Spotify is letting artists manually approve releases to combat AI fakes

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Artist Profile Protection adds a layer of review before music goes live. Artist Profile Protection adds a layer of review before music goes live. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Spotify is beta-testing a new feature called Artist Profile Protection that lets artists review releases before they go live. Sometimes songs end up on the wrong artist pages because of metadata mixups or shared names. But increasingly, artists have been targeted by impostors and AI-generated fakes. Profile Protection offers a buffer against bad actors. Everyone from Drake and Beyoncé, to experimental composers like William Basinski, and indie rock acts like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, have had fake tracks appear under their names on streaming platforms, with some that were likely AI-generated. It’s an