Spotify Launches Artist Profile Protection Against Fake

Call it the invasion of the stream snatchers. There's been a growing strange phenomenon taking place on the world’s biggest music platform. Artists who had left Spotify found that, within a few months, some of their and albums had reappeared within the app. At times, the tracks sounded like bad imitations of the original. At others, they sounded nothing like the original at all.  https://www.platformer.ne.. Regardless of their fidelity to the original, though, imitation tracks were racking up millions of streams — and generating revenue in the name of the authentic artist. this was particularly annoying to groups like the Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, which had quit Spotify on principle last year after news that then-Spotify CEO Daniel Ek led a €600 million investment in Helsing, which makes military drones and AI tools for weapons systems. They wanted their name and works off Spotify for good. They thought they had left. How were they supposed to police their presence on the platform, when they weren’t supposed to have a presence there at all? #Artificial Intelligence Spotify removed a host of impostor Gizzard tracks last year after Platformer inquired. Among the challenges, the company told me, is that AI-powered music apps are making it increasingly easy to generate convincing fakes.  But the larger question remained. Spotify creates strong financial incentives for this kind of domain squatting. Would the company intervene to stop it? On Tuesday, we got our answer. The company introduced a new feature in beta called artist profile protection designed to prevent what happened to King Gizzard from happening to anyone else. The company described how it works in a blog post https://artists.spotify.c..