lmost 50,000 new songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. [1] The message is clear: everyone is welcome here. So when the Swedish company announced that it had excluded several thousand streams from its catalogue with immediate effect it came as a shock. All of the banned tracks were connected to AI start-up Boomy, whose algorithm is able to generate song elements from the most diverse styles for free use within a few seconds. [2] Spotify does not prohibit AI-composed works in principle. Rather, there were suspicions that ill-meaning users had created thousands of tracks with the help of Boomy and then streamed them using bots to help themselves to streaming royalties. [3] Machines listening to music written by machines? Unsurprisingly, the media were all over the
