The fight against artificial intelligence filler on streaming platforms now has a bigger number attached to it. 

Spotify announced today that it has kept more than 50 million “slop and spam” tracks out of listeners’ recommendations so far this year. The figure arrived in a blog post checking in on the company’s AI protections, which it first laid out in September 2025. 

There is a catch, however. Those tracks were pulled from recommendations, but not necessarily wiped from the platform. The 50 million sit on top of the more than 75 million “spammy tracks” Spotify says it has removed entirely for serious or repeated rule violations, a number that has not changed since last September. “AI-generated slip and spam don’t belong in your recommendations,” the company said in their blog post. 

Spotify says spotting the junk takes more than AI detection software. The company also leans on listener feedback, upload patterns, and metadata, along with outside detection tools. It recently launched AI Credits and AI Persona badges to give listeners more transparency, though it acknowledges the work isn’t finished. 

Spotify is far from the only service reckoning with the issue. Over the summer, Tidal announced that AI generated music would not be eligible for royalties on its platform. Artists are drawing lines too, with Olivia Rodrigo recently saying she will never use AI in her music. 

For now, the slop is out of the recommendations, if not out of the building.