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They've started adding AI music to the catalog by themselves via fake accounts, resulting in them keeping 100% of the revenue, as there's no artist they need to pay any longer. Now they can move away from paid lyrics, to preserve some of their public image.
That's interesting! I hadn't heard of it. Can you provide a source for that?
Its unconfirmed that Spotify is doing this, but it makes the most sense. Why else would spotify curated playlists be full of ai slop?
Drew Gooden and Gabi Belle on youtube have both recently put out videos detailing how ai is ruining the internet and they both bring up this spotify controversy.
Well, for starters the word of some random YouTubers is not proof, not even remotely. And second, it doesn't make sense as you said it does. I don't know if you've heard the stage at which AI music is right now, but let me tell you it's not good, let alone capable of passing as human-made music. So you are, in fact, spreading bullshit.
I disagree. AI music is shockingly good at sounding like real music. Just a couple months ago a popular producer sampled an ai generated song without knowing it.
In that same article you linked it later says King Willonius, the comedian who produced it, literally wrote the lyrics himself . He literally said (and quoted in the article) 'I think it’s a misconception that people think AI wrote ‘BBL Drizzy'. Then it goes on to talk about how AI may be used for sampling, rather than to create new songs, but spends a couple of paragraphs talking about how it's complicated because of copyright law. And in the end, the song, BBL Drizzy, got pulled from Spotify because AI was used in its production. That directly contradicts OP first comment. I do agree with you that AI is better than I first thought at music, but it's far from perfect. But in any case, thinking that Spotify right now is secretly implanting AI songs is still bonkers (and without proof besides some random YouTube video).
Well the songs that the YouTube videos mention are all instrumental so the lyrics aren’t necessary.
Are they?