subscribers threatened to cancel Premium subscriptions in response. The issue has persisted for over a year, prompting user complaints across social platforms and calls for stronger platform action to protect authentic artists and listener experience.
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