r/Music • u/ebradio • Jul 21 '25

music Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/
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u/Dead-O_Comics Jul 21 '25

I'm about halfway through my Discover Weekly for this week, so far 3 songs are AI generated.

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u/noodlyarms Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

Is there any good give-it-away clues for this when they randomly pop up in the que? 

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u/Dead-O_Comics Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

The songs are pretty formless, and a lot of them don't end, they just stop dead, with a slight echo.

Here's two examples - Notice that the single artwork is a generic template and both exactly a minute thirty long:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0p1A3VVzFlLofoTNfRhw78?si=c7vgPZs4TGSOFppi9k9zOA

https://open.spotify.com/track/3CGLWDqekGf8aLlFYYOdj4?si=gnCkcvnASe--6nB7BeIrkA

I have more examples but honestly, I don't want to give them the listen counts.

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u/noodlyarms Jul 21 '25

Interesting, thanks. Guess I haven't seemingly come across any of those yet, but I listen to somewhat niche, lyrical heavy genres. That stuff sounds like generic hotel lobby music, could see it slipping in if you're listening to chill/lo-fi stuff though.

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u/Dead-O_Comics Jul 21 '25

Well for context I've been listening to a lot of instrumental stuff: Mogwai, Boards of Canada, DJ Shadow, Max Cooper, Nathan Fake... so these suggestions feel way off for my tastes.

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u/theeTangenT Jul 23 '25

Goated Nathan Fake

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u/fluxien Jul 22 '25

Your tastes are quite good, imho.

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u/Dead-O_Comics Jul 22 '25

Haha thanks. I thought that saying I had AI music in my Discover Weekly might have been a self report

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u/GingerIsTheBestSpice Jul 22 '25

I use lo fi to fall asleep. It's all lo fi girl, so hopefully it's all real artists still. I'll see the same names pop up but there's no lyrics or distinctive sound that would let me know it wasn't, it's just against my humanity to reward ai music.