Spotify purges 50M AI-generated songs as industry draws line on synthetic music

Spotify removed roughly 50 million AI-generated tracks from its recommendation systems over the past year, signaling a major platform-level response to the flood of low-quality synthetic music. The move reflects a broader industry pushback, with even AI-enthusiast artists like Grimes and A$AP Rocky declining to produce AI content themselves. The scale of the purge underscores the scale of AI slop infiltrating streaming, but the long-term impact on artist economics and platform curation remains uncertain.

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