Artificial intelligence continues to be on everyone’s lips, and even more so in the music scene. weeks ago fake song Heart on my sleevewhich were created with this tool and which imitated the sounds of Drake and The Weekend, have been removed from Spotify and Apple Music.
Now it is Swedish giant flow My voice tens of thousands of have been erased Songs submitted by Amnesty International after receiving complaints about attempted fraud. Regarding his withdrawal from the platform, according to CountryThe company is defending that this decision was made due to a trap using that music to collect royalties on behalf of fraudulent accounts. Another notable case was the song created by artificial intelligence imitating singer Frank Ocean.
This ‘war’ that Spotify is now waging against AI-generated music is due to Detect suspicious activity in Boomy Songs, An emerging music company that relies on artificial intelligence and produces music tracks without the intervention of artists. As mentioned financial timesIt was Universal Music who gave the alert and in Spotify’s case, pulled 7% of Boomy’s songs available on the platform.
Added to all of this is the fraudulent business spawned in the music collector community on Discord, where scammers have particularly exploited songs that may have leaked before their official release. In his statements to the portal ‘Vice’, a fraudster admitted to selling the leaked songs from Composer Frank Ocean, for the amount of approximately 9,000 euros.
On the other hand, the portal detailed that in underground forums, music collectors privately buy tracks they think have been leaked from their favorite artists, or participate in “group purchases” on Discord to obtain the necessary funds. in this occasion, The scammers “play” with fans of the American singer-songwriter What they expected with the new release of idols and collectors.
Spotify measures to avoid similar situations
From Boomy they confirmed that flow Artifacts are a known industry issue that Spotify is working to “completely remove from our service”. In addition, he indicated some of the measures that the Swedish company intends to implement to avoid similar cases in the future, and among them Reducing the number of copies due to being tampered withwithholding royalties or remove such bloated content by bots.
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