Stockholm: Digital music service Spotify has removed 7% of the songs published by AI music company Boomy after Universal Music brought suspicious bot activities to attention. Spotify removed the Ai music content by Boomy to mitigate the effects of streaming manipulation.
According to the Dutch–American multinational music corporation, there were suspicious activities picking pace around Boomy's content, especially in terms of listener figures. Universal Music reached out to Spotify to notify streaming manipulation and pointed out that bots could be bringing more listener count and earning more money. Streaming manipulation often leads to the wrongful collection of royalty fees and an unwanted state of hyper-competition.
Michael Nash, the chief digital officer of Universal Music, confirmed the development to Financial Times and said that the 1934-launched music label strongly encourages vigilance by media platforms being kept clean and well monitored. "Artificial streaming is a longstanding, industry-wide issue that Spotify is working to stamp out across our service," said the FT report.
The sudden rise of AI-generated content has been bothersome for many in the music industry.
A report in Bloomberg said: "Music's disruptive future risks looking a lot like its past: noisy and unequal. Record labels aren't entirely wrong in asking streaming platforms to clean house in favour of more human music. But this is also a good moment to think up fairer ways to distribute the streaming spoils and keep new human artists emerging. If whales are about to become a musically endangered species, what hope is there for the rest of us?"