Spotify will not ban AI-made music, says boss

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The boss of Spotify says he has no plans to completely ban content created by artificial intelligence from the music streaming platform.

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While AI is not banned in all forms on the platform the company does not allow its content to be used to train a machine learning or AI model, the likes of which can then produce music.

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