Overview

• A new identity‑misuse policy permits AI voice imitation only with explicit permission from the affected artist, with reporting tools to contest unauthorized copies.
• Spotify will roll out a music‑spam filter this autumn to flag mass uploads, near‑duplicate or ultra‑short tracks, and pull such content from algorithmic recommendations.
• The spam system will launch gradually with additional signals over time to reduce false positives and avoid penalizing legitimate creators.
• Spotify will support a DDEX‑based standard so labels and distributors can submit how AI was used, which the app will display in track credits once data is provided by partners including DistroKid, CD Baby and Believe.
• Spotify reports removing more than 75 million spam tracks in the past year; separately, Deezer labels fully AI‑generated songs and excludes them from recommendations, noting they recently made up over 28% of daily uploads but about 0.5% of plays.