Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
Spotify announced it has removed over 50 million AI-generated slop and spam tracks from its recommendation engine over the past year. The platform adjusted its algorithms to highlight human-made music and introduced an AI Persona badge for non-human artists.
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Spotify says it has removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. That’s according to an announcement on Tuesday, which says Spotify has also made changes to its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists.
“Our editors hold the same standard and don’t program content identified as slop or spam,” Spotify says. “Since we made these changes, we’ve seen a marked decrease in listener concerns about this content showing up in recommendations.”
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