2023-05-10 11:37:42
Spotify has removed “tens of thousands” of songs generated by artificial intelligence (AI) platform and has strengthened its surveillance system to detect these types of files and fraudulent activities.
The streaming music service has confirmed that These songs belonged to Boomy, a company that offers its users the possibility of creating songs from scratch and of various styles with AI.
Created two years ago This ‘startup’, based in California (United States), ensures that its users can “create original songs in seconds” and that more than 14 million audio tracks have been developed with its technology.
A person familiar with the matter has assured the Financial Times that Spotify removed about 7 percent of the tracks uploaded through Boomy, which is equivalent to “tens of thousands of songs”, after Universal Music Group (UMG) alerted of strange behavior in the reproduction of these songs.
Specifically, a kind of “artificial transmission” was noticed, that is, that the songs created by Boomy registered online ‘bots’ that posed as listeners to increase their audiences, according to another source close to the situation.
The platform, for its part, has confirmed to this newspaper have removed some content from Boomy and that it continues to work to delete everything that has been generated with AI from its service.
It should be remembered that in the middle of last month Universal Music, which covers a good part of the recording market, urged both this platform and Apple Music to block the training of AI models, because with this they would be violating the copyright of the songs they use.
This was not the first time that professionals in the sector expressed concern about these practices, since a group of artists filed a lawsuit a few months ago against Stability AI, DevianArt and Midjourney for infringing copyright, this time in works of art created with Stable Diffusion.
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