Overview
- Lorde posted an Instagram Story on Thursday that tagged Spotify and said an AI‑generated blurb for her song misidentified a staged ‘shower’ moment and wrongly attributed it to the track Current Affairs.
- Spotify confirmed it removed the offending text, described About the Song as a beta feature, and said it will improve the tool based on feedback from artists and listeners.
- About the Song compiles short summaries by scraping third‑party articles, a process that appears to have pulled copy from an Australian outlet in this case and was later edited to cite a different source.
- Artists have pushed back against automated summaries because they can spread factual errors and impose single interpretations of songs, a worry voiced by Lorde and other musicians such as SZA.
- The episode raises pressure on Spotify to offer artists control or an opt‑out, and it highlights a broader industry debate about the accuracy of AI‑sourced context and who gets to shape how music is presented to listeners.