This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Elizabeth Lopatto, writing at The Verge: To understand how this works, you need a sense of the mechanics. Streaming platforms like Spotify don’t work like your Facebook page — Mena and other artists aren’t logging in and adding albums to their accounts directly. Instead, they go through a distributor that handles licensing, metadata, and royalty payments. Distributors send songs and metadata in bulk to the streaming services. The metadata part is important; it includes things such as the song title and artist name but also other information, such as the songwriter, record label, and so on. This is crucial for artists (and others) to get paid. But this whole process effectively works on the honor system. And: “It was super weird,” says Marcos Mena, Standards’ lead songwriter and guitarist. “I thought, ‘Oh, this is something Spotify will take care of.’” After all, Standards has a verified artist page. But when a fake album was posted on September 26th, it didn’t budge. Mena emailed Spotify to tell them there’d been a mistake. The streamer responded two weeks later, on October 8th: “It looks like the content is mapped correctly to the artist’s page. If you require further assistance, please contact your music provider. Please do not reply to this message.” As of November 8th, the fake Standards album was still right there under the band’s verified, blue-checked name. It was finally removed by November 11th. Cool, I definitely don’t see this continuing to be a massive problem. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos and other embedded content.
One of my clients had this problem. A weird AI-generated version of the Star-Spangled Banner with very offputting album art was parked on his Spotify and YouTube pages for about a month before we successfully bullied the distributor into fixing it.
The honor system......in today's world? We still have people who can't even return their shopping carts to the damn cart corals.
I believe this is happening to Forest Green. Their Spotify page has been being regularly filled with fake releases that sound like AI all this year.