Regardless of Spotify’s efforts to crack down on AI clones, the streaming large continues to have an issue with artist impersonators. Within the newest instance, a Redditor has shared that they had been advisable a “dangerous AI ripoff” of Aussie psych rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, who famously left Spotify in July.
In a Reddit put up, Dipper_Pines wrote that Spotify advisable a band named “King Lizard Wizard” on their Launch Radar playlist. They described the music as “a nasty AI ripoff, from aesthetics to band title, copying their songs.”
Whereas the artist web page for “King Lizard Wizard” is now empty, Futurism experiences that the “clearly AI-generated” tracks shared titles and lyrics with actual King Gizzard songs. One add, “Rattlesnake,” reportedly featured similar lyrics and “notably comparable composition” to the unique model. The web page was reportedly reside on Spotify for weeks earlier than being pulled.
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This isn’t the primary time an impersonator has copied the band’s music since they pulled their discography off Spotify. Final month, Platformer identified {that a} separate King Gizzard clone employed the same technique to flood Spotify with muzak variations of the group’s songs.
King Gizzard made their determination to go away Spotify in response to experiences of CEO Daniel Ek’s funding in AI army expertise firm Helsing. Frontman Stu Mackenzie later informed the Los Angeles Occasions that King Gizzard and their musician buddies have been “saying fuck Spotify for years.” In a separate interview with The Guardian, he stated, “It was a choice about our music and a choice about what we predict is true and what we predict shouldn’t be proper.”
Spotify introduced in September that it had strengthened its insurance policies in opposition to AI voice clones and was rolling out an up to date music spam filter. Based mostly on this story alone, nonetheless, it seems the platform remains to be falling brief with its dealing with of AI-generated music.
For a deeper have a look at the trade’s present panorama, try our personal Kiana Fitzgerald’s current report on the figures behind AI-generated music.