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Comment by threepts

6 hours ago

No one is forcing you to listen to Spotify. You are free to buy a turntable and play all the non-sloppy music.

Seeing the popularity of some AI songs, people DO want to hear to this sort of music.

i pay to listen to music now i have to not use discovery mode because spotify wants to earn more money by pushing ai slop to its listeners to not have to pay real artists

  • > because spotify wants to earn more money by pushing ai slop to its listeners

    If people listen to AI songs, how does Spotify get a bigger cut, as you seem to be suggesting [1]? Or are you suggesting that Spotify is generating/has rights to this music?

    [1] https://artists.spotify.com/royalties-guide

  • AI slop is quite antithetical to Spotify's business model, they would actually lose money if say tomorrow, AI music dominates the charts, when AI music gets that good, people can just generate their own music and leave Spotify back in the mud.

    It's probably the "AI artists" themselves generating false engagement and manipulating the algo for discovery.