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Spotify Removes 50 Million Tracks From Recommendations
· New York time
Spotify says it removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. It also says it changed its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists. The action concerns recommendations, not a stated removal of all those tracks from Spotify's catalog. That distinction affects what listeners encounter automatically versus what might remain available elsewhere on the service. The company is describing changes to the musical conveyor belt, not announcing that every unwanted box has left the warehouse. For listeners, recommendation quality is a central part of the product. Generating large quantities of audio is different from giving someone a worthwhile next song, and a platform has to decide what deserves that scarce place in the queue. Spotify's announcement describes an effort to prevent high-volume material from dominating that experience. It also shows how generative abundance creates a filtering business problem. A service can offer an enormous library and still need to protect people from the least useful parts of it. The futuristic music economy has rediscovered the old value of a selective DJ, except this one must inspect a pile of rejected tracks large enough to make the record store require a loading dock.
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