Scammers Insert AI Songs on Real Artists' Spotify and Other Platform Pages

According to 404 Media, scammers use distributors like DistroKid to upload AI-generated tracks to real musicians' pages on Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal to collect royalties. The band Odette Child found over 300 such songs, including Taylor Swift fakes. Spotify is testing a pre-release review tool.

• 404 Media uploaded a fake track to Lathe of Heaven's page in 5 minutes
• Odette Child found over 300 AI songs under real artists' names
• About 50,000 AI tracks are uploaded to Spotify daily
• Spotify is testing release review, still in limited beta