Spotify Cuts 75 Million Tracks It Identified as AI Slop or Spam

The number is blunt enough to do most of the work here. Tens of millions of tracks are not a moderation footnote; they suggest Spotify is dealing with an industrial-scale upload problem.

The language is striking too. “AI-generated slop or spam” is not the sort of antiseptic phrasing platforms usually prefer when they want to sound in control. It reads like an admission that a chunk of the catalog had crossed from mere abundance into obvious junk, and that Spotify wanted to be seen cutting it back.

Rolling Stone’s RSS report does not say how Spotify identified the tracks, whether artists or distributors could challenge removals, or how long the material had been on the service. But the reported figures alone show Spotify acting at a scale large enough to reshape what listeners are recommended, even beyond the tracks taken down entirely.