Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations

Spotify says it removed more than 50 million tracks that it judged AI-generated slop or spam from recommendations over the past year, and changed its system to highlight music by human artists. It sorts candidates using listener engagement, upload patterns, metadata and outside AI-detection tools, and it will not recommend music from AI personas, though it does not label every AI track.

Summary written with AI by HowTechMoves, based on reporting by The Verge.