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Odette Child

Musical group that also documents and publicises AI-generated releases uploaded under other artists' names on streaming services.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

Typing a band's name into DistroKid published an AI track to its verified Spotify page

404 Media paid $3.75 for a DistroKid account, typed Lathe of Heaven into the artist field and checked two boxes swearing it owned the music. A day later the AI track was live on the band's real pages at five services.

Publishers:404media.co

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption52
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence70

product1 publisher

404 Media put an AI track on a real band's Spotify page by claiming to be the band

The upload path takes the submitter's word for which artist a release belongs to, so an AI track lands on the real band's catalog page and pays whoever filed it. Spotify's release-review tool has been in limited beta since March.

Publishers:engadget.com

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption38
Hype gap+24
Incentives60
Confidence57