They should have used a 💩 for the AI artists instead.
They should just not allow AI “artists” at all.
Pfff, too late spotify. I’ve already switched to one of your competitors. Allowing AI “artists” at all is unacceptable. No sale.
Which competitor doesn’t allow them?
Bandcamp
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/
And unlike streaming sites, you own what you buy, and the artist gets paid much better; you’d have to stream the same song 200+ times with a premium Spotify account to generate the same profit for the artist as just buying the song outright on Bandcamp.
Yeah, but Bandcamp isn’t an alternative to Spotify.
It’s an alternative to streaming.
Sounds like it’s still an alternative!
I’m using Qobuz. Seems alright so far, unless someone knows something I don’t (totally possible lol)
Qobuz is probably the one streaming service I would pay for if they sorted out the huge gaps in their available library.
I get this when trying to setup an account on that site?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
allowing Palantir and supporting ice was my cutoff… I had premium for years…
worse was how suddenly my playlists I listened to often, the songs started sounding different/wrong… turns out they were silent swapping them for AI cover versions…
How was the switching process?
I’ve a family account that’s fully utilised so if I move I have to drag everyone with me.
They’ve been using it as an infinite money glitch for awhile now. Make AI slop music and make a bunch of bots listen to it for the ad revenue. Nobody makes the music, nobody listens to the music, nobody listens to the ads, but Spotify gets paid. They’ll never crack down on this unless they themselves have to stop. Until than, they’ll just “assume” everything is made by people and play dumb when questioned.
Which is what I find crazy. That money comes from advertising which is not endless. How are the advertisers able to show any semblance of ROI when nothing is passing through? Obviously Spotify doesn’t care if the proles voice their discontent. But how are they able to keep the advertisers from getting fed up with no returns?
I think in business attribution is really difficult. Like figuring out why a click/purchase happened. It might be that these systems are so opaque and difficult to penetrate that nobody notices when hundreds of millions are missing. Or maybe the actual situation is a little different, like maybe real people do listen to AI music. I’ve heard a bit about that anyway. Though I’ve also heard about organized criminals combining affiliated artists and bot listens to launder money.
I think that it is less about the ad revenue and more about decreasing the total proportion of streams that they have to pay royalties for. Spotify pays people to churn out AI music that they own, and they place that music on their popular playlists (to increase plus from actual listeners) and also have bot armies streaming it endlessly. Since royalties are not a fixed per-play fee, but rather a calculation based on the total amount of subscriber money divided by the total number of plays, massively increasing the total play count with music that does not require royalty payments means they pay out a lower proportion of what they take in each month.
For the people asking “but who will buy ther products/services after they replace us with AI?’, this is the answer. It hasn’t mattered for a while now
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This can’t possibly be profitable for the scammers.
How are they “verifying” that it’s a flesh and blood human, and that the human doesn’t rely on AI? No digital method would work. You’d need to visit in person and have at least one other human witness them singing or playing without internet access.
Just like the “verified” badge on Twitter eh?
Does Linkin Park get a badge? Has anyone ever proven that Linkin Park is human? All their songs sound suspiciously the same…
What about Nickelback?
Well okay then…and fuck Spotify anyway.
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Absolutely fucked up and they have no clue.
