Spotify has removed more than 50 million tracks it describes as “AI-generated slop and spam” from its recommendations, according to disclosures reported by Music Business Worldwide. The company said the removals came in the year since it announced AI protections.
Spotify said the 50 million tracks were in addition to 75 million “spammy tracks” it had removed in recent years.
Recommendation changes and detection
In a post on its website, Spotify said it reviewed tracks listeners were skipping, ignoring or telling the company they did not want to hear, and found they were consistently identified as slop or spam. “Since we made these changes, we’ve seen a marked decrease in listener concerns about this content showing up in recommendations,” the company said.
Spotify said “No single signal catches slop or spam on its own,” and that it combines listener engagement and feedback, upload patterns, metadata and information from multiple third-party AI detection tools. It also said it looks for new tactics, including mass uploads, duplicates, SEO manipulation, spammy playlist networks and artificially short tracks.
Spotify has embraced AI in other areas. In 2025, it partnered with ElevenLabs to expand its offering of AI-narrated audiobooks. Critics have said the company has not been vigilant enough in removing AI fakes of deceased artists and shutting down musical impersonators, an issue that affected King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, which left the service in 2025 in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI drone technology.
Source: Consequence
