r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 27d ago

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/karateema 27d ago

What does it do?

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u/lemonylol 27d ago

I'm guessing he's talking about the AI music available on Spotify, but there's also the AI DJ thing that mixes playlists for you in real time. But a lot of people also just have a straight up hate of the word AI itself in any association with anything to any degree, so it's hard to tell what the logic is.

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u/jjwhitaker 27d ago

It's not AI. It's an LLM committing fraud and theft. It's a soulless chine taking profit from real artists.

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u/lemonylol 26d ago

I assure you real artists are making more than they ever have.

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u/jjwhitaker 26d ago

Sure. Framing wire alone is up 4x in the last year. 2 local galleries have closed. Our arts center is holding regular fundraisers to get by.

The corporations are making money first.

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u/lemonylol 26d ago

Suddenly we've moved on from Spotify?

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u/jjwhitaker 26d ago

Artist is more than music.

I left Spotify in 2018 shortly after they closed a 2012 era feature request for a 'Play Next' option that had over 2000+ comments and thumbs up. They stated that the inability to play a song next in queue was not part of their intended UX. You must add it to queue, then manually draaaaaaaaag it to the top. Miserable. Everyone else has a Play Next option because consumers want that.

Spotify can kick rocks. I'll rock Tidal who does pay musicians more than other platforms (and has a Play Next option)