Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop

How fake music targets real artists.

By Elizabeth Lopatto, a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.

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I first noticed something weird when a HEALTH album dropped on my Spotify new release radar. Except the cover design was funny — it didn’t look like a HEALTH album. 

And it wasn’t.

A screenshot of the fake Annie album, taken October 12th.

Some kind of AI slop had been uploaded to HEALTH’s artist page on Spotify, one of three fake albums that would appear under their name that weekend.

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