He said: “You can imagine someone uploading a song, claiming to be Madonna, even if they’re not. We’ve seen pretty much everything in the history of Spotify at this point with people trying to game our system.
“We have a very large team that is working on exactly these types of issues.”
AI is not banned in all forms on Spotify, but the platform currently does not allow its content to be used to train a machine or AI model, the likes of which can then produce music.
The aforementioned AI track mimicking Drake and The Weeknd was submitted for Grammy consideration in two categories: Best Rap Song and Song Of The Year – both of which go to the writer of a song, not the performer.
‘Heart On My Sleeve’, written and produced by the anonymous producer Ghostwriter, was initially said to be eligible on creative grounds because it was an original composition written and recorded by a human.
But one of the requirements for submission was that the song must be “available nationwide via brick-and-mortar stores, third-party online retailers and/or streaming services”.
This term came as a stumbling block due to the fake collaboration being banned by the Universal Music Group (UMG) shortly after it first surfaced online.
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