Spotify now gets something like 100,000 new tracks every day, and industry analysts estimate a significant chunk—up to 20%—is AI-generated or automated spam. That's the real problem: streaming platforms are built on a discovery model. When supply becomes infinite and nearly costless, it drowns out the finite, costly signal of human curation. It's a classic tragedy of the commons. The math doesn't work for royalties either. Streaming payouts already favor massive catalogs, and AI only accelerates the flood. Real artists get buried under a mountain of technically-flawless but emotionally worthless content. And there's a practical engineering angle: their fraud detection systems are already overwhelmed. They can't tell a human fan trying to game the algorithm from a bot farm generating 10,000 tracks a night. You end up with a platform optimized for volume instead of quality. That's not a feature, that's a design flaw.

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