{"id":1929606,"date":"2023-05-12T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fraud-concerns-force-spotify-to-remove-thousands-of-ai-generated-songs\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:02:19","slug":"fraud-concerns-force-spotify-to-remove-thousands-of-ai-generated-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fraud-concerns-force-spotify-to-remove-thousands-of-ai-generated-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify removes AI-generated songs due to fraud concerns."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffraud-concerns-force-spotify-to-remove-thousands-of-ai-generated-songs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Spotify Takes Action Against AI Music Start-Up Boomy<\/h2>\n<p>Streaming music giant Spotify has removed tens of thousands of songs from its platform in response to concerns over streaming fraud and clutter. The company has taken action against AI music start-up Boomy, which allows users to generate tracks automatically using different styles or descriptors. Spotify removed around seven percent of the tracks uploaded by Boomy, which were thought to have been artificially streamed by online bots posing as human listeners. The move comes as the music industry grapples with issues related to the growing trend of AI-generated songs and the subsequent manipulation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-of-the-dragon-nielsen-premiere-ratings-fare-worse-than-reruns-of-ncis-on-netflix\/\" title=\"\u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d Nielsen Premiere Ratings Fare Worse Than Reruns of \u201cNCIS\u201d on Netflix\">streaming data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Universal Music Alerts Streaming Platforms to Suspicious Activity<\/h3>\n<p>Universal Music, a major recording company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fraud-concerns-force-spotify-to-remove-thousands-of-ai-generated-songs\/\" title=\"Spotify removes AI-generated songs due to fraud concerns.\">alerted major streaming platforms<\/a> to suspicious streaming activity on Boomy tracks. To address the AI streaming problem affecting the entire industry, Spotify responded by removing the flagged content. \u201cArtificial streaming is a longstanding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-apology-amazon-admits-some-drivers-have-to-pee-in-bottles\/\" title=\"In Apology, Amazon Admits Some Drivers Have To Pee In Bottles\">industry-wide issue<\/a> that Spotify is working to stamp out across our service,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Generative AI<\/h3>\n<p>Universal\u2019s Chief Digital Officer, Michael Nash, praised the vigilance of streaming services, saying: \u201cWe are always encouraged when we see our partners exercise vigilance around the monitoring or activity on their platforms.\u201d The Chief Executive of Universal, Lucian Grainge, has voiced concerns about the abundance of music on websites like Spotify, where 100,000 new songs are added every day. Grainge cautioned that generative AI, if unchecked, will increase the volume of unwanted content on platforms and lead to problems with existing copyright laws.<\/p>\n<h3>Boomy Resumes Submitting Fresh Music to Spotify<\/h3>\n<p>Over the weekend, Boomy resumed submitting fresh music to Spotify, and it is currently negotiating the return of its catalog. The company emphasized its stance against manipulation and artificial streaming, asserting, \u201cBoomy is categorically against any type of manipulation or artificial streaming. We are working with industry partners to address this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spotify has removed tens of thousands of songs from its platform in response to concerns over streaming fraud and clutter.<\/li>\n<li>The company has taken action against AI music start-up Boomy, which allows users to generate tracks automatically using different styles or descriptors.<\/li>\n<li>Universal Music alerted major streaming platforms to suspicious streaming activity on Boomy tracks.<\/li>\n<li>The Chief Executive of Universal, Lucian Grainge, has voiced concerns about the abundance of music on websites like Spotify, where 100,000 new songs are added every day.<\/li>\n<li>Boomy is currently negotiating the return of its catalog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7c5d7c5c-5d5d-4c5d-9c5d-7d7d5c5d7c5d\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streaming music giant Spotify has taken action against AI music start-up Boomy, removing tens of thousands of songs from its platform amid growing concerns over streaming fraud and clutter. The Financial Times reports that amid growing worries about streaming fraud and cluttered playlists, Spotify has taken action against AI music start-up Boomy by removing tens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1929607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[15305,5241,6909,6190,16293,13549],"class_list":["post-1929606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-ai-generated","tag-concerns","tag-fraud","tag-removes","tag-songs","tag-spotify"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}