An AI startup has been accused of fraudulently boosting the listenership of AI-generated music with the use of streaming bots posing as human listeners., Spotify has taken down "tens of thousands," or roughly seven percent of songs uploaded by AI music startup Boomy, which generates tracks based on user inputs. These tracks can then be shared on Spotify where they can generate royalties.
While the AI generation of the music itself is arguably sketchy on an existential level, the issue on Spotify's end stems from "artificial streaming," which is when bot networks are "listening" to these tracks to artificially inflate the number of streams.reports, was raised to Spotify by record label Universal Music Group, which informed all the major streaming services that there was something fishy about Boomy's numbers.
As AI technologies progress and make it easier than ever before to generate music, companies are caught up in a game of cat and mouse as they try to keep up with an increasing number of agents trying to game the system.This latest AI debacle is the second time in recent months that UMG has waded into the AI-generated music debate.in response to a viral, AI-generated track that used a cloned version of Aubrey "Drake" Graham's voice.
"We are always encouraged when we see our partners exercise vigilance around the monitoring or activity on their platforms," said Nash.whopping 14.5 million songsIt's a worrying trend that could end up undermining the livelihoods of human artists, who receive only a
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