Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
THE SO WHAT
Fifty million AI spam tracks getting pulled means recommendation systems are now content moderation systems at scale. Any platform that allows generative uploads needs an explicit anti-spam and provenance strategy or its core UX will quietly degrade.
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