Comment by Cthulhu_

> I think Spotify (or its owners/investors) might actually benefit from recommending AI-generated music by not having to pay real artists.

You can remove the think and might; there were articles years ago saying Spotify actually commissioned artists to produce fairly generic songs for the highly played but passively listened to "background noise" playlists, so that Spotify would get the revenue / not pay real artists. I wouldn't be surprised if they replaced those commissioned productions with AI generated stuff to try and cut costs.