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Spotify rolls out Verified badges to flag human artists amid AI music flood

Spotify is granting Verified badges to vetted human artists. The context is a flood of AI-generated tracks — community reports suggest roughly 85% of AI music streams are bot-driven inflation. The approach has critics, however: it certifies the account behind a release as human but does not label individual songs as AI-generated, and a verified human artist can still upload AI tracks while recommendation algorithms ignore the distinction. For readers: this is the first major platform-level response to the AI-music deluge, but the per-song labeling and opt-out filters that critics want are absent in this version.