Spotify and DistroKid's NEW Generative AI Tagging (is it enough?)

I dont care about whining musicians and artists talking about blood, sweat and tears during the creation process.
If I like a song, I like the song, even if someone wrote it and produced it in five minutes.
AI is cool.

I don't think it's enough, it's still just self reported. I think we need AI detection on top of this and Spotify needs a separate playlist for AI only tracks.

Interesting, I don't have this section in DistroKid at all.

This is honestly a descent ai song

https://youtu.be/Rgbjfv0qh84?si=ysi8E4wF853LWHmr

Look no artist will claim AI anything. Most deny even using Autotune for their singing and music, most deny lip synching during live preformaces.
Most artist buy there lyrics out write, then claim they wrote them. Most buy their music out right then claim they wrote it.
Fact is most artist today are performers, not lyricist or song writers.
There's nothing wrong with that, the fact that we as a society have became so pompusasses over this, tells me that we have bigger issues
then rather or not something is AI

I think the clarification of composition feature is a nice idea, but still no good.
As an AI artist (and traditional musiciain) I can tell you, from what I've seen over two years, honesty isn't a hallmark of many (not all, not most) AI creators, especially regarding lyrics. Another awful habit are the claims of "my own vocals, my own playing, my own melody" that are blatant at worst, questionable at best.

If we policed ourselves a little better, we wouldn't need 3rd party babysitting.

Popular artist are all using AI for sure. 😅

Wait wait how can Distro not want AI mixing or mastering when Distrokid offers the service to master with AI?!?!

No one who cares about art want to see or listen to AI generated crap.

Full disclosure is always better.

An aside but my major problem with AI in the arts is that inherently, it kneecaps the progress of artistic vision. There's so much beauty to me in how different people interpret different sounds, and the different experience sets we combine to express ourselves. By definition, AI art is an expression of assimilation, not experience; anyone can make anything and it's not really "them." I DO see it's utility as a tool, and I don't even think it makes objectively bad art (if the user is themselves has taste). That said, it's really hard to justify making art if it's purely a vanity project--which when you're on 15 listeners a month and not growing, it is.

I want a "mainstream radio slop" tag. J

Pay per play questionnaire: Is money involved for promotion? How much money? Does the distributor/DSP have special contracts with the label? Does a label hold stocks in the DSP? J

Are we human Or are we chancers?

People complaining about tagging AI-generated music may be missing the core issue in U.S. copyright law. The Supreme Court did not say that all AI-generated art or music can never be monetized. Rather, on March 2, 2026, it declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving in place the rule that a work created solely by AI cannot receive copyright protection because copyright requires human authorship.

That distinction matters. U.S. copyright law exists to protect human creators so they can control, license, and profit from their work. If a person uses AI as a tool and contributes meaningful creative authorship, that is one question. But if someone generates music entirely through AI, claims full authorship, and sells it as though it were their own protected work, they may be stepping into legal risk, especially if the output copies or closely imitates protected material.

That is why platforms and creators are scrambling to label AI-generated content. They are not only trying to be transparent; they are trying to avoid lawsuits, false authorship claims, and copyright disputes.

I understand why people are emotional about this. Some feel AI has finally unlocked their creativity. Others spent years learning the craft of music, art, and storytelling, and they see AI as a threat to the value of that work. Both reactions make sense. The better path is not to erase either camp, but to draw a clear line: AI can exist, but it should not bankrupt or exploit the human creators copyright law was built to protect.

Use AI to detect AI lol 😂 😂

I write my own lyrics and use Suno to create a song because I can't sing and don't know any musicians, and no one gives a crap that I spent days writing a song because I disclosed I used AI to make the song; they instantly hate it. Why the hell bother writing lyrics?
Some of them are really good too, so I get it to an extent.

i am just learning how to use Suno and make them sound better, but the app is helping me live a dream of making songs with my words, so it's a good thing in my eyes. i do disclose the process and so i guess people have a choice if they want to listen or not. 😆

The amount of people crying in the comments and making silly comparisons like "hey but weren't you using samples"? Samples are the ingredients in the kitchen: if you use them nicely to cook, you're the cook. If you sit and tell your mama to cook, and then call yourself a chef, you're a cheat. IT's time for you, ai "creators", to say: I am a random dude sitting in front of SUNO and telling it to make a song.: I am not a producer, I am not a musician, I am not an artist, I am not a creator, I can't even tell C from D on a keyboard. At least now you'll be forced to pay some respect to all the people who spent 10 years to learn how to use a daw or an instrument. And don't give me the samples and the loops bs. You know exactely you're talking non-sense just because you're having too much fun disguising yourself for an "artists" when you're just telling a robot what to do. OVER

great video, thanks for this

Are we human, or are we dancer?

