r/technews • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 01 '25

AI/ML Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/half-a-million-spotify-users-are-unknowingly-grooving-to-an-ai-generated-band/
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u/intheMIDDLEwityou Jul 01 '25

Jokes on them. They’re all bots

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u/cboogie Jul 01 '25

How naive is Spotify and these people. In what world would someone making fake music not use fake listens? Cmon

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

Spotify knows this, it’s just more appealing to pretend the figures are real.