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AI music has been flooding the internet for the past couple of years, with the number of AI-generated songs uploaded online growing each day. AI took over social media, with slop content polluting feeds at every corner. Music streaming platforms, too, couldn’t stop this wave, as thousands of tracks of questionable quality are being uploaded each day.
Spotify in particular has had a complicated relationship with AI music. On one hand, the company encourages AI-generated music on its platform, but at the same time, it has to preserve at least some quality standards. This conflict has led to Spotify deleting over 75 million tracks from its platform, according to the company’s executive in charge of global artists, marketing, and policy, Sam Duboff.
Duboff acknowledged the situation puts Spotify in a difficult spot, since there are what he called "blurred lines" around what counts as AI use in music these days. That ambiguity makes quality control messy, because the criteria of what makes AI music legitimate aren’t clearly defined.
Spotify isn't just fighting one type of problem either. Real artists are increasingly using AI tools in the studio as part of their normal workflow. As Big Tech continues to encourage artists to use more of its AI tools, that’s unlikely to stop anytime soon. On the contrary.
Duboff also noted that roughly 100,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify's servers every single day. The latest industry analysis says that roughly 44% of all music uploaded to streaming platforms is AI-generated. Even if that estimation is partially correct, that’s still tens of thousands of AI-generated songs uploaded to Spotify every day.
Part of what's driving that flood is just how easy AI music generation has become. Tools like Suno let anyone type a prompt and get a finished song back in seconds, while Google's own Lyria model powers similar music-generation features and is available as part of Gemini for everyone to use. Since not everyone is a professional artist, it’s clear where the issues with the quality of generated tracks lie.
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