Spotify should strengthen AI protections for artists and music producers with a series of measures, including an improvement in the application of identity violations, a new spam filtering system and AI disclosure for music with standard industry credits.
The giant in music streaming made this announcement in an article “For the record” Thursday on its website. “The rhythm of recent advances in AI generative technology has felt rapid and sometimes disturbing, especially for creatives,” the post begins. “To its best, AI unlocks new incredible ways for artists to create music and so that listeners discover it. At worst, AI can be used by bad players and content farms to confuse or deceive listeners, push their careers.
Spotify adds: “The future of the music industry is being written, and we believe that aggressive protection against the worst parts of the AI generation is essential to allow its potential for artists and producers. We are considering a future where artists and producers have control of how they incorporated listening to protect creative processes. Transparency on the music they hear. »»
With regard to details, on the issue of identity, Spotify has committed stronger rules and better application. “We have introduced a new identity policy that clarifies how we manage the assertions on the vocal clones of AI (and other forms of unauthorized vocal identity), which gives artists stronger protections and clearer remedies,” says society. “Vocal identity theft is only allowed in music on Spotify when the imitating artist has authorized use.”
In addition, Spotify said it increased “investments to protect against another identity tactic – where downloaders fraudulently provide music (generated by AI or otherwise) to the profile of another artist through streaming services”. In addition, the company said that it “tested new prevention tactics with the main distributors of artists to equip them to better stop these attacks at the source”.
Spotify hopes that its new spam filtering measures will reduce problems such as “mass downloads, duplicates, referencing hacks, artificially short track abuses and other forms of sloat” which have all become easier and more widespread due to AI tools. The new spam filter “will identify the downloads and the tracks that engage in these tactics, tag and stop recommending them.” The company claims that it will deploy a new filter of musical spam in the coming months and will be careful not to penalize the bad uploaders.
The third measurement of Spotify introduced is AI disclosure for music with standard industry credits. The AI being increasingly used in the music industry, the company wishes to increase the transparency of its use. “We know that using AI tools is increasingly a spectrum, not a binary, where artists and producers can choose to use AI to help certain parts of their productions and not others. The industry needs a nuanced approach to AI transparency, not forced to classify each song as “is AI” or “not AI”, explains Sprify.
Spotify says that it will help develop and support a new industry standard for AI disclosure in musical credits that are developed through the exchange of digital data, the international organization of standards. This AI disclosure information will be displayed on the Spotify application.
The new repression of the Spotify AI occurs despite the adoption of the company in other aspects of its activities. In February, Spotify said that he would accept more audio books on his platform thanks to a partnership with Elevenlabs.
However, the new AI measures will be welcomed by the main labels and fans after a number of recent reports of unornowgency AI artists accumulating thousands of rivers on Spotify. In July, The guardian reported that the group The Velvet Sundown has released two albums and accumulated more than a million flows on Spotfiy before being revealed that the group and its music were generated by AI.
“We are delighted The Hollywood Reporter. “We believe that AI presents enormous opportunities for artists and fans, which is why platforms, distributors and aggregators must adopt measures to protect the health of the musical ecosystem in order to flourish. These measures include content filtering; controls for violation of streaming and social platforms; Penalty systems for rehearsals in the chain service chain and certification of the service chain and the verification of names. To reach more fans, have more economic and creative opportunities and considerably reduce the sea of noise and the unrelevant content that threatens to drown the voices of artists. “”
