An AI copycat of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard went unnoticed on Spotify for weeks

Regardless of making some strikes to deal with the proliferation of AI-generated audio on its platform, Spotify did not catch a copycat making imitations of music by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The long-running experimental rock band from Australia, has been a vocal critic of Spotify and was one among a number of artists that took their music off the platform in the summertime. The transfer was in response to the discovery that outgoing CEO Daniel Ek was a number one investor in an AI-focused weapons and navy firm. At the moment, a poster on Reddit was beneficial what gave the impression to be an AI-generated copy of one of many band’s songs in Spotify’s Launch Radar playlist. The phony artist was referred to as King Lizard Wizard and it had an album of tracks all sharing titles with songs by the unique band and utilizing their unique lyrics. Futurism grabbed screenshots of the imposter, though it seems to have since been taken down; solely the band’s unique web page seems in searches for each their identify and the AI identify.

Nonetheless, the phony King Gizzard band’s album went unnoticed by the corporate for weeks earlier than at this time’s social submit surfaced it. The Reddit thread factors to a number of different anecdotal instances the place somebody tried to trick listeners with AI-generated variations of widespread bands. In September, Spotify unveiled a spam filter for catching AI slop, in addition to insurance policies for disclosing AI use within the content material it hosts and the way it could deal with AI impersonations. An occasion like this, significantly when it options an artist that had left the platform in protest, creates a fairly large query mark about how properly these insurance policies are working.