Artists have long criticized Spotify for its meager royalties system and its questionable content moderation practices. Now artists must contend with an entirely different problem: increased competition from AI-generated tracks, some of which have gained hundreds of thousands of listens.“There are multiple reports of [AI-generated music] being recommended to people, sometimes even hundreds of thousands of plays, or more,” says Ed Newton-Rex, former vice president of audio at Stability AI, who le...