AI-generated music has been flooding streaming platforms for a while now. Earlier this year, Sony Music said it had requested the removal of over 135,000 AI-generated tracks impersonating its artists from Spotify and other services. Deezer recently reported that AI tracks make up around 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform daily. Spotify’s answer is a new Verified by Spotify badge, which has started rolling out . The badge shows up as a light green checkmark next to artist names in search and on their profiles. To earn it, artists need to show what Spotify calls “signals of a real artist,” covering things like concert dates, merchandise, and linked social accounts. AI personas and primarily AI-generated profiles are not eligible. Spotify says more than 99% of artists that listeners actively search for will be verified at launch. Here’s the catch: the badge confirms a profile belongs to a real human. It doesn’t confirm the music itself was made without AI assistance.…