"AI-generated spam is becoming a problem for streaming platforms and musical artists because every play more than 30 seconds long generates a royalty for the scammer behind it and denies payment to a legitimate artist. The 75m spam tracks rival the scale of Spotify's actual catalogue, which stands at 100m tracks. Spotify also offers nearly 7m podcasts and 350,000 audiobooks."
"The company said it would start rolling out a music spam filter to identify uploaders, tag them and stop the tracks from being recommended by its algorithm. The company said AI tools had made it easier to generate spam content such as impersonations, ultra-short tracks and mass uploads of artificial music, which range from meditation instrumentals to duplicates of famous artists. Spam tactics have become easier to exploit as AI tools make it easier for anyone to generate large volumes of music, Spotify said."
Spotify removed 75 million spam tracks over the past year as powerful AI tools made it easier for fraudsters to create and mass-upload fake music. AI-generated spam ranges from impersonations and ultra-short tracks to duplicated songs and meditation instrumentals, and plays over 30 seconds generate royalties for scammers while denying payments to legitimate artists. The spam volume approaches the scale of the 100 million-track catalogue and was caught either by pre-upload filtering or removed after identification. A music spam filter will identify uploaders, tag them and block algorithmic recommendations. Reported engagement with AI music remains minimal and royalties paid were not seriously affected.
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