{"id":282566,"date":"2025-07-22T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282566\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:11:10","slug":"ai-generated-songs-are-being-added-to-dead-musicians-pages-on-spotify-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282566\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated songs are being added to dead musicians’ pages on Spotify without permission"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI-generated songs are reportedly being uploaded to dead musicians\u2019 profiles on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a report by 404 Media,<\/a> this phenomenon was uncovered when they noticed Blaze Foley \u2013 a country musician best known for his track \u2018Clay Pigeons\u2019 \u2013 had released a new single called \u2018Together\u2019 last week.<\/p>\n

The track, which \u201cvaguely sounds like a new, slow country song\u201d, reportedly sounded very different from Foley\u2019s original work, who was murdered\u00a0in 1989.\u00a0Additionally, the single artwork appeared to be an AI-generated image of a man singing into a microphone<\/a> \u2013 who shares very little resemblance to the real Foley.<\/p>\n

Craig McDonald, who is in charge of distributing Foley\u2019s music and managing his Spotify page via his label Lost Art Records, said the song appeared on the artist\u2019s profile without permission. \u201cI can clearly tell you that this song is not Blaze, not anywhere near Blaze\u2019s style, at all,\u201d he told the publication. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of an AI schlock bot, if you will.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s harmful to Blaze\u2019s standing that this happened,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of surprising that Spotify doesn\u2019t have a security fix for this type of action, and I think the responsibility is all on Spotify. They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so. And I think they should take that responsibility and do something quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song has now been removed from Spotify; a spokesperson for the streaming platform told 404 Media in an email that the song had been \u201cremoved for violating our Deceptive Content policy\u201d. They also claimed that SoundOn, a company owned by TikTok, was the distributor of the song.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018Together\u2019 apparently had a copyright from a company called Syntax Error; 404 Media found that on Spotify, the same company had copyright over another AI-generated song and single cover called \u2018Happened To You\u2019. The song, which has now been removed, was uploaded to the page of cult country musician Guy Clark, who won the 2014 Grammy for Best Folk Album and died two years later.<\/p>\n

Syntax Error also appears to be behind \u2018With You\u2019, which was uploaded onto the platform on July 14 under living musician Dan Berk\u2019s name. The cover for \u2018With You\u2019<\/a> also features an AI-generated man singing, who looks nothing like Berk. According to 404 Media, Berk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

However, in a statement from a spokesperson for deepfake detection company Reality Defender<\/a>, all the above tracks \u201chave indicators that show a higher-than-normal probability of AI generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time AI music has been allowed on Spotify\u2019s platform. The seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown were reported to have over 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners<\/a> \u2013 despite existing for less than a month.<\/p>\n

Speculation continued to emerge after Redditors noticed their Instagram account look eerily AI-generated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, SZA has slammed AI users \u201ccodependent on a machine\u201d<\/a>: \u201cPlease Google how much energy and pollution it takes to run AI\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-generated songs are reportedly being uploaded to dead musicians\u2019 profiles on Spotify. In a report by 404 Media,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,4094,6603,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-country","11":"tag-spotify","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114897058947880942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}