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/f10101 Jul 21 '25

The problem here isn't a "dead-artist-ai-song" issue. It's that there are no robust protections against someone uploading songs under your artist name, and hoovering up playtime until someone notices, a week or a month later.

It happens all the time, and has been happening since well before AI-gen songs..

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u/LateSoEarly Jul 22 '25

I was looking at my Release Radar on Friday and I was like “Oh cool, new release by Robert Wyatt!” Who is an artist from the Canterbury Scene from the late 60s into the 70s. I figured it was a previously unreleased recording or something. I looked at the album and it also had a feature by Soft Machine, a band from the same movement. The main artist on the album was “Spa Me Up”, which obviously makes generic AI generated ambient spa music. Why they chose to tag artists from the Canterbury Scene is beyond me, they’re nothing alike. I emailed both artists to let them know their names are being used but as of right now they’re still listed on this trash album. Absolutely should not be allowed.

There was a podcast about this sort of thing recently: https://www.searchengine.show/the-russian-cake-switcheroo/