Spotify has been alerted to anomalies affecting AI-generated titles posted on its platform. And the response was quite brutal!
Artificial intelligence is not limited to the star chatbots that we keep hearing about, such as ChatGPT or even more recently Bard. It is also the possibility of generating musical titles in a few clicks, as we see more and more on Spotify. Except that some users would not respect the rules.
Tens of thousands of titles in the trash
With AI-generated music, there is an obvious potential issue: copyright. It was this question that led to the removal online of a song that cloned the voices of artists Drake and The Weeknd. But sometimes the problems have other origins, and especially affect a greater number of pieces.
It is a problem of this kind that has just been detected on the Spotify platform, where a report from Universal Music led to the withdrawal of tens of thousands of titles. These had been generated thanks to the AI developed by the company Boomy. The problem was in fact such that the number of deleted music would represent 7% of all the titles created by this AI present on Spotify.
Bots, always bots
But why, you ask? Well, the Swedish company would have noticed, thanks to the intervention of Universal Music, the use of bots in order to artificially increase the number of plays of these titles, thus making it possible to generate fraudulent income.
” When we identify or are alerted to potential instances of stream manipulation, we mitigate the impact by taking action which may include removing numbers from streams and withholding royalties. This allows us to protect the royalties paid to honest and hardworking artists “Spotify communicated.
For its part, Boomy announced that the titles generated by its artificial intelligence were again authorized on Spotify. The company also wanted to highlight its new importance in the world of music, 14.5 million songs having been produced using its technology, or nearly 14% of the music recorded in the world.
Source : Engadget
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