How Spot if AI works
Spot if AI estimates how likely it is that a music act on Spotify is AI-generated. It is not an audio “AI detector” and it does not listen to the music. It is an evidence aggregator: it collects public facts about the artist, hands them to a probabilistic model, and computes a deterministic score from the result. Every signal on a result page links to the source it came from, so you can check it yourself.
What we look at
| Signal | Source | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Release behaviour | MusicBrainz, Spotify | Eighty singles in six months is a pattern of upload accounts, not of touring bands. It is a signal, not proof. |
| Catalogue shape | Spotify | Singles-only, metronomic cadence, templated titles, uniform track lengths, DIY distributor labels. |
| Documented history | MusicBrainz, Wikipedia | Links to Discogs, Songkick, Wikidata, interviews and a first release year are what real careers leave behind. |
| AI-artist registries | SlopTracker | Third-party lists of confirmed AI acts. Strong, but not first-party. |
| Press and web presence | Google results (via Serper) | Articles naming Suno/Udio, admissions (“the band confirms it is AI”), the act’s own bio, interviews, live listings. Style references (“make a song like X on Suno”) and anti-AI coverage are filtered out. |
How the number is made
The collected facts go to a probabilistic classifier (TypeSafe’s Jev model) that returns probabilities and an evidence strength from 0 to 4. The final AI-risk score is computed by fixed, published weights in our code — the model interprets, it does not decide. We show probability and evidence strength separately on purpose: 80% on weak evidence is a hint; 80% on direct evidence is a finding. Below evidence strength 3 we word results as “signals”, not verdicts, and ask search engines not to index the page.
What it does not mean
- A high score does not prove that music was made with AI. It means the public record looks like that of AI-generated acts.
- A low score does not certify a human. Established artists may use AI tools without saying so.
- Nothing here is a statement about quality, legality or the people behind an act.
Mistakes and disputes
We will get some artists wrong — particularly new independent acts with little public footprint, which is exactly what the “insufficient evidence” label is for. If a page about you or your act is wrong, write to amirov@larixon.com with a link to the source that shows it (live dates, an interview, a label page). We correct errors and re-run the analysis; results are cached for up to 30 days, so a correction can take that long to appear everywhere unless we clear it by hand.
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