Absolutely fucked up and they have no clue.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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Bahahahahaha.... Man. They still don't get it.
Just like the "verified" badge on Twitter eh?
Pfff, too late spotify. I've already switched to one of your competitors. Allowing AI "artists" at all is unacceptable. No sale.
How was the switching process?
I've a family account that's fully utilised so if I move I have to drag everyone with me.
Yeah, nice try. I still block Spotify on all my devices.
Which competitor doesn't allow them?
Bandcamp
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/
And unlike streaming sites, you own what you buy, and the artist gets paid much better; you'd have to stream the same song 200+ times with a premium Spotify account to generate the same profit for the artist as just buying the song outright on Bandcamp.
Yeah, but Bandcamp isn't an alternative to Spotify.
It's an alternative to streaming.
Sounds like it's still an alternative!
I'm using Qobuz. Seems alright so far, unless someone knows something I don't (totally possible lol)
Qobuz is probably the one streaming service I would pay for if they sorted out the huge gaps in their available library.
I've been using Qobuz for a few months and it's pretty good. They had a rough bug a couple of weeks ago where some songs would stop playing and skip to the next one, but it seems to be resolved.
If you go into settings, you can hook it to last.fm and get lots of cool listening stats.
Qobuz still had a lot of music slop 2 months ago. They promised to clean that up but I'm not sure if they really did it.
I get this when trying to setup an account on that site?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
not exactly a competitor since it’s a music marketplace, not a streaming service, but bandcamp does not allow ai-generated music
They should have used a 💩 for the AI artists instead.
They should just not allow AI "artists" at all.
They've been using it as an infinite money glitch for awhile now. Make AI slop music and make a bunch of bots listen to it for the ad revenue. Nobody makes the music, nobody listens to the music, nobody listens to the ads, but Spotify gets paid. They'll never crack down on this unless they themselves have to stop. Until than, they'll just "assume" everything is made by people and play dumb when questioned.
For the people asking “but who will buy ther products/services after they replace us with AI?’, this is the answer. It hasn’t mattered for a while now
Which is what I find crazy. That money comes from advertising which is not endless. How are the advertisers able to show any semblance of ROI when nothing is passing through? Obviously Spotify doesn't care if the proles voice their discontent. But how are they able to keep the advertisers from getting fed up with no returns?
I think in business attribution is really difficult. Like figuring out why a click/purchase happened. It might be that these systems are so opaque and difficult to penetrate that nobody notices when hundreds of millions are missing. Or maybe the actual situation is a little different, like maybe real people do listen to AI music. I've heard a bit about that anyway. Though I've also heard about organized criminals combining affiliated artists and bot listens to launder money.
This can't possibly be profitable for the scammers.
Fuck Spotify. I'll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.
Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.
I only care about this if they also have the functionality to block them from being recommended in any algorithms, or better yet prevent anyone from listening to it at all
or better yet prevent anyone from listening to it at all
So you're advocating for top down control when it comes to consumption of online media rather than letting people choose for themselves?
top down control
That ship has sailed the moment the user made a Spotify account
And how long until they start accepting money from people to Verify their AI created garbage?
I assumed that was already the case here.
Well okay then..and fuck Spotify anyway.
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How are they "verifying" that it's a flesh and blood human, and that the human doesn't rely on AI? No digital method would work. You'd need to visit in person and have at least one other human witness them singing or playing without internet access.
See, that's how you make actual users buy the badges. Now to be considered not AI you have to put money up. Who wins? Spotify does. And they don't even have to make verification all that thorough, just enough to say they tried to filter out the worst of the bots.