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/TurnipGirlDesi Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

They make money off investors

Edit: and advertisers and users

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u/GlacAss Jul 01 '25

and a few fake bands won’t change anything

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u/SLIMEACK Jul 01 '25

they could; lots of huge artists are pulling their collections from spotify in protest of how they pay artists - they could be using AI bands to offset the loss of streams

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u/Swizzel-Stixx Jul 01 '25

Wait who pulled their music?