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Spotify Clears Some Traffic From the Recommendation Lane
· New York time
Spotify says it removed more than 50 million tracks considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. It also announced recommendation changes to highlight more music made by human artists. The action concerns recommendations, the selections listeners encounter when an algorithm chooses what to present next. That makes filtering a central part of the listening experience, alongside the size of the available catalog. Cheap, abundant production increases the importance of distinguishing worthwhile selections from content that simply exists in enormous quantities. The modern jukebox has an unusual maintenance problem: it does not run out of songs. It risks becoming so full that finding something worth hearing requires a cleanup operation with eight digits in its workload.
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