AI Slop Flooded Tidal So Hard the Streamer Cut Off Royalties for Fully Fake Songs

The generative music gold rush produced so much fraudulent garbage that a streaming service had to build a firewall against its own catalog. Tidal said artists uploading music wholly or substantially created using AI must label it as such, and those songs will not be eligible for royalties, with the policy taking effect July 15. The company said the move was sparked by listeners who do not want to hear wholly AI-generated music and by a flood of completely AI-generated tracks that often impersonate existing artists for financial gain. When the killer app for your revolutionary technology is bots strip-mining a royalty pool from dead-eyed fakes of real musicians, the platform demonetizing you is the closest thing to a review it will ever get. Variety on Tidal’s AI royalty ban