Spotify pulled 50M AI slop and spam tracks from recommendations
Spotify said Tuesday it has removed more than 50 million tracks it deemed AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year, and that it changed its recommendation system over the past six months to surface more music by human artists. The songs remain on the service but are no longer suggested by Spotify's algorithms or editors, the company said, adding that listener complaints about such content have since dropped. Spotify did not say how many of the 50 million were made with AI rather than other kinds of spam, and its detection combines listener behaviour, upload patterns, track metadata and third-party AI tools that it acknowledges have limitations.
The figures are Spotify's own and do not separate AI-generated tracks from other spam, but they show a major streaming service filtering AI content out of algorithm-driven recommendations while leaving the tracks online.
Spotify says it has taken more than 50 million AI-generated “slop” and spam tracks out of its recommendations this year, on top of 75 million spam tracks it has deleted. It found these were the tracks listeners skipped or rejected most. Spotify did not say how many of the 50 million were made with AI.
Spotify has taken more than 50 million AI-generated “slop” and spam tracks out of its recommendations this year, the company said on Tuesday. The songs are still on the service, but Spotify’s algorithms and editors no longer suggest them to listeners.
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