Spotify removes over 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from recommendations

Spotify announced it has removed more than 50 million songs identified as AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. The company has updated its recommendation system to highlight music from human artists and states listener concerns about AI content have decreased since the changes. While Spotify stopped short of mandating labels on all AI tracks, it launched an "AI Persona" badge and will not recommend music from AI personas. The platform uses a combination of engagement, upload patterns, metadata, and third-party AI detection tools to identify such content.