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“I can clearly tell you that this song is not Blaze... it’s kind of an AI schlock bot”: AI-generated songs have been appearing on dead artists’ Spotify pages

Spotify and AI.

It has been revealed that AI-generated songs have been appearing on the official Spotify pages of artists who died years ago, without the permission of their estates.

Shockingly, an investigation by the 404 website has shown that Blaze Foley, a country singer who passed away in 1989, supposedly released a new song, Together, last week. The song, which features a male country singer, sounds vaguely like a new country song, but it is clearly not Foley - that's according to Craig McDonald, the owner of Lost Art Records, which distributes Foley’s music and manages his Spotify page.

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