r/Music • u/Kaiser_Allen • Jun 28 '25

music "There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/theres-not-a-shred-of-evidence-on-the-internet-that-this-band-has-ever-existed-this-apparently-ai-generated-artist-is-racking-up-hundreds-of-thousands-of-spotify-streams
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u/drivermcgyver Tabloids!? GTFOH Jun 28 '25

Spotify will just start to generate AI bands so they won't have to pay royalties to anyone. I imagine that whomever creates these AI bands and submits them to spotify, will get the rights for creating the "art" that produced the music.

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u/JesusPlayingGolf Jun 28 '25

How do we know the fake band in the article wasn't generated by Spotify?

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u/FFLGO Jun 28 '25

Yeah. They will "start to" do that

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u/Kiriima Jun 28 '25

How long till no AI app that is basically old Spotify?

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u/rudimentary-north Jun 28 '25

It is already well-documented that they fill their playlists with stock music being made by fake artists.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

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u/drivermcgyver Tabloids!? GTFOH Jun 28 '25

Is there a reason they shouldn't be obligated to tell if an artist is real or not? I feel like if I'm listening to an artist, I should be told if that person is real or not. I feel that Spotify would be lying to its paying customers and providing content that people would assume is being played by a real person. They're misleading people into thinking that every artist is real at this point, IMO.

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u/rudimentary-north Jun 28 '25

They’re not in the business of connecting listeners with artists, they’re in the business of keeping users on their app.