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Spotify using AI to make new music from dead artists without permission

Spotify using AI to make new music from dead artists without permission

Séamus Bellamy
Jul 28, 2025
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Less than a month after The Velvet Sundown admitted that its music was nothing more than AI-generated trash, Spotify's been caught jamming the catalogs of dead artists with AI-created crap. No permission from the artists' families had been given before Spotify rolled the tunes out. The same applies to the labels of deceas…

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