Spotify is drawing a new boundary in the rapidly expanding world of AI-generated music. After mounting frustration from listeners who discovered that seemingly human artists were actually artificial personas,

Next month, a new label intended for AI music personas, will appear on Spotify. The Swedish streaming platform will label AI-generated music and remove the tracks from users' personal recommendations.

Spotify, one of the largest streaming companies in the world, says it will soon start labeling AI profiles posing as human artists.

It's no secret that Spotify is the dominant player in the music streaming market, with 293 million paid subscribers and 761 million monthly active users across both paid and free tiers. Along with massive market dominance has come a fair bit of controversy in recent years.

Music fan Leon Keenan, 20, also supported the labelling system. He said AI-generated music should not necessarily be removed from Spotify, but listeners should be told clearly when they are hearing it. Ellie Sumner, 21, said the label was necessary. She said she had previously failed to realise that some content was AI-generated.

Music streaming platform creates ‘AI persona’ label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performers

Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by default.

As the AI era threatens to lay further siege to Spotify, the streaming service is drawing a line in the sand in the battle against AI slop artists. Spotify is rolling out a new label next month for accounts on the platform that appear to be AI generated,

Stamped on artist profiles, it'll help listeners figure out who's an AI musician, and who isn't.