{"id":5500,"date":"2025-09-26T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bon-iver-side-project-ai-slop-spotify\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:34:15","slug":"bon-iver-side-project-ai-slop-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bon-iver-side-project-ai-slop-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Iver Side Project\u2019s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Longtime fans of Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon will recall Volcano Choir, an acclaimed side project he spearheaded in the 2000s and early 2010s that hasn\u2019t released an album since 2013\u2019s \u201cRepave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suddenly interrupting that long dormancy is a new single<\/a> titled \u201cSilkymoon Light,\u201d which appeared on Volcano Choir\u2019s Spotify page this week with no fanfare from the band or its label.<\/p>\n

The only issue? The track bears all of the hallmarks of cheaply-produced AI slop, featuring no intro and diving straight into a cheesy and forgettable country-inflected ballad. It features a robotic-sounding voice with only a distant resemblance to Vernon\u2019s distinctive vocals.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur love will always find a way,\u201d the voice sings in the track, in an almost mockingly poor imitation of Vernon\u2019s musical caliber.<\/p>\n

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The album art also looks suspiciously AI-generated, featuring a Moon with a smaller Moon in the background, as well as the overall shellacked look characteristic of AI slop.<\/p>\n

A screenshot of the single, titled \"Silkymoon Light,\" on Spotify<\/figure>\n

Volcano Choir\u2019s most recent album, titled \u201cRepave,\u201d was released in September 2013 and the group has been on hiatus since the end of its last tour<\/a> in November 2014. Bon Iver and Vernon have remained in the public view with a series of widely-praised releases and collaborations with artists including Taylor Swift and Travis Scott.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the news comes just days after Spotify officially admitted<\/a> it was being overrun by AI \u201cslop.\u201d The platform announced new policies<\/a> to protect artists against \u201cspam, impersonation, and deception.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company also made headlines earlier this year after a self-proclaimed \u201cindie rock band\u201d called The Velvet Sundown<\/a> racked up millions of streams<\/a>, which later turned out to be an entirely AI-generated \u201choax<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt its worst, AI can be used by bad actors and content farms to confuse or deceive listeners, push \u2018slop\u2019 into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers,\u201d the company wrote in a press release<\/a> this week. \u201cThat kind of harmful AI content degrades the user experience for listeners and often attempts to divert royalties to bad actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

To combat AI slop, the company said it\u2019s looking to roll out a new spam filter that can detect common tactics used by spammers to game Spotify\u2019s royalties system.<\/p>\n

But judging by Volcano Choir\u2019s latest \u201crelease,\u201d the company is still struggling to combat a deluge of AI trickery: beyond the fact that whoever\u2019s behind the track managed to get it featured on Volcano Choir\u2019s official artist profile, there\u2019s no indication that it was produced using AI.<\/p>\n

Spotify isn\u2019t the only platform to be duped, though. The single also currently features on Volcano Choir\u2019s profile on Tidal<\/a> and Deezer<\/a> \u2014 though not Apple Music, interestingly.<\/p>\n

After we reached out to Spotify with questions about the suspicious single, the company removed the track from Volcano Choir\u2019s page.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re aware of this issue and have removed the content,\u201d a Spotify spokesperson told us in a statement. \u201cThat change should be reflected on the platform soon. Across the music industry, AI is accelerating many of the problems that already exist \u2014 e.g. spam, fraud, and deceptive content \u2014 which is why we recently announced new policies aimed at making Spotify a more transparent, fair, and trustworthy platform for artists and listeners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause music flows through a complex supply chain of labels and distributors, bad actors can sometimes exploit gaps in the system to push incorrect content onto artist profiles,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cWe\u2019re testing new prevention tactics with leading artist distributors to equip them to better stop these attacks at the source, and investing more resources into our content mismatch process, reducing the wait time for review, and enabling artists to report \u2018mismatch\u2019 even in the pre-release state.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are \u201cLuddites\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Bon Iver Side Project\u2019s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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