Spotify says it took down 75 million AI-generated songs in 2025, showing just how quickly AI-made audio spam has become a problem. Sam Duboff, who oversees marketing, policy, and music business at Spotify, shared the number as he talked about the company’s push to keep the platform clean.
Duboff says AI hasn’t invented new spam tricks; it has simply made the old ones much easier to pull off at scale. Around 100,000 tracks are uploaded to Spotify every day, and many are thought to come from AI music generators or custom-built tools. That’s why Spotify has a dedicated team looking for new ways spammers and scraping bots try to game the system.
According to Duboff, Spotify’s enforcement is focused on low-effort content created with minimal human input, often from a simple AI prompt. He added that AI-generated music is not automatically considered spam, as many artists use AI tools during the creative process. That makes it harder for platforms to distinguish between low-quality uploads and legitimate artistic experimentation.
Spotify has continued to adopt AI in its own business. Earlier this year, co-CEO Gustav Söderström said engineers are using AI agents to assist with much of their coding. The company has also said that AI tools approved by music labels can be used to create remixes and cover versions for commercial distribution on Spotify.
As generative AI becomes more common in music production. Industry groups like the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the Recording Industry Association of America have launched a voluntary labeling system to help listeners understand how a song was made. The labels separate fully AI-generated tracks from music where AI simply helped human artists during the creative process.
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