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In mid-2025, frustration boiled over for Cedrik Sixtus.
Key facts
- Widely suspected AI acts like Sienna Rose, Breaking Rust and The Velvet Sundown are treated like any other artists by Spotify, even as the platform removes what it considers AI-related spam such
- That AI music exists on a continuum does make labelling difficult, says Maya Ackerman, an expert in AI and computational creativity at Santa Clara University in California and co-founder and CEO
- Even detecting fully AI generated music can be fraught notes Bob Sturm, who studies AI's disruption of music at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden
- And certain AI-generated content is required to be labelled from August 2026 under the EU AI Act; though how Spotify will implement those rules remains unclear
Summary
Finding his Spotify playlists increasingly sprinkled with tracks he suspected were AI generated, the Leipzig-based software developer built a tool to automatically label and block them from his listening. He uploaded his Spotify AI Blocker to a couple of code-sharing websites, where hundreds have downloaded it. It filters out a growing list of more than 4,700 suspected AI artists, drawing on already existing community tracking efforts, and signs like unusually high release volumes and AI-style cover art, supplemented with external detection tools. "It is about choice, if you want to hear AI music or if you don't," says Sixtus who would prefer Spotify labelled and enabled filtering of AI-generated content itself.