I'm a hybrid music producer. I write lyrics, then use Suno to create the music and vocals. I'm experimenting with Suno voices to see if I can get an acceptable version of my own voice to perform the lead vocals. I really can't sing, so that may be a reach. For now, I specify type of music, voice, instruments, often running through multiple iterations to get what I want. I write prompts for Suno, rewrite them multiple times to get a song that I feel is true to the lyrics I wrote. After that the stems go into Logic Pro for mixing and mastering. I'm no expect at either but I give it my best shot. I'd love to be working with a composer and then actual performers. I use the line that I'm a Bernie Taupin looking for my Elton John and there is truth in that. I'm not claiming my lyrics are as good as Taupin's, I wish! I love what I producing with AI and people are starting to listen. I've been transparent since the beginning about my use of AI. At the end of the day, I don't think most people care whether a song has AI elements, what they care about is what songs they connect with.

Does this song use auto-tune or pitch correction on the vocals? Did you use EZ Drummer, Superior Drummer, Addictive Drums, or have a real drummer play? What did you use? Did you use compressors and reverb delays? Splice samples, Apple Loops, or other samples. Where did you get that kick drum sample from? Did you edit the guitar parts? Where do we draw the line on this stuff? Honestly, I think for myself, I’m gonna start disclosing every tool, every plug-in chain that I use for every song. Obviously, you can't do that when uploading to streaming services, but you can put your information on YouTube or your website.

Hi. How can Distrokid verify that the song lyrics were generated by AI? If I use Suno to simply paste my lyrics and style and press create, no one can tell I didn't write the lyrics.

Hey I kind of got a LTE based off of what you said I just thought about it It might not be good for the industry but a small artist he can't afford a production team wasn't going to pay them anyway so it really isn't that big a deal that they use AI The problem would be if the major labels felt it was cheaper to use AI and just stop paying production teams that they used in the past

So its like the artist marking its own homework, why would someone who made a suno track say this is AI? and who even gives a fuck, all i care about is if the music is good. Its all bullshit, if a song gets streamed the one who owns the song should get paid. It would be the same when a drum computer or synthesizer came out, existing musicians make a problem of it and dont call it music. I use AI to write programs, where as i have been doing it manual the last 20 years, i can write more code. now people can write music faster, if musicians dont want to go ahead and adapt to modern times then thye deserve to lose income. And as for suno stealing every musician music is also stupid, humans diud they same, they listened to other peoples music, studied how music theory worked etc....all 'stolen' from what was already there, you did not invent music theory either. If you write music in a genere that already exist, well then you stole it too because you didnt think of it...point being history repeats itself, the same bullshit was said by drummers when a synth could do drums, all these instruments and all you have to learn is piano....etc etc etc.

Evolution of Technology has provided electronic music producers tons of help, so producing an edm song is a lot easier today than it was back in the 80s or 90s. Now with AI people who cannot produce music in a DAW are also able to create music and release it, further diluting every single platform. It's even harder for genuine musicians and producers to get heard unless they have a good marketing/promotion strategy

Icing on the cake
I sing on the keg

Hi Sir..! Can I use distrokid freeplan to upload my albums ?

Spotify is collapsing and will be bankrupt by the end of this year.

Those of you hating on Ai music are pushing for the mark

To make sure I don't have to listen to any AI-generated trash, I have the best AI music detector in the world: I only listen to music released before 2022.

Reality is that a lot if not most commercial music already includes some AI contributions and it's only going to grow. So aggressively labelling a song "AI generated music" is offensive and not correct on the part of Deezer - where do they draw the line and how can they even know? Oh, they let an AI do it....

LOL! Analogue, mediocre artists are scared of AI. They were never good at music creation from the beginning. The gatekeepers are running scared because AI is a powerhouse for music innovation and unfathomable creativity that is NOW accessible to ANYONE who has a good EAR for music and without the need for a costly, physical studio. Music creation is being democratized where TASTE takes precedence OVER technical access to physical studios and instruments. I welcome the day when AI artists will produce music that is so awesome and mind-boggling, the analogue music community will throws its hands up and say, "We just can't compete with this new technology that is turning out wonderfully crafted, hit after hit."

The problem isn’t AI. it’s people who think they’re artists and feel the need to release five albums with 15 songs each in a single year.
You just have to limit AI "artists" when it comes to monetization. maybe cap it at 15 songs per year. Then they’ll actually take the time to think about whether what they’re making has any real value.

Detection tools will probably become good enough soon to tell whether something was entirely generated by AI or whether a human actually contributed to parts of the work in a DAW.
There are many musicians who have been making music for decades and have thrown away countless tracks because they have a certain artistic standard.

AI is great for people who are genuinely creative and have a serious artistic ambition. not for those who just want to build a side hustle as quickly as possible to make money.

The Spotify tag isn't based on disclosure. That's how Apple works, not Spotify. The Spotify tag classes all small artists as AI. Please read the logic they use instead of making videos based on vibes.

why does it matter to people if they fall in love with a song and then realize its ai. just love the dam song. we need to get over this shit.

I make electronic sort of techno. I don't mind AI as a tool, such as plugins like Ozone. In terms of stuff like Suno and all that, I think it's here and not going anywhere. I considered trying it once, but ended up leaving because it made a track that sounded pretty good to me, but I heard weird artifacts, and it was doing things with the synth that I've never learned how to do myself. So for me, I'm gonna stick with making my own music and I'd rather take the time to learn more, instead of prompting for instant gratification.