Overview
- Artists report AI-made songs appearing under their names on Spotify and Apple Music, including Emily Portman and The Sweet Enoughs’ Paul Bender.
- Scammers exploit third‑party distributors with little identity verification to place tracks on official profiles.
- Platforms cite scale and enforcement efforts: Spotify says it removed 75 million spam tracks, and Deezer estimates 50,000 AI songs are uploaded daily, over a third of its intake.
- Bender’s petition has gathered about 24,000 signatures urging tighter security, as takedowns can take from 24 hours to eight weeks.
- Industry responses diverge, with UMAW pushing a human‑only streaming royalty under the Living Wage for Musicians Act and iHeartRadio pledging not to air synthetic vocal impersonations.