Spotify is being flooded with AI-generated music, ghost artists, and fake tracks appearing on real musicians’ pages. What’s going on behind the algorithm? We investigate.
00:00 – AI Music Is Hijacking Spotify
01:18 – Real Artists, Fake Tracks: The Sweet Enoughs Case
04:06 – The Scam Economy of AI Slop
06:01 – Spotify’s Business Model: Exploit, Deny, Repeat
07:33 – Ghost Artists & Royalty-Free Fakery
09:00 – Spotify’s History of this behaviour
11:56 – How to tell if it’s AI Music
13:08 – Growth At All Costs
15:49 – How to Fix It (And Why Spotify Won’t)
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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.