{"id":7322,"date":"2025-12-10T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/king-gizzard-responds-impersonated-ai-spotify\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:01:54","slug":"king-gizzard-responds-impersonated-ai-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/king-gizzard-responds-impersonated-ai-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Acclaimed Australian prog rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made headlines<\/a> earlier this year when it quit Spotify, protesting the platform\u2019s CEO, Daniel Ek, who heavily invested in an AI weapons company.<\/p>\n

The band was one of several music acts to pull their music from Spotify<\/a> over ethical concerns. Many of them have taken issue with artists earning very little money per stream on the platform, or the company donating a sizable sum<\/a> to president Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n

Next, something extremely dark happened: an impostor created a band on Spotify with the extremely similar band name of \u201cKing Lizard Wizard\u201d and used AI to generate songs with the same titles as actual King Gizzard songs that ripped off their entire lyrics and sound, accumulating tens of thousands of streams while remaining on the streaming service for weeks without detection.<\/p>\n

Outspoken King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard frontman Stu Mackenzie has now excoriated the platform after finding out about the ruse.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] trying to see the irony in this situation,\u201d he said in a statement quoted by The Music<\/em><\/a>. \u201cBut seriously wtf we are truly doomed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spotify has since pulled down the offending material, with a spokesperson telling Futurism<\/em> in a statement that it \u201cstrictly prohibits any form of artist impersonation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe content in question was removed for violating our platform policies, and no royalties were paid out for any streams generated,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

But the company\u2019s reactive cat-and-mouse game isn\u2019t exactly assuring artists, given Mackenzie\u2019s reaction. <\/p>\n

The incident highlights how Spotify is seriously struggling to keep AI slop at bay on its platform. While the company\u00a0announced new policies<\/a>\u00a0to protect artists against \u201cspam, impersonation, and deception\u201d in September, we continue to see offending AI impersonations landing in users\u2019 Release Radar and Discover Weekly playlists<\/a>, which the company prominently recommends to them.<\/p>\n

Worse yet, as \u00a0Platfomer<\/em>\u00a0reported last month<\/a>, a separate <\/em>King Gizzard impersonator had previously attempted to cash in on the band\u2019s royalties using AI \u2014 meaning that if there was one band that Spotify should have been manually screening for impostors, it should have been King Gizzard.<\/p>\n

In short, Spotify has a major PR headache to clean up as it reels from an onslaught of AI slop. <\/p>\n

And a growing number of artists<\/a>, including King Gizzard, have finally had enough and are looking for greener pastures. Who could blame them?<\/p>\n

More on the incident:<\/strong> King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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