{"id":108909,"date":"2026-07-16T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/108909\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:48:07","slug":"lorde-calls-out-spotify-over-ai-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/108909\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde Calls Out Spotify Over AI Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLorde<\/a> called out Spotify<\/a> over the streaming service\u2019s \u201cAbout the Song\u201d AI feature on Thursday, after the AI shared incorrect information regarding the context of one of her songs. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say we don\u2019t want this,\u201d Lorde<\/a> wrote in an Instagram Story.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAbout the Song\u201d is an AI tool from Spotify that is currently in beta, released to limited users back in February. The tool scrapes third-party sources to compile additional information and context about individual tracks. In the case with Lorde, according to her screenshot, the AI appears to have pulled from the website themusic.com.au, writing that on her recent Ultrasound tour, the singer \u201cturns Current Affairs into a full-on performance piece, stripping down to underwear while a dancer pours water over her stomach so the song plays out like the shower scene she talks about on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t \u201cNot only is this inaccurate (not the song i did that in) but reducing a song to an ai generated meaning right at the source feels like it limits free interpretation imo,\u201d Lorde wrote. \u201cAt least make it possible for artists to opt out please.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tLorde\u2019s comment reflects the sensitivity that still surrounds AI among artists and creatives in the entertainment industry. SZA, for example, told I-D earlier this year <\/a>that she feels she\u2019s \u201cat war because of AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not up against the pop girls. I\u2019m not up against the R&B girls,\u201d SZA said. \u201cI\u2019m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy. The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can\u2019t even be prompted to fuck with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe issue reflects the widespread information issues tech companies\u2019 AI data-scrapers have run into. Google\u2019s AI summaries, for example, have faced similar criticism, with an April New York Times report <\/a>detailing that its AI answers take data from a wide range of sources, including news sites to Facebook posts, leaving at least room for error. In the end, these AI scrapers will only be as good as the data that feeds them.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked for comment, a spokesperson confirmed that \u201cthe text has been removed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAbout the Song\u201d is a beta feature that presents cited information from third-party sources,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe\u2019re continuing to improve it based on feedback from artists and fans.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorde called out Spotify over the streaming service\u2019s \u201cAbout the Song\u201d AI feature on Thursday, after the AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,56198,3146,11050],"class_list":["post-108909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-lorde","tag-music","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}