Spotify Working With Music Labels On "Responsible" AI

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Spotify has announced it is teaming up with the world’s biggest music companies to develop “responsible” artificial intelligence products that respect artists’ copyright.

The market-leading music streamer is collaborating with the Sony, Universal and Warner music groups – whose combined rosters feature artists including Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift – to create new AI features.

Spotify did not give details of what the new products would entail, but the company said artists would not be forced to participate, and their copyright would not be violated.

Spotify, which has 276 million paying subscribers, said it had begun building a state-of-the-art generative AI research lab to create “breakthrough experiences” for fans and artists. The Stockholm-based company said the products would create new revenue streams for artists and songwriters, ensuring they are “properly compensated for uses of their work and transparently credited for their contributions”
 

Spotify is also partnering with Merlin, a digital rights company for independent record labels, and Believe, a French digital music label, as part of the AI collaboration. Spotify already uses AI to create playlists and a personalised DJ.

The heads of the three majors welcomed the agreement, with the chair of Sony Music Group, Rob Stringer, saying that there must “direct licensing” of artists’ work before a new product is launched. Universal’s Grainge said he wanted a “thriving commercial landscape” in which the music industry and tech companies could flourish. The head of Warner Music Group, Robert Kyncl, expressed approval for Spotify’s “thoughtful AI guardrails”.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/16/spotify-ai-products-partnering-multinational-music-companies

[Lord Mayhem 1,464]

Spotify has single handedly made it nearly impossible for any new indie artists to thrive and flourish in the music industry...

Disgusting this is the direction they're going because it's profitable for ALL royalties to go to a label instead of a real living human artist...

[Economy 50,538]

"Would not be forced to participate"

 

My only issue is capitalism does the same thing over and over and over again. Your told something is optional or a choice and technically it may be but in practice when something becomes the standard it forces you into it

 

You can be an artist without a record label but when everyone else has them helping promotion you end up needing them to compete

 

You dont have to pay for youtube ads but when other successful accounts use them you end up needing them to compete

 

Cell phones for each family member or home internet service was a luxury until world revolved around that connectivity and now you basically have to have it

 

I never trust major revolutions that are "optional". In the long run  they never end up being optional.

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[Evan Peters 10,756]

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