YouTube Music users voice growing concern over AI-generated songs in their recommendations

With AI-generated content having flooded the internet, YouTube Music users are the latest to face the wrath of the songs that have AI written all over them. Many YouTube Music users even have pointed out that disliking the content doesn’t help and they continue to see the songs generated by AI tools in their feed with no way to block them out. Additionally, identifying artists that are uploading AI-generated songs is also difficult at surface level.

Several posts have appeared on Reddit's r/YouTubeMusic complaining about AI-generated songs disrupting their ability to discover new artists and songs via the platform's recommended feed and playlists. The lack of disclaimers about a song being AI-generated has also frustrated users.

One Reddit user u/GrammmyNorma said, “Nearly every other song in the autoplay queue is an AI generated slop song with a handful of plays. I have no idea how to fix this other than going back to Spotify. I have tried wiping my watch/search history, restarting my subscription, clearing app cache. I have probably sent 10+ feedback reports/community help posts about these issues.”

Some have also highlighted that the rise of AI-generated music is visible on Spotify and Amazon Music as well.

So far, no such complaints have been reported about Apple Music.

 The rise of AI-generated songs on streaming platforms comes at a time when a large number of musicians and record labels are fighting lawsuits against AI companies for allegedly using their work to train models.