I’ve used Distrokid a lot over the past 6 or so weeks to upload hundreds of AI-generated songs, made using Suno. And one thing I’ve seen, is that despite Spotify’s recent announcements around AI, I’ve never seen any kind of checkmark or a field for you to enter whether or not AI was used in the creation of the music. I personally don’t think it matters very much, because users will misuse and abuse whatever kinds of labeling and metadata is available – and because I think the hyperreality/post-reality era will prove that this kind of distinction won’t matter that much. AI will be baked into all digital systems, so literally everything will be made with, affected, or “authenticated” by some form of AI.

That said, some people might think that Distrokid ought to at least add a label option at time of upload. And that Spotify and other services who receive the releases could pick up and use that voluntary meta-data somehow. Maybe that’s “in the works,” but it’s long overdue. Distrokid could win points here around this. But in honesty, I don’t like Distrokid very much as every button, every page-scroll is riddled with some attempt at a highly unnecessary upsell based on scare-mongering. But still, they could just provide a checkmark “Yes, generative AI was used in this!”