Spotify will now tell you when an artist isn’t real
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Spotify labeling AI-generated artist personas and deranking them from default recommendations is a distribution decision, not just a UX tweak—algorithmic shelf space is being explicitly allocated between human and synthetic. If you’re building AI music or using synthetic voices, plan for segmented discovery channels rather than assuming parity with human catalogs.
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