AI music floods Spotify via loophole

a researcher created a song using the ai music generator udio with a simple prompt and released it on lathe of heaven's official spotify page, as well as on its apple music, tidal, and amazon music pages, without the band's knowledge. the researcher exploited a loophole in digital music distribution by creating an account with distrokid, a digital music distributor, for $3.75 a month, and uploaded the track. the loophole has existed for years and is widely abused by scammers who create ai-generated music and collect royalties by piggybacking on real artists' popularity. spotify and digital music distributors are not taking responsibility for the problem, which is more likely to affect lesser-known artists or artists who are no longer alive.