2025-09-26 15:34:15
Bon Iver Side Project's Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song
A new single titled "Silkymoon Light" appeared on Volcano Choir's Spotify page without announcement,疑似由AI生成,质量低劣。该单曲与Volcano Choir此前的作品风格迥异,并且其专辑艺术作品也看起来像是AI生成的产物。尽管Spotify最近宣布了打击此类“垃圾内容”的新政策,但此事件表明平台仍在努力应对AI伪造问题。随后,Spotify移除了该歌曲并表示正在采取措施防止类似攻击。
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Longtime fans of Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon will recall Volcano Choir, an acclaimed side project he spearheaded in the 2000s and early 2010s that hasnât released an album since 2013âs âRepave.â
Suddenly interrupting that long dormancy is a
new single
titled âSilkymoon Light,â which appeared on Volcano Choirâs Spotify page this week with no fanfare from the band or its label.
The only issue? The track bears all of the hallmarks of cheaply-produced AI slop, featuring no intro and diving straight into a cheesy and forgettable country-inflected ballad. It features a robotic-sounding voice with only a distant resemblance to Vernonâs distinctive vocals.
âOur love will always find a way,â the voice sings in the track, in an almost mockingly poor imitation of Vernonâs musical caliber.
The album art also looks suspiciously AI-generated, featuring a Moon with a smaller Moon in the background, as well as the overall shellacked look characteristic of AI slop.
Volcano Choirâs most recent album, titled âRepave,â was released in September 2013 and the group has been on hiatus since the
end of its last tour
in November 2014. Bon Iver and Vernon have remained in the public view with a series of widely-praised releases and collaborations with artists including Taylor Swift and Travis Scott.
Ironically, the news comes just days after Spotify
officially admitted
it was being overrun by AI âslop.â The platform announced
new policies
to protect artists against âspam, impersonation, and deception.â
The company also made headlines earlier this year after a self-proclaimed âindie rock bandâ called
The Velvet Sundown
racked up
millions of streams
, which later turned out to be an entirely AI-generated â
hoax
.â
âAt its worst, AI can be used by bad actors and content farms to confuse or deceive listeners, push âslopâ into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers,â the company wrote in a
press release
this week. âThat kind of harmful AI content degrades the user experience for listeners and often attempts to divert royalties to bad actors.â
To combat AI slop, the company said itâs looking to roll out a new spam filter that can detect common tactics used by spammers to game Spotifyâs royalties system.
But judging by Volcano Choirâs latest ârelease,â the company is still struggling to combat a deluge of AI trickery: beyond the fact that whoeverâs behind the track managed to get it featured on Volcano Choirâs official artist profile, thereâs no indication that it was produced using AI.
Spotify isnât the only platform to be duped, though. The single also currently features on Volcano Choirâs profile on
Tidal
and
Deezer
â though not Apple Music, interestingly.
After we reached out to Spotify with questions about the suspicious single, the company removed the track from Volcano Choirâs page.
âWeâre aware of this issue and have removed the content,â a Spotify spokesperson told us in a statement. âThat change should be reflected on the platform soon. Across the music industry, AI is accelerating many of the problems that already exist â e.g. spam, fraud, and deceptive content â which is why we recently announced new policies aimed at making Spotify a more transparent, fair, and trustworthy platform for artists and listeners.â
âBecause music flows through a complex supply chain of labels and distributors, bad actors can sometimes exploit gaps in the system to push incorrect content onto artist profiles,â the statement continued. âWeâre testing new prevention tactics with leading artist distributors to equip them to better stop these attacks at the source, and investing more resources into our content mismatch process, reducing the wait time for review, and enabling artists to report âmismatchâ even in the pre-release state.â
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