Spotify removes tens of thousands of songs generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and reinforces its surveillance system to detect this type of files and fraudulent activities.

The platform has confirmed that these songs belonged to Boomy, a company that offers its users the possibility of creating songs from scratch and of various styles with AI. Created two years ago, this ‘startup’ ensures that its users can “create original songs in seconds” and that more than 14 million audio tracks have been developed with its technology.

A person familiar with the matter has assured the ‘Financial Times‘ that Spotify has removed around 7% of the tracks uploaded via Boomy, which equates to “tens of thousands of songs”after Universal Music Group alerted of strange behavior in the reproduction of these songs.

Specifically, a kind of “artificial transmission” was warned, that is, that the songs created by Boomy registered online ‘bots’ posing as listeners to increase their audiences, according to another source cited by the newspaper.

The platform, for its part, has confirmed to the newspaper that it has removed part of Boomy’s content and that it continues to work to delete everything that has been generated with AI of your service.

In the middle of last month Universal Music, which covers a large part of the record market, urged both Spotify and Apple Music to block the training of AI models, because with this they would be violating copyright of the songs they use.

It was not the first time that professionals in the sector expressed their concern about these practices, since a group of artists filed a lawsuit a few months ago against Stability AI, DevianArt and Midjourney for infringing copyrights, this time in works of art created with Stable Diffusion.