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Spotify wants AI-generated artists to identify themselves, so the next time a random lo-fi track on the streaming platform feels too perfectly engineered for productivity, it may come with an official notice: this musician has never experienced heartbreak, Lagos traffic, or opened their banking app and remembered that “rent is due.”

Worse, Spotify says it will limit how aggressively those tracks show up in your song recommendations, so if you’ve actually been enjoying AI music, brace yourself.

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