Spotify Pledges AI Tools That ‘Will Not Replace Human Artistry’ as It Partners With Major Labels

Spotify is partnering with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin and Believe connected “artist-first” AI euphony tools, according to a blog post from Spotify. Little is known astir what generative AI models volition travel retired of this concern but the station notes that the institution has “already begun enactment connected the archetypal product” and that these forthcoming AI products volition “empower the artists and songwriters they correspond and link them with the fans who enactment them.”

As portion of the announcement, Spotify is touting 4 principles that it volition travel with its AI models to “put artists and songwriters” first.

It reads arsenic follows:

To make these forthcoming models, Spotify says successful its blog station that it has started gathering a state-of-the-art generative AI probe laboratory and merchandise team.

The quality comes conscionable weeks aft Spotify announced that it was strengthening its policies on antagonistic usage cases of AI-generated music. This includes updates to its spam, impersonation and contented mismatch policies, among others. The streaming work besides precocious announced an integration with ChatGPT, allowing users to amended personalize their opus and podcast recommendations.

See beneath for comments from apical euphony manufacture executives connected the caller agreement:

Alex Norström, co-president and main concern serviceman astatine Spotify: “Technology should ever service artists, not the different mode around. Our absorption astatine Spotify is making definite innovation supports artists by protecting their rights, respecting their originative choices, and creating caller ways for fans to observe and bask the euphony they love.”

Gustav Söderström, co-president and main merchandise and exertion serviceman at Spotify: “AI is the astir consequential exertion displacement since the smartphone, and it’s already reshaping however euphony is created and experienced. At Spotify, we privation to physique this aboriginal manus successful manus with the euphony industry, guided by wide principles and heavy respect for creators, conscionable arsenic we did successful the days of piracy. Our institution brings heavy probe expertise to this accidental and we’re actively increasing our AI team and capabilities to thrust the continued maturation of the full euphony ecosystem.”

Rob Stringer, president of Sony Music Group: “We are pleased to beryllium collaborating with Spotify to make liable generative AI offerings that broaden opportunities for artists and songwriters, whilst enhancing the euphony acquisition for fans. This is an acknowledgement that nonstop licensing successful beforehand of launching caller products is the lone due mode to physique them and demonstrates however a decently functioning marketplace benefits everyone successful the ecosystem and fuels innovation. We admit and applaud Spotify’s enactment astatine this captious period.”

Sir Lucian Grainge, president & CEO of Universal Music Group: “For respective years we’ve been driving initiatives with our partners to enactment artists astatine the halfway of the conve...