Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop

A new album would appear on an artist’s Spotify page, bearing their name but no similarity to their music.

This all raised an obvious question: Why? Given the history of scams on Spotify , I think the answer is money.

Spotify takes the word that you are who you say you are, and there, there, and boom.

Fake Standards album is on Gupta Music , a marketing agency rep reps entertainment companies including Disney Music Group , Republic Records , and Sony Music .

If enough people stream the album, the royalties will flow straight to Gupta Music along with the payout from hundreds of other releases full of slop.

Spotify confirmed that the onslaught of AI garbage was delivered from one source, Ameritz Music .

$2 billion to $3 billion is stolen from artists through this kind of fraud every year , says Andrew Batey .

A sophisticated fraud operation will use multiple fake labels and multiple distributors in order to avoid having a single point of failure.

Problems with metadata have existed for years — some of them innocent, some less so.