Spotify refuses to label AI music — so community trackers built a blacklist
spotify faces an influx of ai-generated music from tools like suno and udio that it fails to flag or label. independent tools like soullessmusic and sloptracker have stepped in to identify these ai artists, exposing how the lack of platform transparency deceives listeners and harms human musicians.
despite the surge in ai music generators like suno and udio flooding its platform with thousands of synthetic tracks, spotify does not label ai-generated content, unlike youtube. this policy gap has enabled deceptive acts such as the ai avatar 'slime dot' and 'qajar jazz' to accrue hundreds of thousands of listeners and generate revenue while posing as human artists. in response, third-party observers created tools like soullessmusic.com and sloptracker to manually identify and blacklist these ai-generated tracks to protect the ecosystem. the platform's failure to address this transparency issue actively facilitates fraud against artists and misleads consumers.