Not Even KPop Demon Hunters Is Safe From Fake AI Slop Appearing On Its Spotify Page

A rogue AI song appeared on KPop Demon Hunter group Huntr/x’s Spotify page on Sunday, before their debut performance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Well, it seems like no one is truly safe from rogue AI songs appearing on their Spotify pages.

On Tuesday this week, ahead of the group’s performance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Kotaku reported that a new song was uploaded onto the fictional KPop Demon Hunter group, Huntr/x’s Spotify profile. Given the timing of the group’s press tour in America, following their appearances on Saturday Night Live last week and The Tonight Show earlier this week, it didn’t seem out of the ordinary for the group to release a new song.

However, on a very quick listen, it is evident that the track was no Huntr/x song and was, of course, AI slop.

The song ‘Mazatlan By Night’ appeared on the group’s Spotify page on Sunday, and quietly accumulated 6,000 streams by Tuesday. It’s surprising a new song from the group, which has held the number 1 spot for eight weeks in a row didn’t receive more fanfare, but the obvious reason why is that it isn’t a true song for the group. Fans didn’t receive a notification of the song dropping, and no promo for the track existed, making it a complete anomaly.

Of course, this is just one of many instances where a song had been incorrectly uploaded to an artist’s Spotify page to allegedly leech streams from the artist.

The copyright for AI-track, ‘the ‘Mazatlan By Night’, belongs to Diskerux Diamond, which pulls up no results when searching online.

As of yesterday, the song has been removed from Huntr/x’s page, but raises flags once again about Spotify’s poor content management system.

In July, label owners were raising the alarm that AI-generated songs had been appearing on the Spotify pages of deceased artists without alerting the companies or individuals directly responsible for managing those artists’ pages on the platform.

404 Media investigated the issue, sharing a direct statement from Spotify, which blamed SoundOn, a music distribution company owned by TikTok. SoundOn enables users to upload music directly to the platform, earning royalties from it, while also allowing them to distribute their music to other platforms.

Artists of all sizes, such as Anthrax, Oceansize, XTina.GG and more have all shared experiences of AI-generated songs appearing on their Spotify pages without them noticing. In fact, it’d be fans who would need to alert the band to the music’s presence on their page, but by then, reputational damage could have already been done.

In the case of Blaze Foley and Guy Clark, two country singers who had passed away, label managers had only discovered the new AI-generated songs on their profiles days after they were uploaded without their knowledge.

With Huntr/x having experienced the issue, it raises more concerns about how these songs are able to be uploaded to artists of all sizes with seemingly no repercussions, except for the artists who have streams leeched from them.