Tell HN: Spotify flooded with fake, AI generated artists playing the same tune

by achairapart on 9/1/2023, 1:20 PM with 1 comments

I was listening to some obscure artists radio on Spotify and spotted the same tune (with little variations) featured multiple times on the same playlist by different artist names/album covers, probably all AI generated.

I made a quick playlist with some of them:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0yN95wNVfKzGDS4vk9vGxN

Tracks are easy to spot as they are all the same lenght (1:37), but later Spotify also played/recommended a shorter version (1:08).

The evil idea here is to flood Spotify with maybe thousands of fake songs/artists to make some money from royalties.

For sure, it's a miserable experience for the listener and I fear it will only get worst.

  • by gatekpr on 9/1/2023, 1:50 PM

    This isn't just Spotify, sadly. YouTube music has offenders like this as well. So many times I've started a radio station from a song to hear sad covers of songs instead, completely a royalties/play count scam.

  • by yakorevivan on 9/1/2023, 1:45 PM

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