The fight against artificial streaming is nothing new for Spotify and for the music industry in general. In recent years, streaming platforms have taken increasingly stringent measures to prevent fraudulent practices and ensure proper distribution of royalties to rights holders. The fraudulent use of bots to inflate playback data led to Spotify removing “tens of thousands” of AI-generated tracks on the platform.
The purge begins on Spotify: the AI generates thousands of songs and the streaming service deletes them. Here's what happened
Universal Music, one of the largest record labels in the world, had reported suspicious streaming activity on some tracks on boomy. The removal of these songs was necessary to curb the widespread practice of "artificial streaming". Boomy's song generation system uses artificial intelligence technology, which allows users to create music tracks according to their tastes and preferences. However, the widespread diffusion of this technology has given rise to numerous fraudulent practices, such as the use of bots to falsify the number of plays.
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Spotify has confirmed that it has removed some of Boomy's content and said it is committed to fighting fraudulent practices such as artificial streaming. The music industry is facing numerous challenges, including the growing amount of songs that are uploaded daily on streaming platformsas well as the manipulation of data relating to song plays.
The potential of artificial intelligence is enormous, and only the future will tell us what impact it will have on the music industry and other creative endeavors. Boomy, for example, said it is working with its music industry partners to find a solution to the problem of artificial streaming. The problem of artificial streaming still appears to be widespread and poses a threat to the music industry. According to some estimates, artificial streaming could cost the music industry billions of dollars each year, due to the distribution of royalties based on falsified data.
Source | The Financial Times
