Terrence O'Brien

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The Vergecast · The problem with Suno and AI music · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And that's, you know, thankfully they're doing some work to like demonetize and keep it out of their algorithmic recommendations, which means people are going to listen to it less.

They won't put it in their curated playlists, but let's be fair.

Deezer and Cobas are small potatoes.

It does.

And I think, you know, Spotify is... Spotify's a weird case.

Again, having been covering this and following it for a while now, in some respects...

Spotify is doing more than Apple to clean up, you know, the AI spam and AI generated content from its platform.

Uh, Apple has seemed to have very little interest in addressing it at all.

Um,

And they've rolled out like a opt-in system where you can label it as AI or using AI if you want to, but it's not actually required and it doesn't change anything on the user end as far as I know.

I think of those things as like pinky promise systems.

And Spotify is doing something similar, but at the same time, also starting to roll out some more protections for artists themselves, where they're

They can require that uploaded music be manually approved before it hits their profile, which the fact that this wasn't a thing beforehand drives me insane.

The fact that literally anybody could just go on and upload music to a random artist's profile essentially is bonkers.

So they are doing some work.

I would say probably not enough still, but they're doing something.

But yes, they also, I think, are very excited about watering down the royalty distribution pool with a bunch of nonsense.

I think it is a fundamental and existential threat to your creative livelihood as an artist.

You know, there again, it's some of these things that sound good on paper, but essentially guts are.

the entire music industry middle class.

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