Spotify says it removed more than 50 million tracks classified as AI-generated spam or low-quality “slop” from its recommendation system during the past year. The company also adjusted recommendations to give more prominence to music made by human artists.
Identification combines listener behavior and feedback, upload patterns, metadata, and third-party AI-detection tools. Spotify says user complaints about this material declined after the changes, though it did not publish detailed error rates for the detection system.
The service has not required a label on every song that uses AI. Instead, it introduced an “AI Persona” badge for artist identities that do not represent a real person and says those acts will not be recommended. Human editorial playlists follow the same exclusion policy for spam and slop.
Other platforms have chosen different boundaries: YouTube Music labels AI songs, Deezer offers a filter, and Bandcamp bans AI-generated music. Spotify separately removed more than 75 million tracks identified as spam last year, so the new figure should not be read as a count of all AI-assisted music on the platform.