It’s been clear for a while that a deluge of AI slop is drowning out real music and human artists on Spotify.

The platform has become overrun by bots and AI-spun trickery, which have actively been scamming revenue from real bands.

Earlier this year, a self-proclaimed “indie rock band” called The Velvet Sundown racked up millions of streams on the streaming service using AI-generated songs. Weeks later, the company was caught populating the profiles of long-dead artists with new AI-generated songs that have nothing to do with them.

Now Spotify has finally acknowledged the problem, announcing new policies to protect artists against “spam, impersonation, and deception.”

“At its worst, AI can be used by bad actors and content farms to confuse or deceive listeners, push ‘slop’ into the ecos

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