Spotify is continuing to grapple with a tidal wave of AI slop that’s frustrating its users.
While the company recently promised to address the issue of AI impersonators and content farms that “push ‘slop’ into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers,” the platform’s paying subscribers are increasingly fed up with being recommended slop.
A quick search on social media reveals that slop continues to find its way into users’ Discover Weekly, which are personalized playlists that refresh every Monday to serve them new music based on their listening habits.
“Discover Weekly is unusable now cause it is just full of AI slop,” one user complained on X-formerly-Twitter.
“Dear Spotify, please stop putting AI music in my Discover Weekly. Sincerely, everyone,” another wrote.
“I had no idea how bad it had gotten, since none of it was being shown to me,” one user wrote on the forum Hacker News. “Then a friend sent me his AI music on Spotify, I listened, and my recommendations were all AI for my usual genres suddenly.”
According to an August 2024 forum post on Spotify’s Community page, the issue has been around for well over a year now.
“It has gotten really bad lately,” a subscriber wrote in a December post. “This week’s Discover Weekly has four [AI-generated] songs in the first five entries. It makes me very sad that this garbage penetrates the recommended playlists of users.”
Many users threatened to jump ship and leave Spotify altogether as a result.
“Six songs out of 30 on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify were AI this week,” one user wrote in a Bluesky post. “Ridiculous that Spotify is pushing this crap on us. Looks like that’s it for Spotify.”
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