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Spotify’s New Verify Badge Will Call Out AI-Generated Slop

Spotify’s changes are welcome news for those who don’t want to be tricked into listening to AI pretending to be human.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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The Velvet Sundown was just the first major band to make it into the mainstream headlines. After running up a huge number of listens on Spotify with no particularly compelling evidence that the band had ever played a live show or even been seen by another human being, the puppet master behind the AI-generated band finally admitted they were nothing more than AI, but not after a viciously self-pitying social media campaign decrying themselves as victims of the world.

“Themselves.” Or itself. Or whatever it was, as at least one person was behind the reins of the blandly derivative, AI-generated songs. We haven’t seen the last of AI-generated music........

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