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‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify
TechnologyEntertainmentMusicMusic News•April 11, 2026 at 1:00 PMNational

‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify

By Dara Kerr•The Guardian Music

Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged itJason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend last month. The friend, bassist Burniss Earl Travis, was curious about Moran’s new record that he saw on the music streaming service Spotify.“It has your name on it,” Travis told him. “But I don’t think it’s you.” Continue reading...

Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged it

Jason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend last month. The friend, bassist Burniss Earl Travis, was curious about Moran’s new record that he saw on the music streaming service Spotify.

“It has your name on it,” Travis told him. “But I don’t think it’s you.”

Continue reading...

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