Spotify says AI slop is flooding your music feed, adds artist control tool

Spotify is testing Artist Profile Protection to let artists review songs before they appear on their profile testing a beta feature named Artist Profile Protection that adds a review step.

Artist Profile Protection adds a checkpoint that notifies artists and allows them to approve or block credited releases reviews releases that include an artist credit and prevents them from appearing on that profile if blocked or ignored.

Artist key introduces an artist key that lets trusted partners submit releases without manual review is a unique code that trusted partners can include to bypass manual review.

Beta program is currently limited to a small beta group and Spotify said it will refine the feature before expanding it is available to a limited group and will be refined before broader rollout; no timeline provided.

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