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-September 26, 2023: Daniel EK, Spotify CEO said the company will not ban content generated using AI. He said AI could be used to improve music, mimic artist and create content that are influenced but existing artists but doesn't directly impersonate them. EK said the industry is facing a big challenge when it comes to AI. "You can imagine someone uploading a song, claiming to be Madonna, even if they're not. We've seen pretty much everything in the history of Spotify at this point with people trying to game our system," Ek said. "We have a very large team that is working on exactly these types of issues."<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66882414</ref>
+September 26, 2023: Daniel EK, Spotify CEO said the company will not completely ban content generated using AI. He said AI could be used to improve music, mimic artist and create content that are influenced but existing artists but doesn't directly impersonate them. EK said the industry is facing a big challenge when it comes to AI. "You can imagine someone uploading a song, claiming to be Madonna, even if they're not. We've seen pretty much everything in the history of Spotify at this point with people trying to game our system," Ek said. "We have a very large team that is working on exactly these types of issues."<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66882414</ref>
 September 25, 2023: Spotify is testing Voice Translation for podcasts, a feature that translates podcasts into local languages and which uses AI to mimic podcaster's voice. The company said it has worked with podcasters Dax Shepard, Monica Padman, Lex Fridman, Bill Simmons, and Steven Bartlett to come up with AI-powered voice translations in other languages such as Spanish, French, and German for some current and future podcast episodes. Spotify said that voice translations for Dax Shepard’s eff won with DRS, The Rewatchables from The Ringer, and Trevor Noah’s upcoming original podcast will soon be generated. The translated episodes will be available to both free and premium users. Spotify currently has more than 100 million regular podcast listeners<ref>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-09-25/ai-voice-translation-pilot-lex-fridman-dax-shepard-steven-bartlett/</ref>.