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\n\tUnder new rules Spotify<\/a> announced today, an AI<\/a> \u201cband\u201d like the now-infamous Velvet Sundown<\/a> will still be allowed on the service, but would be encouraged to label itself properly from the start. Overall, Spotify has zero intention of eliminating AI-generated music from its service, execs said Tuesday, in a press conference announcing its new guidelines. At the same time, the company said it\u2019s waging war against a flood of low-quality AI content, removing more than 75 million \u201cspammy\u201d tracks in the past 12 months alone.<\/p>\n \n\tThere\u2019s no question that in the wake of the rise of services such as Suno<\/a> \u2014 which allow near-instant generation<\/a> of new songs \u2014\u00a0AI-generated music is deluging streaming services. Spotify competitor Deezer has said that approximately 28 percent of daily uploads are fully AI-generated music, though those tracks account for a mere 0.5 percent of actual streams. But even as Spotify aims to curb the impact of that onslaught, they\u2019re signaling that AI music is here to stay.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not here to punish artists for using AI authentically and responsibly,\u201d said Charlie Hellman, Spotify\u2019s VP global head of music product. <\/strong>\u201cWe hope that artists\u2019 use of AI production tools will enable them to be more creative than ever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSpotify is most concerned about \u201cmass uploads, duplicates, SEO hacks, artificially short track abuse, and other forms of slop,\u201d according to a blog post from the company. Accordingly, it\u2019s rolling out a new spam filter to flag uploaders engaging in those practices, and thus \u201chelp prevent spammers from generating royalties that could be otherwise distributed to professional artists and songwriters.\u201d The company will stop short of removing those tracks, though, instead simply making them ineligible for recommendation by the streamer\u2019s algorithm. The company will still have no rules in place against boosting AI-generated songs in general.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe platform will encourage, but apparently not mandate, that artists label their AI usage via a new industry standard developed through DDEX \u2014 a long-standing non-profit that creates technical standards for song metadata across platforms. The idea is that artists will specify their precise uses of generative AI, ranging from fully prompt-generated songs to human-made songs with AI-tweaked lyrics. The approach treats AI use as \u201ca spectrum, not a binary,\u201d said Sam Duboff, Spotify\u2019s global head of marketing and policy, music business.<\/p>\n